Magazine  (1894)  Page(s) 19, 74.  
 
p. 19: Rugosa America, distributed by G. Paul & Son, turns out to be an American fraud, as far as we unfortunately had the opportunity to see. We do not believe that we will find something better than our old rugosa rosea (Regeliana) in it.

p. 74: [From "East Asian roses in Germany", a lecture of Court Marshall von St. Paul, Fischbach]
I must mention another Hybrid Rugosa, America,  which I received from Peter Lambert. Paul & Sons, Cheshunt, which distribute this variety in Europe, wrote to me that they received this Rose from the Garden of the University of Harvard, as a "species from the Rocky Mountains". Now, I have a brisk correspondence with this garden, the so-called Arnold-Arboretum; they do not know of any Rose rugosa from the Rockies. Mr. Dawson, however, the chief gardener, is a zealous rose breeder - the Dawson-Rose (Rosa multiflora X General Jacqueminot is from him) - it is therefore posible that America, which was thus christened only in England, could be one of his hybrids. We shall find out soon, as I have enquired at the appropriate places.