Book  (1966)  Page(s) 45.  
 
The species R. eglanteria grows wild in many places in Europe. It is called the Apple Rose because the young shoots and leaves give off a very fine and pleasant scent of ripe apples, particularly when rubbed or after rain. The bushes can be grown to form a hedge or thicket as cover for a slope, and they provide suitable nesting sites for small birds.

Magazine  (Jul 1950)  Page(s) 3. trimester, p. 70.  
 
[From the article "Les Portes-Greffes du Rosier" by André Leroy, pp. 68-74]
Le R. Rubiginosa (Linné) très employé en Hollande et dans le Nord de la France est également très caractérisé.

Book  (Jan 1946)  Page(s) 31.  
 
R. eglanteria, L. (R. rubiginosa). The sweetbrier was brought to Canda by early British and United Empire Loyalist settlers. It forms a much branched bushy shrub five to six feet tall with bright pink flowers followed by orange-red oval fruits. It is chiefly grown for the fragrance of its foliage.

Book  (1944)  Page(s) 458-459.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa rubiginosa L. Sweetbrier. Fig. 2502.
Rosa rubiginosa L. Mant. 2: 564. 1771.
Rosa micrantha Borrer ex Smith, Engl. Bot. pi. 2490. 1813.
Rosa suaveolens Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 346. 1814.
Rosa Walpoleana Greene, Leaflets Bot. Obs. 2: 264. 1912.

Stems branched, 1.5-2.5 m. high, often forming long wands, armed with stout flat recurved prickles. Stipules glandular-ciliate ; rachis of the leaves pubescent and glandular and often sparsely prickly; leaflets 5-7, usually doubly serrate, densely glandular-pubescent and resinous beneath, very aromatic ; flowers pink to white ; hypanthium smooth or often with a few prickles ; sepals lanceolate, usually laciniately lobed, spreading, deciduous; fruit ovoid, 12-18 mm. long.
Pastures and waste places; western Washington to northwestern California, especially abundant in western Oregon. Naturalized from Europe. The Eglantine of Chaucer and Shakespeare. May-July.

Website/Catalog  (1942)  Page(s) 25.  
 
Species Roses
R. Rubiginosa—The oft-sung Eglanteria, the Sweetbriar rose, with foliage delightfully scented like ripe apples. Four to six feet... $1.00

Book  (1939)  Page(s) 179.  
 
Key to the Species
Sepals, styles and upper part of the hypanthium persistent on the fruit; pistils numerous.
- Hypanthium normally smooth and glabrous.
-- Stems with stout prickles, rarely slender and weak in some segregates of R. californica; sepals often prolonged into foliaceous appendages; plats 2 to 10 feet high.
--- Prickles straight or nearly so, more or less flattened below, often ascending; stipules, rachis, and leaflets glandular....1. R. nutkana.
--- Prickles usually curved, or straight in some segragates of R. californica.
---- Pedicels glandular-hispid or bristly, the bristles often 1/8-inch long; sepals glandular-hispid, often pinnatifid....3. R. rubiginosa.
---- Pedicels usually not glandular-hispid-or bristly, sometimes glandular,; sepals often villous, not pinnatifid, but usually serrate....4. R. californica.

Book  (1939)  Page(s) 61.  
 
Frank Mason, NZ.  Species and Hybrids.
The English Dog Rose will suit many of them, and seedlings from it are also useful, but here again they vary considerably. The plant I have was collected from an English hedge and flowers quite freely, but was never really happy until it was put into a hedge and cut with it. The scent of it is very nice, especially on a warm evening when it is going to rain. 

Book  (1937)  Page(s) 69.  
 
eglanteria L. (Can.-Rubig.) [ploidy]35 ([thereof univalents:] 21)

Book  (1937)  Page(s) 77.  
 
rubiginosa L. (synonym of eglanteria L. )[pollen quality] 0% [ploidy] 35 ([thereof univalents:] 21)

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 107, 652, 690.  
 
p. 107: Briar, Sweet (hybrid rubiginosa) = R. rubiginosa L; R. eglanteria

p. 652: Schottische Zaunrose = R. rubiginosa.

p. 690: Sweet Briar (hybrid rubiginosa) in England before 1759; different forms: Common; Double red, red, double; Double blush, pink to light red, double; Double white, white, double. Evergreen, evergreen habit; Yellow, yellow.