Website/Catalog  (1861)  Page(s) 86.  
 
Tea-Scented Roses. 50 cents each, $5 per dozen.
White Daily — An old favorite, white variety; cupped.

Magazine  (Apr 1859)  Page(s) 379.  
 
....Annexed is the list of the best six varieties of each class of everblooming roses:...Bengal or Daily Roses. Abbe Molland... Agrippina....Archduke Charles.,..Eugene de Beauharnais....Madame Breon....Indica Alba; pure white. ....The above thirty varieties will be carefully packed and forwarded, by express or any other conveyance that may be specified, for ten dollars. H. A. Dreer, Seedsman and Florist, 327 Chestnut Street.

Website/Catalog  (1857)  Page(s) 17.  
 
No.68.  White China ....illegible

Book  (1854)  Page(s) 263.  
 
Im J. 1802 fand, aus Indien kommend, nach Paris ihren Weg die mit der bengalischen nahe verwandte rosa indica, welche, viel weniger gefüllt als ihre bengalische Schwester, von schwächerm Holze, sich durch dunkel carmosinrothe Blumen empfahl. Die Versuche mit dem Ausfäen der reifen Samenkörner wiederholten sich, und erbrachten eine Rose, die von wegen ihrer weißlichen Färbung, bei aller Unregelmäßigkeit der Form, großen Beifall fand. Man nannte sie die rosa alba, woraus doch später subalba geworden ist.

Translation:
In 1802, the rosa indica, which is closely related to the Bengal, found its way to Paris from India. It is much less double than its Bengal sister, is of weaker wood and is distinguished by its dark crimson flowers. The attempts to shed the ripe seeds were repeated and yielded a rose that was well received because of its whitish colour, despite the irregularity of its shape. It was called the rosa alba, which later became subalba.
 

Website/Catalog  (1853)  Page(s) 16.  
 
White Tea, a great bloomer, and fine for the border, delicate White.

Book  (1852)  Page(s) 68.  
 
Rosa Indica or (Bengal of the French) Chinese Ever-blooming Roses.
Indica alba, white daily or sarmeteuse of some, pure white, perfectly double, free-growing, and profuse in flowering; it is much more tender than the former [Common Daily], but does tolerably well when protected during winter. In the Southern States, it is a great and growing favorite. Thousands of this rose have been grown and sold in Philadelphia within these five years.

Website/Catalog  (1851)  
 
1. Evergreen and Perpetual
Alba (Indian).

Magazine  (26 Sep 1850)  Page(s) 392-394.  
 
This White China rose had the good fortune to come into the world before they found out the way to give roses such hard names, and, like old gardeners, very few people care anything about it; in short, I do not know if the nurserymen grow it at all, it is so old; but this I do know, that they grow no China rose half so useful. It is in full flower every day from May to December, and late in the season it is the only white rose one can pick to make a variety in the glasses. In November the buds of it are as hard as acorns, and as pointed as a bayonet, and if it is wet weather, the out side row of petals look much faded, and nine persons out of ten would pass it as gone; but strip off the faded covering and you have the nicest white rose bud you ever saw, and it will keep ten days fresh in a dry warm room. All the autumn roses for house decoration ought to be cut before the buds are more than half blown; they will keep all the longer, and look as well if not better than if they were quite open; they escape the damp, and will open in the glasses.

Article (misc)  (1850)  Page(s) 21.  
 
839. R. Indica v. alba.

Website/Catalog  (1848)  Page(s) 30.  
 
The Tea Rose. — Rosa Indica Odorata.
Price, 25 to 50 cents each.
White Tea... Delicate white, abundant bloomer, very fine.