Website/Catalog  (2000)  Page(s) 91.  
 
hybrid spinosissima, Fulgens

Book  (1933)  Page(s) 64.  
 
R. spinosissima fulgens - Scotland. A Variation of the native Scotch rose, specially designed for rock gardens, the plant is dwarf with particularly fine fern-like foliage. Small, semi-double flowers of lilac-pink entirely cover the plant for several weeks.

Website/Catalog  (1929)  Page(s) 71.  
 
Rose Species
R. Spinosissima Fulgens.  A horticultural variety of R. spinosissima with small, semi-double flowers of lilac-pink.  Plant dwarf, with particularly fine, fern-like foliage.  This and Stanwell Perpetual are almost the only varieties of the once very popular group of Scotch Roses which remain in active American commerce.

Book  (1923)  Page(s) 121.  
 
Selections by Experts for Special Sections
Roses for North America
Professor Sargent has very kindly contributed the following suggestions as representing the most attractive of the rose species for North American use:
Rosa spinosissima fulgens

Website/Catalog  (1920)  Page(s) 71.  
 
Rose Species
R. Spinosissima Fulgens.  A horticultural variety of R. spinosissima with small, semi-double flowers of lilac-pink.  Plant dwarf, with particularly fine, fern-like foliage.  This and Stanwell Perpetual are almost the only varieties of the once very popular group of Scotch Roses which remain in active American commerce.

Magazine  (Feb 1917)  Page(s) 113-4.  
 
"Imperfection of Pollen and Mutability in the Genus Rosa" by Ruth D. Cole
During the winter of 1915-1916 I made a study of all the species, of which specimens were obtainable, of the genus Rosa.  This was done in connection with work on other genera of the family Rosaceae, notably on Rubus and on Crataegus; and it has been interesting to note that in all 3 genera there is indication of a large amount of hybridism, and that the multiplication of species is startlingly great. [...]
For nearly a century it has been known that one of the most important and most easily recognized characteristics of a hybrid is imperfect pollen. [...] Since, therefore, imperfect pollen is a well known characteristic of hybrids, and one of the easiest means of identifying them, it is from an examination of the pollen of the species of Rosa that their probable genetic status can be determined most easily.
...normal pollen is perfect morphologically, fully formed, and having normal protoplasmic contents; while abnormal or imperfect pollen, such as often characterizes known hybrids, on the contrary, is usually shrivelled and has little or no protoplasmic contents, consequently making the grain quite impotent.
The pollen of Rosa is largely in the last named condition, imperfect, and therefore probably sterile to a considerable extent.  Of the 32 species secured from the Arnold Arboretum, 2 show entirely perfect pollen, and in 3 others imperfectly developed grains were slightly intermingled; that is, showing only 1-10 per cent bad pollen.  Seventeen show a very large percentage of imperfect grains (about 50-100); and the remaining 20 show 10-50 per cent.
In the ... much larger group the percentage of imperfect pollen is 10-50.  In this group are R. spinosissima altaica, R. spinosissima (garden variety hybrid), R. spinosissima, and R. spinosissima paniculata (garden variety).  R. spinosissima fulgens (garden variety), because of its larger percentage of undeveloped grains, belongs to the third and last group [having 50-100 per cent imperfect pollen].
...In comparing the species R. spinosissima with the recognized garden hybrid, a variety of the species and called R. spinosissima garden variety hybrid (fig. 10), the latter shows less pollen in the loculus, but about the same percentage of shrivelled grains.  R. spinosissima paniculata, another garden variety, has only about 10 per cent of its pollen grains undeveloped; while still a third garden variety, R. spinosissima fulgens, has a larger percentage than any of the group I have examined.  This last, as may be seen in fig. 11, has an abundance of pollen grains in the loculus, but about 50 per cent of them appear as tiny, shrivelled cells.
 

Book  (1839)  Page(s) 217.  
 
ROSACEÆ.
Garden Varieties
I. spinosissima.
80. fulgens

Book  (1832)  Page(s) 568.  
 
The following are the names of the Garden varieties of the Scotch Rose.
Single-flowered Scotch Roses.
fulgens.

Book  (1826)  Page(s) 139.  
 
ROSACEÆ.
Garden Varieties
I. spinosissima.
66  fulgens​​​​​​.

Website/Catalog  (1823)  Page(s) 27.  
 
Rosa fl. simpl.
108  spinosissima fulgens