(1841)  Page(s) 169-170.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa Devoniensis Devonshire Rose. A robust shrub, of hybrid origin, with very large, sweet-scented double yellow flowers. With every cultivator of the better kinds of roses, the yellow Chinese variety is a decided favourite, as well or the large size of its delicate yellow flowers, as for their beautiful form, graceful disposition, liberal production , and most agreeable odour. From that handsome plant the sort now figured was obtained by hybridization, though with what other variety is not know. It exhibits a marked superiority in its pricipal features....Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., nurserymen, of Exeter who hold the entire stock of this splendid rose, had the accompanying plate prepared...it possesses a very vigorous habit, with thick, glossy, dark green foliage, and produces a profusion of flowers thoughout the spring, summer and autumn months. "The flowers," say these gentlemen, "are very large, cupped, with find bold outer or guard petals, of a firm Camellia-like texture, very double finely-formed, and deliciously fragrant. The colour...when the buds first open is a creamy buff, changes as the flowers expand to a primrose yellow, with a pinkish-buff centre....Like the yellow China and Noisette rose, "it will succeed best if planted in a rich border, and trained against an eastern or western wall. It thus stood the severe winter of 1840-1841 uninjured....This class of roses requires very little pruning, and their young shoots ought always to be allowed to remain disengaged from the wall through the summer, since the flowers invariably appear at the extremities of the branches.