Magazine  (Oct 1881)  Page(s) 151.  
 
Rosa berberifolia. — L'année dernière, M. Sisley, le rosiériste bien connu, avait envoyé quelques akènes du Rosa berberifolia, Pall., au jardin botanique dc Bruxelles. L'un de ces akènes à heuresement germé et la jeune plante a déjà une taille de 15 centimètres. Cette espèce était devenue extrémement rare dans les cultures européennes et peut-être en avait-elle complètement disparu. Sa culture paraît très difficile, ce qui tient vraisemblablement aux conditions spéciales de son lieu d'origine : Perse occidentale , terrain souvent salé. Les caractères particuliers de cette rose, c'est a dire, des feuilies simples et des pétales pourvus d'une macule nectarifère à la base, ont permis d'en constituer un genre distinct du genre Rosa, sous le nom de Hulthemia. Charles De Bosschere.

Book  (1858)  Page(s) 134-135.  
 
Rosa berberifolia (Pall), (R. simplicifolia Salisb). Vaterland: Persien, Blüthezeit der Sommer – Stengel 2' hoch, gleich den Blumenstielen, Kelchen und dem kugeligen Fruchtknoten stachlig. Blätter einfach, fast stiellos, ei-lanzettförmig, spitz, stark gesägt, blau, graugrün. Blumen einzeln, prächtig, einfach, glänzend gelb, am Grunde der Kronblätter dunkelpurpurroth gefleckt. Obgleich dieser Rose wegen ihrer Schönheit eine größere Verbreitung gebührte, so findet man sie doch sehr selten in den Gärten, welcher Umstand ihrer schwierigen Vermehrung zuzuschreiben ist. In Frankreich veredelt man auf hohe, wilde Rosen, allein ihre Lebensdauer ist leider nicht lang. Vielleicht gewährt das Copuliren auf die Wurzeln junger Stämme der R.canina einen günstigeren Erfolg. Sie erfordert eine lockere, nahrhafte Erde und muß in einem frostfreien (bei 1 – 5^o Wärme) Locale überwintert werden.

Translation:
Rosa berberifolia (Pall), (R. simplicifolia Salisb). Motherland: Persia, flowering time in summer - stem 2' high, prickly like the flower stalks, calyxes and the spherical ovary. Leaves simple, almost stalkless, ovate-lanceolate, pointed, strongly serrated, blue, gray-green. Flowers solitary, magnificent, simple, shiny yellow, mottled dark purple-red at the base of the petals. Although this rose deserves wider distribution because of its beauty, it is very rarely found in gardens, which is due to its difficult propagation. In France, it is garfted on tall wild roses, but unfortunately their lifespan is not long. Perhaps oculating on the roots of young strains of R. canina offers a more favorable result. It requires loose, nutritious soil and must be overwintered in a frost-free (at 1 - 5^o temperature) location.
 

Magazine  (Jun 1848)  Page(s) 63.  
 
Rosa berberifolia, Pallas; Roos met Berberis of Sausboomenblad; oorspronkelijk uit de Noordelijke deelen van Perzië en Tartarije, alwaar zij in zoo groote menigte voorkomt, dat men er takkebossen van maakt om de ovens, enz. te stoken, in onze luchtstreek echter is zij zeer teêr van aard, althans men treft haar hoogst zeldzaam in de tuinen aan, overigens verdient zij ook in geene verdere aanmerking te komen dan om de aardigheid en uitloopendheid van het gewas, want op den eersten oogopslag, zou men haar geenszins voor eene roos aanmerken. Zij bloeit in het begin van Junij met kleine enkele bloemen, helder geel met hoogroode stipjes op de punten der bloemblade naamde Cistus of veldroosjes.

Translation:
Rosa berberifolia, Pallas; Rose with Berberis or Sauce Tree Leaves; originally from the northern parts of Persia and Tartary, where it is found in such great abundance that they are made into groves to fuel ovens, etc., but in our region it is very delicate in nature, or at least it is very rare to find it in the gardens, but it deserves no further consideration than the niceness and variety of the crop, because at first glance one would in no way regard it as a rose. It blooms in early June with small single flowers, bright yellow with bright red dots on the tips of the petals, called Cistus or field roses.

Book  (1842)  Page(s) 263.  
 
R. Berberifólia Pall., Red. et Thor. Ros. 1. Lindl. Ros. 1. Barberry-leaved Rose; R. simplicifol. Salisb. - Persia. Summer. Stems 2' tall, prickly like the pedicels, calyx and the globular ovaries. Foliage single, almost without stalks, ovoid-lanceolate, acuminate, strongly serrated, blue-grey-green. Blooms solitary, magnificent, single, glossy yellow, flecked dark purple-red at the base of the petals. In Liège, Ghent, Paris; Hamburg.
The difficult propagation of this beautiful rose is perhaps the reason for its rarity. In France she is grafted on to tall wild rose stems; hoever such examples do not endure for long and do not last for long in gardens. Perhaps copulation ion the roots of young canes of R. canina would be preferable. They are planted into loose, nutritious soil and wintered at 1-5^o.

Website/Catalog  (1834)  Page(s) 111.  
 
House plants...
Rosa berberifolia...0-4 [plants]

Book  (1833)  Page(s) p. 20, tab 370.  Includes photo(s).
 
ROSA BERBERIFOLIA. Tab. CCCLXX.
R. foliis abortu nullis, stipulis connatis foliiformibus glabris, aculeis stipularibus geminis.
Hab. non rara in sterilibus subsalsis deserti soongoro-kirghisici trans fl. Irtysch, rarior occurrit cis fl. Irtysch in deserto soongoro-kirghisico inter mont. Arkaul et lacum, qui Noor-Saisan vocatur, ubi Majo florere incipit fructusque maturat Augusto et Septembri.
Explic. Icon. CCCLXX. — a) Petalum m. n. b) Fructus m. n. c) Idem longitudinaliter dissectus m. n. d) Carpellum singulare m. n.

Translation:
Rose with foliage aborted missing, stipules united glabrous leaf-shaped, twin stipular prickles. Habitat not rare in the barren sub-salt Soongoro-Kirghiz desert across the river Irtysch, occurs more rarely beyond this river Irtysch in the Soongoro-Kirghiz desert valley. Arkaul and the lake called Noor-Saisan, where blooms begin in May and the fruit ripens in August and September.

Magazine  (1830)  Page(s) 51.  
 
On a coutume de rapporter aux feuilles composées les feuilles dites unifoliolées, parce qu’elles n'offrent qu’une seule foliole, mais qui est articulée au sommet du pétiole. Celles du Rosa berberifolia, par exemple, quoique formées d’une foliole unique et terminale, sont considérées comme des feuilles composées dont les folioles latérales sont avortées. Cette considération s’appuie sur l'analogie de l'espèce en question avec les autres espèces de Roses, qui sont toutes à feuilles composées.

Magazine  (1829)  Page(s) Tab 1261, Vol. 15.  
 
Lowea berberifolia Berberry-leaved Lowea**
LOWEA. — Folia simplicia exstipulata. Aculei saepiùs compositi. Cœtera Rosœ.
Lowea berberifolia.
Rosa simplicifolia. Salisb. hort. allert. 359. Parad. Lond. 101. Olivier voyage 5. 49. abl. t. 43.
R. berberifolia. Pallas in nov. act. Petr. 10. 379. t. 10. /. 5. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1063. Ait. Kew. ed. alt. 3. 258. Smith in Rees in I. Redouté ros. 1. 27. t. 2. Lindley Rosarum monogr. p. 1. ed. gall. p. 23. Decand. prodr. 2. 602. Spreng, syst. 2. 546. Wallroth monogr. p. 25.
This rare plant is a native exclusively of a few district in the north of Persia, and of the desert of Songari in Chinese Tartary. From the latter place we possess specimens collected by Shankin, an officer employed by the Russian government in surveying the province; and of the former, the plate that accompanies this article is a representation. It was taken from a plant that flowered in August 1828, in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, where it has been raised from seed sent home by Sir Henry Willock.
The Persian plant differs in some respects from the Songarese one, especially in being more glaucous; and the plants raised from the Persian seed of Mr. Willock varied among each other in several slight particulars,-none of which, however, were of any interest in a Botanical point of view.
The two most important topics connect with it relate, firstly, to its genus, and, secondly, to its cultivation. In the latter respect no more appears to be known now than was known upon its first introduction. It resists cultivation in a remarkable manner, submitting permanently neither to budding, nor grafting, nor laying, nor striking from cuttings; not, in short, to any of those operations, one or other of which succeeded with other plants. Drought does not suit it, it does not thrive in wet; heat has no beneficial effect, cold no prejudicial influence; care does not improve it, neglect does not injure it. Of all the numerous seedlings that were raised by the Horticultural Society from Mr. Willock's seeds, and distributed, scarcely a plant remains alive. Two are still growing in a peat border in the Chiswick Garden; but they are languishing and unhealthy; and we confess, that observation of them in a living state for nearly four years has not suggested a single method of improving the cultivation of the species.
As to its genus, it is well known, that since the days of Linneaus the characters of the genera of flowering plants have been exclusively taken from the organs of fructification, while those of vegetation have been rigorously exluded. This has arisen from the former having been supposed in all cases more constant in their modications, and less subject to variation than the latter. No other reason can be assigned for the value thus exclusively ascribed to the organs of fructification. It is, however, time that Botanists shouls disembarrass themselves of this ancient prejudice, and admit publicaly that by which they are constantly influence in private -"that important modifications of the orgns of vegetation are sufficient to divide into genra, species which do not essentially differ in the organs of fructification.
Of this the Indian Cypripediums are one instance, the genus Negundium is another, and the subject of this article is a third. The structure of its flower is in every respect that of a Rose ; but its foliage is not even that of a Rosaceous plant, there being no trace of stipulœ. The simple leaves are not analogous to the terminal pinna of a rose-leaf, for there is no trace of the articulation upon their petiole, which is required to indicate a reduction of a compound leaf, as we find in Berberís; neither can they be considered confluent stipulœ, for their venation is not what would be found under such circumstances, but precisely that of an ordinary leaf. J. L. [John Lindley]
**Named in compliment to the Rev. Mr. Lowe, travelling Bachelor of the University of Cambridge; a gentleman now resident in Madeira, from whose Botanical investigations of that island we expect important results.

Book  (1828)  Page(s) Vol. III, pl. 1.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa berberifolia
[Text as in 1817 Edition, followed by notes of Pirolle:]
Ce rosier, à tiges et rameaux grêles et penchés, intéresse beaucoup par la rareté de ses feuilles simples, comme p a r l a beauté de ses jolies fleurs, qui rappellent celles du Coreopsis elegans. Il croît assez bien et rapidement, avec quelques soins, en terre de bruyère , mieux dans une plate-bande, bonne exposition, que dans un pot : mais il faut le garantir, l'hiver, comme les bengales les plus délicats.
II reprend très facilement de marcottes. On le multiplie avec non moins de succès, par la greffe en écusson, sur bengale : c'est même le moyen de le mettre plus sûrement et plus vite à fleurs. On voit dans ce moment, 3o mai 1828, au Luxembourg, nn individu greffé l'année dernière, qui présente des fleurs; tandis que dans le vieux pied et les marcottes, quoique cultivés avec les mêmes circonstances, les organes de la floraison sont à peine prononcés.
Nous ne connaissons, jusqu'à ce jour, que le rosier Berberifolia à feuilles simples. Les cultivateurs commerçans et autres, s'ils peuvent en obtenir de la graine naturellement ou artificiellement, parviendront peut-être à lui devoir des variétés plus ou moins intéressantes. Il se peut aussi que les voyageurs naturalistes en découvrent d'autres aussi à feuilles simples ; et alors, ces rosiers, variétés ou espèces, prendraient place dans ce premier groupe que leur a destiné l'auteur. P. [Pirolle]

Website/Catalog  (1826)  Page(s) 58.  
 
ROSA berberidæfolia.