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'Ballady' rose References
Book  (2020)  Page(s) 98.  
 
 'Ballady' (Perrot, 1934) Growth habit: up to 1 m, many. Centifolias.
Article (website)  (13 Aug 2007)  
 
R. × centifolia L. × R. × damascena Mill. ‘Ballady’
Article (website)  (20 Dec 2004)  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa gallica var. aegyptiaca Schwf. ('Ward Belledi' ou 'rose du pays', des Egyptiens)
Classé à Rosa gallica par Crépin (comme le précédent, d'ailleurs), la rose 'Ward Belledi' récoltée par Georges Schweinfürth était encore fréquente dans le delta du Nil et dans le Fayoum à la fin du XIXe siècle. Il sagit peut-être d'un hybride triple [(R. gallica x R. phoenicia) x R. sempervirens?] qui devrait sa résistance à la chaleur au moins à l'une des Synstylae impliquées, voire aux deux. Par certains détails (sa glandulosité, la forme ronde de ses boutons, ...), 'Ward Belledi' évoque le R. arvensis var. trojana Il est possible que les voyageurs d'autrefois aient confondu ce cultivar avec les Damas ou les quatre saisons.
Schweinfürth a ramené du Yémen également des formes très similaires que Crépin a pourtant placées parmi les R. x damascena Mill. Celles-ci ne sont pas sans rappeler des spécimens récoltés au cimetière de Puteaux et peut-être à rapporter à R. belgica Mill., la "rose de Puteaux" en 1886 et envoyés à Crépin par M. Delacour, responsable des Ets. Vilmorin.
Book  (Jul 1998)  Page(s) 30.  
 
Rose d'Égypte (Rosa gallica. var. aegyptiaca (Schweinfürth)) ... at the end of the 19th century was frequently found in Egyptian gardens... it was discovered by the German botanist, George Schweinfürth (1836-1925)... a specimen can be found in the Crépin herbarium at the botanical garden in Belgium, near Brussels.
Book  (1976)  Page(s) 17.  
 
location 118/6, Ballady (Prof. Perrot 1934) Centifolia, pink, large, double, medium height
Website/Catalog  (1970)  Page(s) 14.  
 
location 118/6, Ballady (Prof. Perrot 1934) Dam. x Cent.
Article (magazine)  (1932)  Page(s) 347.  
 
It is also possible that one of the nowadays most common Egyptian garden roses, R. gallica v. aegyptiaca, was brought to Egypt by Greek colonists. Its native name, »ward balladi» (the native rose), indicates a culture of long duration.....
Most of these gallica-specimens are labelled with the Arabic name ward balladi, which, as mentioned above, signifies »the rose of the country». This gallica-form, therefore, seems to have been cultivated in Egypt since long ago, perhaps already during the Antiquity. According to a note on one of the labels, Crépin considers this ward balladi as a variety of R. gallica. Although the labels only indicate ward balladi we find in Schweinfurth’s Arab. Pflanzennamen etc. (1912) the same rose called R. gallica v. aegyptiaca Schwf. Any description of this variety I have not been able to find in Schweinfurth’s publications. Therefore, I will here characterize this common variety according to the specimens in the collection.
R. gallica L. v. aegyptiaca Schwf. Arabic: ward balladi. (Fig. 1.) — Stem richly branched with numerous bristles intermixed with straight, narrow prickles; leaflets 5 (in the collection there is no leaf with 7 leaflets), oval-elliptic, with cordate base and obtuse or slightly acute tip, above glabrous, beneath pale, slightly hairy, with raised veins and scattered glands on the midrib; leaves thick, apparently introrsely folded along the midrib, as many of the leaves are preserved in such a state; teeth simple, broad, rounded with a short point; rhachis with hairs and numerous glands; stipules narrow, hairy, with no or scattered glands; inflorescence a corymbe, on the specimens in question to 8-flowered; pedicels, receptaeles and sepals densely beset with bristles and glands; receptacle usually pyriform, somewhat constricted at apex, sepals usually short, little reaching above the flower-bud, only exceptionally on the largest flowers well developed with large, leaflike endlobe; inner sepals entire, outer ones usually with 1—3 pairs of narrow lobes; sepals after flowering reflexed, long persistent; corolla double, although not completely, 3—6 cm. wide, apparently deep rose; stigmas woolly, fruit (only a few seen) obovoid, 2 cm. long, 1,5 cm. broad.
According to the notes on the labels, this variety is an old Egyptian hedge-rose, which is found in most Egyptian gardens. The scent of the flowers is described in some cases as strong, in other cases as weak. It is flowering only once a year, in springtime. The flowering specimens are collected in April and in May.
The oldest specimen (1877) consists of some separated, 3 cm. wide, stalked flowers, from the monastery of S:t Antony, which is situated quite isolated on the high plateau of Galala in the middle of the Arabic Desert between the Nile and the Red Sea. A comparison shows that these flowers belong to ward balladi and not to R. Richardii, which grows at the monasteries in Abyssinia. The other specimens are from the following places: Garden at Nesle, Prov. Fayum 1884; Wakf gardens at Medinet-el-Fayum 1888; Ali Pasha-Sherifs garden at the Shubra Allée, Cairo 1888; Arabic garden at Sydney-Senab, Khalig, Cairo 1888; Fruit garden at Qubba near Cairo 1888; Arabic garden at El-Gjohassia, Tania in the Delta 1889; Cairo 1893; Palace garden of Giza as hedge 1895; Old garden of Mohammed Omar near Shubra, Cairo 1897; Cairo 1899; Garden of Ibrahim Pasha, Cairo 1899; Alexandria 1911, collected by M. F. Fish
Website/Catalog  (1931)  Page(s) 227.  
 
Divers – Ballady. – la piece, 2 fr.; les 10, 18 fr. – Genre de rosier Cent-feuilles. Plante vigoureuse et florifère, non remontante. Fleurit en bouquets de 4 à 10 fleurs. Fleur assez grande, semi-double, intérieure rose carmine vif. Reverse des petals rose argenté. Très odorante. Cette espèce était cultivés dans l’ancienne Egypte pour la fabrication de l’eau de rose. Plante très intéressante.
Magazine  (1922)  Page(s) 272.  
 
Je tiens à segnaler, avant de terminer, que R. sancta découvert dans les tombeaux égyptiens et importé vivant du Tigré en France,appartient au R. gallica. Il en est de même du R. Ward Ballady cultivé aux siècles derniers à Médinet-el—Fayoum, Damiette et Alexandrie.
Magazine  (1922)  Page(s) 202.  
 
... both these species and also R. Ward Ballady, which has been cultivated for the past few centuries at Fayoum, Damietta, and Alexandria, appertain to R. gallica.
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