The Gardeners' Chronicle, Volume 2, no. 19, page 305 (May 7, 1842)

John Thorn—The plant sold in Covent-garden under the name of the Lady’s Cushion is the Saxifraga hypnoides. The ROSA EGLANTERIA is the Austrian Rose; it has not powerful thorns, and will not be suitable for forming a hedge. The best for your purpose will be the Dog Rose, and its varieties; but Rosa ferox has the strongest thorns of any known species.

The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening .. (1894)
p. 547
Wild Roses
T. W. Girdlestone
In regard to Rosa rugosa, it is certainly worth while to grow the finest forms, although this involves their propagation by cuttings or budding, as they do not come true from seed. I have an extremely handsome crimson form, from which I have raised many seedlings, but none of them is nearly so fine either in flower or foliage as the seed parent; while many are as poor as Rosa kamtschatica, which is perhaps the least interesting of the feroces. The white variety, again, does not come true from seed; every seedling that I have raised from a plant, grown in a comparatively isolated position, of a fine white form has produced flowers of varying shades of dingy red—a fact that I fancy tends to dispose of the theory advanced at one time that the white-flowered Rosa rugosa was the original species and the red-flowered ones were varieties.