Book  (1846)  Page(s) 213.  
 
Hybrid Provence Rose -
Gracilis, or Shailer's Provence, is a very old and delicate-growing rose, unlike most other varieties of this family in its habit, as it seems to be between the Boursault and the Provence Rose.

Book  (1843)  Page(s) 35.  
 
Gracilis, or Shailer's Provence, is a very old and delicate-growing rose, unlike most other varieties of this family [the Hybrid Provence] in its habit. as it seems to be between the Boursault and Provence Rose.

Magazine  (1 Dec 1838)  Page(s) 280.  
 
Remarks on the Rose.

From the uxurious manner in which the Romans lived in this country for many ages, and from their habit of wearing wreaths of roses at their banquets, it is more than probable that they introduced many kinds of their own roses into the gardens which they formed in this island.  The principal variety of the Provence rose are the Common, Scarlet, Blush, White, Rose de Meaux, Pompone, Rose de Rheims, Childing’s Blandford, Rose of St. Francis, Shailer’s...

Book  (1837)  Page(s) 18.  
 
The Summer Rose Garden.
Hybrid Provence Roses.
Gracilis, or Shailer's Provence, is a very old and delicate growing rose, unlike most other varieties of this family in its habit, as it seems to be between the Boursault and Provence rose.

Website/Catalog  (1829)  Page(s) 32.  
 
Rosa,  Rose.
27  Provins Shailer's  6 pale pink

NB: the '6' in the description may refer to the height- in feet- of the plant

Book  (1828)  Page(s) tab. 99.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa gracilis.
Slender Rose.
Character specificus. Rosa geminibus sub-globosis : pedunculis leviter hispidis, gracilibus; floribus multipetalis, imbricatis, equalibus, incarnatis. Caulis glaber, flexibilis; aculeis sparsis.

Specific Character. Rose with nearly round seed-buds, and peduncles slightly hispid and slender; flowers of many petals, imbricated, equal, and flesh-coloured. Stems smooth and flexible; spines scattered.

This delicate Rose was raised about the year 1796 by Mr. Shailer, nurseryman, of Little Chelsea. It is as yet so little known, that a dwarf variety of the Province is frequently sold for it; a mistake most probably owing to its being common called amongst cultivators Shailer's Province Rose: but it certainly bears most resemblance to the Rosa Indica, and is, as far as we can understand, a hybrid production between the two species; and if so, it might come under the description of variety only. But, whilst nature produces such distinct and beautiful varieties, from the drooping of its branches and nodding of its flowers, whose close and numerous petals are too heavy for its weak and slender stem to support. It appears to be a Rose calculated to train against a trellis to great advantage. It is as hardy as most Roses, and is increased (but not easily) by layers. Flowers during the months of June and July.

Book  (1827)  Page(s) 140.  
 
278 Provins, Shailer's

Website/Catalog  (1826)  Page(s) 18.  
 
Alphabetical List of Roses.
Provin's Shailer's

Book  (1826)  Page(s) 35.  
 
Nous devons également à ce cultivateur anglais [Shailer] le rosa gracilis.

Book  (1823)  Page(s) Vol. I, p. 54.  
 
ROSA pumila rubrifolia.

Distinguitur caule humili, debili, aculeis paucis, gracilibus, recurvis, petiolis aculeatis, purpurascentibus, foliolis mediocriter magnis, concavis, ovatis acutiusculis, supra glaucescenti-viridibus , subtus subalbidis, utrinque rubedine suffusis, praesertim junioribus; pedunculis gracilibus, subhispidis, urceolis globosis, segmentisque subintegerrimis hispido-glandulosis, floribus plenissimis cernuis, máxime explanatis, petalis roseis, parvis imbricatis conchaeformibus nec undulatis. T.

In Anglia communiter ab hortulanis vocatur Shailer's Province Rose. Icon apud Andrewsium in Ros. fasc. 21. sub nomine R. gracilis.