Book  (1960)  Page(s) 224.  
 
The flowers of Rosa Bourbonica or Rose Edward commonly known as Cheenia or Desi Gulab are abundantly available in Uttar Pradesh. They are used for the preparation of Rose Water and Gulkand but small quantities are also used for making Rose Attar and Rose Oil.
The essential oil prepared from Rose Edward was examined and various constituents present there were identified using chromatographic method....

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 232.  
 
Edward, Rose (bourbon) Jacques 1820; Tea X R. bifera? ; vivid deep pink

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 220.  
 
Dubreuil (Bengal) Neumann ? ; vivid pale pink, large, very double.

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 510.  
 
Neumann (Bengal) ? ? ; pale pink = Dubreuil

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 277.  
 
France, de l'Ile de (Bourbon) Hardy 1822; pale pink or vivid crimson, medium to large, very double, fragrance 8/10, short branches. = Eglantine.

Book  (1935)  Page(s) 92.  
 
In some obscure, unrecorded way, R. indica got to the Isle of Bourbon, probably through the French East India Company, and from this island, in 1817, a fixed cross, called the Bourbon rose, came into rose-culture in France.

Magazine  (1933)  Page(s) 92.  
 
The cuttings are taken from such stocks as Edward roses, i.e. desi gulab, multiflora miscalled gigantea or briar, chaitee and basra. These are struck in sandy soils in open beds in March.

Book  (1930)  Page(s) 535.  
 
...The following original remarks of Firminger are therefore reprinted, as they are records of actual experience and are therefore of permanent value.
Firminger writes, in the third edition [1874], as follows:-
"It must be within the memory of those now living that the garden sof Bengal at least, if not all India, hardly possessed a Rose that was worthy of the name. It is over fifty years ago that the Rose Edouard was introduced. Previous to that there was nothing better to represent this lovely race than the common China, the Musk, and the Bussora, putting forth a show of blossom for one short season, and shabby and disagreeable all the rest of the year...

Magazine  (Oct 1929)  Page(s) 142.  
 
Une autre forme de rosier thé fut introduite, en 1820, de l'Ile Bourbon, dont elle prit le nom. En 1817, M. Breon, directeur du jardin botanique de l'île, découvrit, dans la haie d'une plantation de l'ancienne Compagnie des Indes, appartenant à M. Edouard Perrichon, un de ces rosiers qui se distinguait par une végétation particulière. Il envoya des graines à M. Jacques, jardinier du Château de Neuilly ; celui-ci les sema et obtint quelques variétés du type nommé à l'île Bourbon Rose Edouard. En 1824, un individu du pied-mère de l'île Bourbon fut apporté en France par M. Neumann, jardinier du Muséum

Book  (1926)  Page(s) 170.  
 
B. S. Bhattacharjee, N.R.SW. Empress Jubilee Gardens, Deoghar (Sonthal Perg.) Suitable Roses for India and How We Grow Them.
The propagating stocks used here are the Edward Rose or the Cape Rose, and Rosa Gigantea as they call it. I am not sure of the nomenclature of the latter, which is of a climbing habit, but the flowers are tiny, semi-double ones in clusters, and are pink in colour. The foliage is somewhat similar to the wichuraiana, and the flowers are produced early in summer. This stock is the most used in India, and I have found this better than the English briar and the Edward Rose. It is very hardy and immune from all diseases. We strike cuttings of this variety and graft the Roses with these which we have found better than budding. I shall be very thankful if any reader kindly ascertains the correct nomenclature of the above-mentioned Rose.