Book  (1936)  Page(s) 519.  
 
Nutkana (cinnamomea) Pressl. ? ; whirish pink, light reflexes, 6 cm., single, growth 7/10, upright, 2 m. Sangerhausen

Magazine  (Jul 1934)  Page(s) 3-5, vol. 1, no. 10.  
 
Rose Understocks
ROLAND G. GAMWELL
Notes of address made at the Annual Meeting

Rosa nutkana, our best wild rose, has been tried by a number of nurserymen but discarded. Vigorous enough in the wild meadow, when introduced to garden conditions it seems to yearn for the hardships of wild life and pine for companionship of its old friends and neighbors. A few years of civilization is all it can stand. It is short-lived in the garden. R. nutkana was the first rose found by the scientists with Vancouver's expedition in 1792 and got its name from Nootka Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island, which was Captain Vancouver's headquarters for a time.

Website/Catalog  (1924)  Page(s) 32.  
 
Nutkana.- Espèce très vigoureuse, rose églantine

Website/Catalog  (1923)  Page(s) 53.  
 
Rosa Nutkana (Pressl, 1851). Single-bloomed pink. N. America.

Book  (1921)  Page(s) 170.  
 
A Hybrid with Rosa nutkana.—From Mr. George Fraser, of Ucluelet, B. C, comes a most interesting picture (unfortunately not here reproducible) of a rose hybrid between the well-known American variety, Richmond, and the native R. nutkana, the latter being the pollen parent. It was, as Mr. Fraser writes, "A beautiful almost crimson variety of our native wild Rosa nutkana, and flowered in the spring of 1919 while still in the seed-box. Its color is almost the same shade as Reine Marie Henriette." This cross did not happen by accident, for, as Mr. Fraser in another letter observes, he had "tried for three summers running to cross R. nutkana, using it as the seed parent, but without success. I made perhaps 400 crosses with mixed pollen from some 50 varieties, also of species of every kind that I could lay my hands upon, including several American natives. Then I tried it as the pollen parent, using the almost crimson variety growing a few miles from here on the sand hills." The result was the seedling of which Mr. Fraser sent to the Editor a photograph, it being the only one so far of five hybrids to flower. A second photograph shows the bud to have a very pleasing shape.

Book  (1919)  Page(s) 438.  
 
R. NUTKANA, Presl. NOOTKA ROSE.
A robust shrub, 6 to 10 ft. high, spines stout, hooked or straight, sometimes ½ in. or more long on the young barren stems, often absent from the flowering shoots. Leaves 3 to 5 ins. long, stipules edged with glands ; leaflets five to nine, broadly oval to ovate, ¾ to 2 ins. long, simply or doubly toothed, downy beneath (sometimes smooth). Flowers solitary, or in twos or threes, bright red, 2 to 2½ ins. across ; calyx-tube and flower-stalk smooth ; sepals 1 to 1½ ins. long, narrow, with an expanded leaf-like apex, glandular and more or less downy. Fruit globose or orange-shaped, bright red, ½ to 5/8 in. wide, crowned with the long, erect sepals.
Native of Western N. America, common along the Pacific coast ; discovered by Archibald Menzies on Vancouver Island in 1793. It is a handsome wild rose, perhaps the handsomest of W. American species, and flowers and fruits well in this country.

Book  (20 Feb 1912)  Page(s) No. 233, p. 71.  
 
Seeds and plants imported during the period from January 1 to March 31, 1911:
...30261. Rosa nutkana Presl. Distribution.- North America, from British Columbia southward to northern California, Montana, and Utah.

Book  (1910)  Page(s) 339.  
 
[Under the heading Interesting Species and Hybrids not Classified.] Nutkaensis; from the Western United States; large single pink flowers, glaucous foliage.

Book  (1909)  Page(s) 208-209, Vol. 1.  
 
R. nutkana Presl Nootka Rose. Sout, 2 to 5 feet high; prickles stout (rarely slender), usually straight, or the stem sometimes unarmed; leaves resinous-pubescent beneath...; flowers solitary or 2 to 4 together...;hips globose or depressed-globose....
Valley flats or hillslopes, 5 to 1500 feet; Humboldt and Siskiyou Counties; east to Utah, north to Alaska. May - June.

Book  (1900)  Page(s) 351.  
 
Rosa nutkana. (Garden and Forest 1888, 449, f. 70.) Hardy of stout habit, with rather broad foliage; usually aremed at the base of the leaves with scattered prickles. Leaf glabrous or pubescent. Fl. large in lax corymbs, peduncles and ovaries smooth, unarmed, Fruit globose, 1/2 in. in diam., bright scarlet. North-west America.