Book  (1836)  Page(s) Sect. II, p. 25.  
 
Hybrid Chinas...
Nouvelle d'Italie, very beautiful, good fragrance. White, center a little pink, 2 inch wide double. Climbing. Yellowish-green foliage, fine, glossy upper, matte lower side, 1 1/2 inch long 2/3 wide, often 9 leaflets on one stalk. The branches are full of smaller prickles, from which , now and then, single large, upwards looking prickles emerge.