The Horticultural Register, Volume 5(63): 355 (Sept. 1836)

Smith's Florists' Magazine. The number for August contains the following favourite flowers, viz.

2. The plate contains two roses of rare merit, viz. the Rouge de Luxembourg, sometimes called the Crimson Moss; and Rosa damas Leda, a beautiful pale blush, tipped or blotched with bright purple, which gives it a very pleasing appearance. Mr. Smith has added a few good directions for pruning this and other roses.

Flora Odorata, p. 98 (1843)
Frederick Thompson Mott
The Crimson Moss, or Rouge de Luxembourg, is perhaps the handsomest of all the moss roses, and its scent is delicious. Its culture and propagation are the same as directed for the common Moss, and they are all well suited for standards from three to five feet high.

Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, 1837, p. 237
The Rouge de Luxembourg is a brilliant and highly coloured moss-rose, of a beautiful form, and well filled up in the centre; the colour is carmine, and may be considered a rose of much merit.

The Floricultural Cabinet (Dec. 1, 1836) p. 286
Rev. J. Jones, A. M., Bristow Rectory

The Rouge de Luxembourg is a very luxuriant grower, and of a fine dark crimson colour.

Rouge de Luxembourg, or Ferrugineuse — deep red with purple tinge — cupped and double, splendid