The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 176
. M. Pronville, of Versailles, finds that certain beautifulvarieties of rose lose their improved colours, and return totheir primitive state, when kept on their own roots. Hetherefore grafts them on stocks of wild rose, which besidesplacing the flowers at an agreeable height from the ground,retains… … ^M—i 1 /,;;>■/.■//■ r-l 1 i,iim c7jiii/uii /F-r t -irr