The Gardeners' Chronicle p. 603 (Sept 10, 1842)
On Budding
The difference of trouble in separating buds from varieties of Roses is in no case, perhaps, so remarkable as in the Maria Leonida and Bracteata odorata alba; though so much alike as scarcely to be distinguishable except from their difference in vigour, the former seems to require the gouge to take out the bud successfully, whilst in the latter there is no difficulty. I may here observe, that this instrument is very effective in saving buds of rare sorts that do not part readily and draw the eyes; whilst it gives little trouble and almost invariable success.

Horticulturist Thomas Affleck, edited and annotated by Lake Douglas (2014) p. 224
From the Weekly Telegraph, Houston, October 6, 1858
In the double white microphylla Rose, I think we have one equally as well, perhaps better suited to the stiff black prairie lands, because equally hardy, well-armed and impervious, yet not so rampant [as the Cherokee].

The American Rose Annual (1918) p. 80
One is the Japanese white Microphylla, frequently catalogued by eastern florists as Keystone. This rose is practically an evergreen, and I have one now climbing on and over a portico, which is fully sixty feet from tip to tip. It is never without bloom from spring till frost, seems to revel in neglect, and its small semi-double cream-white blooms are quite atrtractive.