(1838)  Page(s) Tab 410.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa lutea var Hoggii Hogg's Double Yellow Briar. An upright, branching shrub, with brownish purple branches, armed with numerous straight, spreading, unequal prickles. Leaves pale green; petiole and rachis slender, filiform, sparingly hairy and glandular; leaflets elliptical, mucronulate, doubly and sharply serrated, membranous, glabrous and concave above, sparingly glandular beneath, about half-an-inch long. Flowers terminal, solitary, pedunculate, semi-double. Peduncles stout, filiform, about two inches long, sparingly clothed with glandular bristles. Calyx tube globular, depressed, glabrous, and glossy; segments ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, entire, downy on the upper surface, copiously glandular exteriorly, often furnished with a leafy apex, which is serrated...Petals obcordate, of a pale sulphur colour. This variety was brought from New York by Mr. James McNab, who received it from Mr. Thomas Hogg, Nurseryman, in that city, by whom the plant was raised from seeds of the single yellow rose, and it is known in the nurseries by the name of "Hogg's yellow American Rose." It is a pretty variety, but it is surpassed in the fulness of its flowers, and in richness of colouring by William's double yellow rose, figured at Tab 353 of the present volume.

(1838)  Page(s) Plate 353.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa lutea; var. plena William's Double Yellow Briar ...erect bush of several feet in height, sending forth plenty of root-shoots. Branches brown, armed with numerous straight, unequal, slender prickles. Leaves of rather a darker green ...and composed of 7 or 9 elliptical, rounded, doubly and sharply serrated... concave leaflets, slightly hairy and glandular beneath, glabrous above..Stipules narrow, the free extremities divergent, lanceolate, finely toothed and glandular at the margins. Petioles glandular...Flowers double, of a sulphur colour, rather full and fragrant. Bractes none. Peduncles filiform, flabrous, about an inch long. Calycine tube globose, glabrous. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, entire or slightly pinnatifid, hairy, and furnished exteriorly with numerous small prickles. Petals obcordate. Styles copiously villose.

This interesting variety was raised about ten years ago by Mr. John Williams of Pitmaston, near Worcester, from seeds obtained from the single yellow rose, which but very rarely matures its fruit in this country. Among the seedlings raised on that occasion three proved to be double, one of which is the subject before us, which from its flowering freely, and from the size, form and colour of its blossoms is...a most valuable addition to our collection of hardy roses. Mr. Williams, in a communication to Mr. Sabine, describes it as a plant of vigorous growth, and that it sends forth abundance of suckers. . . .