Book  (1917)  Page(s) 37.  
 
Mr. H. R. Darlington.  Some Early-Flowering Species of Roses.
R. Fedtschenkoana is a beautiful species from Turkestan. It is a tall grower with very glaucous foliage and white flowers, sometimes solitary, sometimes three or four together. The white flowers look particularly well against the grey foliage. It was, I believe, first described by Doctor Regel, of St. Petersburgh, who noticed the resemblance of the foliage in shape to that of the spinosissimae, the leaves have usually nine leaflets rather oval in shape and finally toothed, and there is usually a pair of slender stipular thorns at the base of each leaf; sometimes, especially towards the top of the branches, there is only one thorn at the leaf base. These stipular thorns in pairs seem to point to affinity with some of the cinnamomeae.  Dr Ragel, describes these stipular thorns as straight, but in my limited experience I think I may say that most of those I have seen have been slightly hooked, or sickle shaped. Dr Regel describes four varieties of this rose, and even in cultivated forms some differences appear; thus some are greener and some more grey than others. Where selection is possible those with the most glaucous grey foliage should be chosen.

Magazine  (1 Apr 1901)  Page(s) tab 7770.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa Fedtschenkoana.
Native of Turkestan.
Nat. Ord. Rosaceae. — Tribe Roseae.
Genus Rosa, Linn ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 625.)

Rosa (Cinnaniomeae) Fedtschenkoana; frutex erectus, vage ramosus, ramis ramulisque crebre armatis, aculeis stipularibus rigidis rectis v. recurvis basin versus paullo dilatatis et compressis ceteris setiformibus rectis, foliis glaucescentibus 5-7-foliolatis, rhachi gracili sparse setaceo, foliolis pollicaribus ellipticis acutis simpliciter serrulatis terminali paullo majore, stipulis acuminatis petiolo adnatis apicibus liberis floribus solitariis v. 2-4-nis albis malodoris, pedunculis ovariis ellipsoideis sepalisque glanduloso-pilosis, sepalis lanceulatis apicibus linearibus apice simplicibus v. paullo dilatatis, petalis sepalis bis terve longioribus, carpellis stylisque pilis longis sparse hirsutis, fructibus ellipsoideis v. subpyrformibus setulosis rubris sepalis persistentibus coronatis.
R. Fedtschenkoana, Regel. Del. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 1876, p. 30; et in Acta Horti Petrop. vol. v. (1877) p. 314.

A very handsome white rose, with almost black bark on the older branches, red brown on the younger. It was discovered in the Turkestan and Kokan regions of Central Asia, by the Russian travellers, Fedtschenko & Korolkow, by whom it was introduced into the Imperial Botanic Gardens of St. Petersburgh. A plant of it was procured for the Royal Gardens, Kew, from Mr. T. Smith's Nursery at Newry, in 1890, which has developed into a rambling, very glaucous shrub of free growth, and flowered in June, 1900, fruiting in the following September.
According to Dr. Regel it is a variable plant, of which he describes four forms, differing from one another chiefly in the amount of glandular hairs in the calyx, and in the form of the fruit, from globose to lageniform. The scent of the flowers is unpleasant.

Descr.. — A free-growing, very glaucous, much-branched, closely prickly shrub ; stipular prickles straight, or slightly recurved, compressed, and somewhat dilated at the base, other prickles on the branches reduced to bristles, glandular hairs none. Leaves four to five inches long ; rhachis slender, sparsely setose ; leaflets five to seven, an inch long, elliptic, acute, simply serrulate, glaucous; stipules adnate to the petiole, their acuminate tips only free. Flowers solitary, or two to four on a peduncle, large white; peduncles and ellipsoid ovaries more or less glandular-hairy. Sepals lanceolate, tips linear or slightly dilated. Petals twice or thrice as long as the sepals. Carpels and styles sparsely hirsute. Fruit ellipsoid or sub-pyriform, crowned with the persistent sepals, red. — J. B. H.

Fig. 1, bud; 1 and 3, anthers ; 4, carpels : — all enlarged — 5, fruit of the natural size.

Magazine  (1901)  Page(s) 236.  
 
Rosa Fedtschenkoana, Regel, t. 7710. - A native of Turkestan, with blackish bark, red in the young state, and numerous slightly-curved prickles; the glaucous leaves are pinnate; peduncles nearly as song as th leaves, and like the outer part of the calyx, studded with glandular hairs; bud elongate, sepals entire spreading, flowers white; "malodorous."