Book  (1983)  
 
'La Follette' shares its space with the beautiful Banksian rose Banksia lutescens, the Chinese rambler happily rediscovered at Sir Thomas Hanbury's famous vanished garden La Mortola at Menton. Over 50000 small yellow fragrant flowers are produced on long, arching tresses every year in April and May.

Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 32.  
 
R. banksiae lutescens  Diameter of flowers larger than above but single and more sweetly scented. The foliage is similar although young shoots and leaves are copper tinted. 1870. (S) 15 x 8’.

Book  (1933)  Page(s) 210.  
 
Rosa banksiae luteo-plena. Rehder, 1902. This is the old, double, yellow Banksia, similar to the foregoing [Rosa banksiae albo-plena] except that the flowers are straw-yellow and scentless. A single variety called Lutescens may be met with.

Book  (1924)  Page(s) 87.  
 
Banksia roses, introduced from China by one Banks, and known as "Le Banks" in France. The double yellow and the double white are principally seen, wreathing themselves among trees and shrubs, and are best grown in this way for protection, though they succeed on pillar or wall. My own favourite is the single yellow, full of fragrance, which riots over the gardens of La Mortola.

Book  (1898)  Page(s) 4-5.  
 
Banksias --1807.
A distinct species, introduced from China. Quite a feature and glory of the Riviera. None who have only seen them venturing up a southern wall in England, can imagine their vigour, or the growth they make here under more favourable circumstances. They like to take possession of rows of trees or buildings forming a sort of coronet on the top, from which depend long shoots covered with innumerable flowers [...]. We have four varieties. [...]

(4) Single yellow (Lutea simplex). This charming variety grows in a most graceful way, sending up long shoots of twenty feet and more, like supple fishing rods, most free-flowering and when mingled with Wisteria makes a very effective combination of colour.

Magazine  (1895)  Page(s) Annex, p. 4.  
 
[From a special annex on Climbing Roses] Rosa Banksia R. Brown...
Lutescens simplex, single, light yellow

Book  (1888)  Page(s) 89.  
 
Banks roses....Lutescens simplex...

Magazine  (1881)  Page(s) 322.  
 
Lutescens simplex, Odoratissima, Philadelphiflora, Roi des Blanches, Triomphante ...belong to the South.

Book  (1880)  Page(s) 109.  
 
R. Banksiae. R. Brw. - Bank's Rose....There are also straw-yellow and single varieties. The most well-known are:.....Lutescens simplex...

Book  (1880)  Page(s) Annex, p. 73.  
 
Banksia, Lutescens simplex, yellowish, often light yellow, small, single.