Magazine (Nov 1952) Page(s) 4.trimester, p. 115.
Leur succédant aussitôt, c'est alors qu'arrive, à mon avis, la plus belle des roses botaniques, le «Capucine bicolor » l'églantier d'Autriche « Austriam briar » ou « Austriam Copper » pour les Anglais et les Américains. Avec ses larges pétales d'un si beau rouge intérieurement, jaune d'or extérieurement, ce rosier attire tous les regards, on ne voit plus que lui, et de loin, dans le jardin. Il ne faut pas le tailler, mais au contraire l'allonger chaque année en attachant les branches les plus vigoureuses sur trois tuteurs assez forts, formant un petit pylône de 2 mètres de hauteur. Il produit le plus bel effet décoratif qu'il est possible d'imaginer et il devrait être planté dans tous les jardins.
Website/Catalog (1949)
"AUSTRIAN COPPER - a selection of Rosa Lutea from the Near East. Single flowers of the most marvellous copper color, yellow and red super-imposed on each other. Blackspots in humid climates, but free of this trouble on the dry prairies. A rose for the lover of unique things."
Percy Wright Catalogue - Hardy and Semi-Hardy Roses - ca 1949 p. 8
Website/Catalog (1942) Page(s) 23.
Species Roses
Austrian Copper—No hybrid rose produced to date has quite the brilliant startling glowing color possessed by this species. It is a remarkable coppery scarlet, with the petals backed with gold, making each large single blossom shine almost like a light. Six to eight feet... $1.00
Book (1940) Page(s) 56.
Frank Mason, NZ. More Hybrids and Species
For some reason or another Austrian copper does not set seed very freely, but the year before last some hips were saved and two have flowered with very small yellow flowers. It will be interesting to watch these for variations.
Book (1939) Page(s) 59.
Frank Mason, NZ. Species and Hybrids.
Austrian Copper, a variety that is well known and well worth a place in any collection, but it will not stand pruning beyond cutting out old dead and dying wood. Some years ago this Rose sported a pure yellow, which has proved to be a fine thing.
Website/Catalog (1939) Page(s) 84.
Rosiers Capucines ... Capucine bicolore Simple, rouge capucine brillant, revers jaune. Tr. florifère. Grand effet.
Website/Catalog (1938) Page(s) 7.
Austrian Copper (Austrian Brier) This is not a Rose to be planted in your Rose garden, but to be given a place among your shrubs or used as a specimen plant— for it makes a shrub 4 to 6 feet high and as much across. Although it blooms but once in a season, it is much desired because it is positively the most vivid combination of colors in existence—brilliant copper-scarlet on the inside of the petals and deep orange- yellow on the reverse. Do not prune it—just leave it alone for best results.
Website/Catalog (1938) Page(s) 48.
Hybrid Musk, Bourbon, Gallica, and other types
Copper Austrian... Bright reddish copper. Beautiful but subject to black spot. Introduced 1596.
Book (1937) Page(s) 72, 76.
p. 72: Jaune bicolore (Lutea) [pollen quality] 18%
p. 76: punicea Asch. & Graebn., punicea Mill. (synonyms of foetida var. bicolor Willm.)
Book (1936) Page(s) 138.
The Copper Austrian Briar. R. Foetida bicolor, syn. R.punicea. This sport of the Yellow Austrian always attracts attention, its nasturtium scarlet cup has no rival in the family of Roses. Its sportive nature is shown by its producing occasionally a pure yellow flower. In France it is called Capucine (Nasturtium) or Ponceau, from the corn poppy or flame colour. All the tree characters and habits are the same as the Yellow Austrian. The fruit is rarely produced, but is said to have the colour as the petals. There is a record of a double form of this variety, the re-creation or re-discovery of which would be of the greatest interest. It was described as being like a double poppy.
Yellow Bicolor. (Jaune bicolor) This is a form where the red, instead of being spread evenly over the interior of the petals, is streaked and splashed, especially at the edges. In other respects identical with the above.
