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'Sweetbriar' rose References
Book  (1988)  Page(s) 26, 27.  
 
Page 26: 'Sweetbriar' was used by Wilhelm Kordes to breed in hardiness.
Page 27: fragrant foliage
Book  (1988)  Page(s) 18.  Includes photo(s).
Book  (1984)  Page(s) 342.  
 
rubiginosa L. (eglanteria L. not MILL.). "Sweet Briar"; "Eglantine". A strong growing, medium-sized shrub with stout, erect, densely prickly and glandular stems. The deliciously aromatic leaves are composed of five to seven rounded leaflets and the clear pink, fragrant, beautifully formed flowers, 3 to 4cm. across. stud the arching branches during summer. Fruits bright red, oval, lasting well into winter. A lovely native species famed for its fragrance both of flower and foliage. It makes a pleasant but vigorous hedge. Europe. It is a parent of innumerable hybrids and has given rise to several hundred forms, few of which are now in cultivation. Please see our Rose Catalogue under Lord Penzance's Briars. A.M. 1975.
Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 32.  
 

Rosa Eglanteria (Common Sweet Briar) Small, solitary, pale pink flowers. Scented foliage. Before 1550. F. W.  Shade tolerant. H. (S) 6 x 4’.

Book  (1982)  Page(s) 43.  
 
Michale Gibson. Wild Roses of Britain.....
Book  (1981)  Page(s) 88.  
 
R. eglanteria L.
Erect bush with arching branches 6 to 8 feet high, armed with numerous, scattered hooked prickles. Leaflets 5, 7 or sometimes 9, ovate or roundish, compoundly toothed, nearly glabrous above, glandular beneath. Pale pink flower 1½ inches, singly, in 3's, 7's or more. Pedicel and sepals bristly-glandular. Styles hairy. Hips bright red, ovoid, with persistent sepals.
Native to Europe and N. Africa. Distinguished by sweet fragrance of leaves.
Book  (1978)  Page(s) 219.  
 
R. eglanteria.  Taller. Light pink. Midsummer. Perfume 10. Hips 7.   
The Sweet Briar, the Eglantine;  Pemberton was fond of reminding us that the children in Essex called it Sweet Maria, to rhyme presumedly with Briar.  The botanical name for many years was less romantic: R. rubiginosa, which means rust coloured, and refers to its glandular hairs. The name R. rubiginosa came through a rare mistake by Linnaeus, who transferred the original name R. rubiginosa to ‘Austrian Yellow‘; and after many years, we have got back the old name as is right and proper having regard to its place in the poetry of the English language. Maybe ‘Austrian Yellow’ will be treated with similar kindness in the future.
The Sweet Briar’s charm is the scent from its leaves, diffused when the glands are bruised, especially after a shower of rain. Miss Willmott informs us in The Genus Rosa that this perfume is not easily captured from the leaves: ‘the water distilled from them yields a perfume far from agreeable unless mixed with some other ingredient.’  It is certain that one Sweet Briar in a small garden, even from an inconspicuous position, can spread its pleasant aroma over the little property in a most agreeable way.
The plant is similar to the Dog Rose; it is more prickly, the leaves are not quite so large, the flowers are usually more pink. When I used to go ‘briaring’, that is getting standard stems from R. canina in the countryside, I learnt the easiest way to distinguish R. canina from R. eglanteria in the middle of winter. The Sweet Briar is the one with the hips left on it, for the birds prefer the taste of the Dog Rose. 
R. eglanteria has been used as a rootstock in Europe, and is probably the first species to have been taken for that purpose. I cannot say I liked it very much, from what I saw of the Sweet Briars which turned up among our stocks of R. canina, due to promiscuous seed gathering in Europe. It is prickly, and fond of making a tap root, which at least had the advantage of going down deep, and thus earned the species a reputation of being a useful stock in soil where roses had been grown for a long time.
(Jan 1976)  Page(s) 26-30, vol. 18, no. 1.  
 
Biologia Plantarum 
Effect of calcium and sucrose concentration on pollen germination in vitro of six Rosa species
Marie N. Končalová, Dagmar Jičínská, Olga Sýkorov
The stimulating effect of calcium was generally most pronounced in the pollen from roses of hybrid nature, such as R. jundzillii, R. canina, and especially in the case of the calciphilous species R. eglanteria.
Book  (1972)  Page(s) 30.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa rubiginosa L. Sweet Briar. R. eleganteria auct. [author]  Leaflets roundly oval, very glandular below and scented; pedicels short, glandular hispid; fr. hispid; sepals persistent; flo usually deep pink. Mostly on calcareous soils. Flo. June-July.
Magazine  (May 1966)  Page(s) 2. trimester, p. 20.  
 
Tableau Récapitulatif des différents Porte-Greffes
Rosa rubiginosa; Origine: Europe; Multiplication: Semis; Greffage: - ; Terrain: pas trop de calcaire; Température: pas de températures excessifs; Humidité: - ; Vigueur: faible; Longevité: Faible; Resistance aux maladies: Faible; Formes améliorées: - ; Races ou formes préferentielles: Roses miniatures; Lieu d'utilisation: Hollande

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