Website/Catalog  (1893)  Page(s) 13.  
 
Rosa Microphylla, ball-like, double flowers, 1 ft....each $ .30, per 10 $ 2 50

Magazine  (1887)  Page(s) 229-231.  
 
Article on Rosa microphylla Roxb. by Rudolf Geschwind.... Part I

Magazine  (1887)  Page(s) 277-279.  
 
Article on Rosa microphylla Roxb. by Rudolf Geschwind.... Part II

Magazine  (1883)  Page(s) 31.  
 
 Nous croyons, sans l'avoir vue, que la Rosa microphylla, avec son feuillage élégant et ses minuscules fleurs solitaires rouge-rosé, est une plante pleine d'avenir, et qu'il ne lui sera pas difficile de gagner les sympathies de ceux qui prennent intérêt à l'étonnante variété de formes dont la Nature s'est plu à parer le monde qui nous est échu en partage.

Magazine  (1882)  Page(s) 380.  
 
Rosa microphylla, Roxb., Bot. Mag., pl. 6548. — Arbuste buissonnant, à rameaux glabres, non armé d’aiguillons, sauf à la base des pétioles; feuilles à 7-9 paires de folioles ovales-elliptiques, aiguës, finement dentées, lisses au-dessus, glabres ou pubérulentes en dessous; fleurs solitaires, courtement pédonculées ; fruits déprimés-globuleux, hérissés de longs piquants. De la Chine et du Japon.

Magazine  (1 Mar 1881)  Page(s) tab 6548.  
 
ROSA microphylla. [Drawing of single form - normalis - but text relates mostly to the double form]
Native of China and Japan.
Nat. Ord. Rosaceae. — Tribe Roseae.
Genus Rosa, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. vol. i. p. 425.)
Rosa microphylla ; frutex erectus, dense ramosus, glaberrimus v. puberulus, eglandulosus, ramis gracilibus, aculeis ad basin foliorum 2-nis rectis basi dilatatis rameis 0, foliis 3-4-pollicaribus, foliolis 3-7-jugis ellipticis subacutis v. acuminatis serrulatis, petiolo nudo v. sparse aculeolato, stipulis parvis v. 0, floribus solitariis ebracteatis breviter pedunculatis, calycis tubo pedunculoque densissime aculeolatis, aculeolis flavidis rectis a latere compressis, sepalis late ovatis v. ovato-rotundatis fimbriato-laceris persistentibus, petalis roseis 2-lobis, disco incrassato faucem claudente, fructu magno depresso globoso crasse carnoso basi intruso, achaeniis paucis basilaribus late ovoideis obtuse angulatis apice obtusis setosis.
R. microphylla, Roxb. in Lindl. Monog. Ros. pp.9, 146; Bot.Reg. t. 919; Roxb. Fl. Ind. vol. ii. p. 515; DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 602; Bot. Mag. t.3490; Wall. Cat. n. 692; Brandis For. Fl. of N. W. India, p. 200; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. ii, p. 364; Crépin Prim. Monog. Ros. 330.

The old plate of the double variety of this plant, published nearly half a century ago in this work (Tab. 3490) gives no idea at all either of its habit or botanical characters. That of Lindley in the Botanical register, though better as regards foliage, also illustrates only the double-flowering state; whilst neither represents the fruit, which is quite unlike that of any of its congeners, and is now for the first time figured
Like many other Roses, the present was known in its cultivated state for long before its native country was discovered, though that this was China was suspected from its having been early recognized by Dr. Lindley as identical with a plant figured in a collection of Chinese drawings of plants in the possession of Mr. [name missing] after Sir Henry T. Colebrooke. All we know of its early history is, that it was introduced from Canton into the Calcutta Botanic Gardens by Dr. D. Roxburgh, from whence it has been diffused into Indian gardens generally. M. Crépin, whose is the only good description of the wild plant that has hitherto been published, gives Lake Hakone in central Japan as the sole native locality known to him, it having been collected there by M. Maximowicz in 1862, and Dr. Savatier in 1871; to this can now be added New-Kiang in North China, from whence there is in the Kew Herbarium a very indifferent specimen (apparently of the single form) collected by Dr. Shearer in 1873. In its double form Rosa microphylla is commonly cultivated throughout China and Japan, and even in Upper Burma, Dr. Anderson having found it at Momyen.
The fruit, which is as large as a crab-apple, is eaten by the Japanese. The leaflets of the wild form are described by M. Crepin as being medium-sized with long points.

Website/Catalog  (1880)  Page(s) 264.  
 
Rosiers Pimprenelles et Microphylles (sarmenteux)
1367. Microphylla. — Grande, pleine, rose tendre.

Book  (1879)  Page(s) Vol. II, p. 347.  
 
(555).  Microphylla. — Adde :
D'aprés plusieurs spécimens récoltés à Hakone, les fleurs de cette espèce sont grandes (larges de 7-8 cent.), blanches avec l'onglet jaunàtre sur le Sec; les pétales sont obcordés, profondément échancrés. Le D^r Savatier a récolté dans les jardins d'Oyakouyen une variété du R. microphylla à fleurs simples et d'un rouge vif. Le Phonzo zoufou, ainsi que nous l'avons dit, figure la plante sous ces deux couleurs.

Book  (1877)  Page(s) 159.  
 
Rosa microphylla rubra from which we have derived all our varieties of this pretty family, was introduced from the East in 1823. It is nearly allied to the Macartney, and is most probably a Chinese hybrid of that rose. The original imported plant bearing double flowers makes it appear more probable that it is a mere garden variety. I have received seed from Italy of this rose, and find that plants from it, to use a florist's term, sport amazingly, no two appearing alike. Several varieties were formerly cultivated, but having no fragrance and but little beauty, they have gone out of cultivation. The original sort is by far the prettiest, as its prickly calyx is very remarkable.

Book  (1875)  Page(s) Vol. I, p. 137.  
 
ROSA. ....
555. Microphylla Roxb. ex Lindl. Mon. Ros. p. 19, add. – Miq. Prol., p. 227.
Hab. in fruticetis regionis alpinæ : Nippon media, circa lacum Hakone frequens (Savatier, n. 382^bis) et alibi, locis non indicatis, ex Siebold et Mohnike. — Fructus acidulus edulis.
Japonice. — Iwara (ex Miquel); Kansjunkin noosi (id.).
Icon. Jap. – Phonzo Zoufou, vol. 87, fol. 19 verso, sub : Kin ossi (floribus simplicibus, rubidis); fol. 21 recto (floribus niveis, simplicibus); fol. 21 verso, sub : Sansio bara (floribus plenis).