Rosa pisarti (Species?) []

Gardening Illustrated 9:166 (June 4, 1887)

A LITTLE-KNOWN SINGLE ROSE—ROSA PISARTI.
A beautiful and comparatively recent addition to the list of the lovely single Roses is the above-named kind. It has slender and very spiny branches, which have a tendency to droop. The flowers, which are pure white, are sweetly scented, and produced in profusion in the manner represented in the accompanying engraving; so plentifully, indeed, are they borne that they are said to give the bushes, when in full flower, the appearance of masses of snow. Like the beautiful R. Brunoniana, rugosa, and a few others, it will make a capital object for planting singly on a lawn, a position in which its beauty would be shown off to the best advantage. It is said to flower not only abundantly, but continuously, for several months. This species was named in compliment to M. Pisart, gardener to the Shah of Persia, at Teheran, to the gardens of which it has been introduced from Guiland, a locality near to the Caspian Sea. It is said to be extremely hardy, therefore its extended culture in our midst is greatly to be desired.

A Collection of Late Voyages and Travels, by Robert Heron (1797)
Guiland, bordering on the Caspian Sea, would be a very agreeable country, if the unwholesome waters stagnating in its vallies did not occasion frequent epidemic distempers among its inhabitants. They cultivate rice with successful industry; and this grain constitutes almost their sole nourishment. Adiat Khan is the present ruler of Guiland. He resides at Recht, a town considerably populous, the environs of which abound in mulberry trees, and afford the finest silk in Persia.