Book  (1988)  Page(s) 64, 65.  Includes photo(s).
 
Page 64: [Photo]
Page 65: [Photo]

Website/Catalog  (1985)  Page(s) 18.  
 
Muscosa rosea, rose

Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 32.  
 
Rosa Centifolia muscosa As R. Centifolia, but with buds and stems heavily mossed.

Article (website)  (1982)  Page(s) 13.  
 
Common Moss (Moss). (Old Pink Moss). (Communis).  A well mossed rose of clear pink with an outstandingly strong perfume.  Pre 1700.  (S). 5 x 4’.

Book  (1978)  Page(s) 183.  

Magazine  (Nov 1976)  Page(s) 4. trimester, p. 16,19.  Includes photo(s).
 
De ce groupe sont nés accidentellement , les rosiers mousseux (Rosa gallica centifolia muscosa). Identiques aux Centfeuilles , ces rosiers se caractérisent par la présence sur le pédoncule , le calice et les sépales d'un tissu mousseux glanduleux et légèrement visqueux , agréablement parfumé lorsqu'on le froisse . Ses fleurs rose clair sont très belles . ......Else Thykier, Skorrebrovejen, 3720 Aakirkeby, Danmark

Book  (1971)  Page(s) 107.  
 
"Notes on the Origin of the Moss Rose", C.C. Hurst:
...There is, however, in Ducastel (1746), quoted by Paquet (1845) and Jamain and Forney (1873), a circumstantial account of the existence of the Moss Rose in the south of France, at Carcassonne, as far back as 1696, and this appears to be the earliest date mentioned for the existence of the Moss Rose. The account is that the Hundred-Leaved Moss Rose was in cultivation in Cotentin, Messin, and La Manche in 1746, and that it was brought there by Fréard Ducastel, who had found it at Carcassonne, where it had been known for half a century.
The first botanical reference to the Moss Rose is apparently that of Boerhave (1720) in his Index of Plants cultivated in the Physic Garden at Leyden under the name Rosa rubra plena spinosissima, pedunculo muscosa. In 1724, the Moss Rose is said to have been in cultivation in London, for Miller (1724) states that it is included in Robert Furber's Catalogue of Plants cultivated for sale at Kensington. Miller (1760) tells us that he first saw the Moss Rose 'in the year 1727, in the garden of Dr. Boerhave near Leyden, who was so good as to give me one of the plants'.

Book  (1971)  Page(s) 114.  
 
"Notes on the Origin of the Moss Rose", C.C. Hurst:
...Further confirmation of the origin of the Moss Rose may be found in the interesting fact that twelve of the distinct bud variations of the Old Moss Rose which appeared between 1788 and 1832 have precise parallels in twelve bud-variations of the Old cabbage Rose which appeared between 1637 and 1813, the only difference between them being the presence and absence of 'Moss' respectively. This can only be due to their facttorial composition in all respects except the presence or absence of the 'Moss' factor...

Magazine  (Aug 1966)  Page(s) 3. trimester, p. 20.  Includes photo(s).
 
Common Moss [watercolor by Lotte Günthart]

Book  (1962)  Page(s) 10-11.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa centifolia L. var. Muscosa - The Moss rose is one of the most curious, as the pedicels and the sepals are covered with moss-like green to brownish red, fragrant outgrowths. Her wonderful buds expand to large, globular, densely filled blooms, from which a delicious fragrance emanates. In their special attractive habit, they remind us vividly of the times of our grandparents and great-grandparents, to whom this rose was nearer. She was cultivated since the seventeenth century mainly in England and Holland, and it is told that it was Madame de Genlis who brought this rose towards the end of the eighteenth century from England to France.She exists in various forms, which can still be seen in old gardens. The best are still propagated, such as Blanche Moreau, pure white, Muscosa rosea, soft pink, and Deuil de Paul Fontaine, deep purple-red.