Book  (1981)  Page(s) 99.  
 
1827 'Félicité et Perpétue' (Jacques), double, white tinted with cream, fragarnt. Named in memory of the two martyrs, St. Felicitas and St. Perpetua who were thrown to the lions in Carthage in 203 A.D.

Book  (1967)  Page(s) 170-172.  
 
...Félicité et Perpétue, which Jacques called after his two daughters, whose names were derived from those of the two Saints and martyrs, Felicitas and Perpetua. This rose has practically evergreen foliage of a dark, reddish-green colour, and huge sprays of small, creamy flowers, blush-tinted on the outside. Each bloom has masses of tiny, closely-packed petals, very similar to those of its small relative, Belle of Teheran. Félicité et Perpétue is, without doubt, the most rampant and indestructible rose in the country. At the entrance to the Treaty House at Waitangi there is a huge mass of it growing up through a high hedge.
...The property [of the vanished Haruru Hotel] is surrounded by tall, overgrown hedges and, along the entire length of this large block of land, Félicité et Perpétue is rampant. It climbs right up into adjacent trees, nearly smothering the hedge, as well as extending out over the grass verges and even in places appearing up through the hard metalled surface of the road itself. Across from the hotel site, an old and derelict cottage is now nearly smothered with roses and other climbing plants. Félicité et Perpétue was growing through the trees and shrubs and a Double White Banksia was almost covering the house....
All through the Bay of Islands district, wherever there are old settlements, Félicité and Perpétue can be found - generally covering a large area. At Matauwhi Bay, near Russell, it is growing through hedges and along roadsides in a most tenacious manner. At Whahapu, between Russell and Okiato....is another old garden where this rose, and many others grow. It is so indestructible that, when a big bush of it was chopped out on the hillside behind Pompallier House to make room for a Memorial boreder of the Pink China Rose, it quickly appeared again, springing up from odd pieces of root left in the ground. Before long, this tenacious rambler, and a White form of R. multiflora which had been similarly treated, were in danger of smothering the China Roses.
Further south we saw a deserted miner's Cottage on Coromandel Peninsula sagging under the weight of a huge bush of Félicité et Perpétue: while the field in front of it was covered with frothy white mounds of the same rose.
...Félicité et Perpétue abounds also in the mining districts of Westland, and in most early settled parts of the South Island. Our plant grew from a roadside cutting; but we had to treat it drastically as it is such a vigorous grower and would soon take charge of our garden. Immediately it has flowered we cut out all the old wood at ground level, and then train no more than six strong new shoots along a wire fence. The next season we get particularly fine flower sprays which cascade down over a rock wall, making a delightful picture.

Book  (1959)  Page(s) 140.  
 
Félicité et Perpétue (Jacques, 1827). Probably the best of the hybrids [of R. sempervirens], a very vigorous climber with nearly evergreen foliage. Blooms are smallish, cream to white, and are carried in large clusters. This sort of rose has been replaced in modern gardens by Wichuraiana hybrids. This is still available in Europe, and where a once-blooming climber of this type is desired, it is hard to beat.

Book  (1947)  Page(s) 145.  
 
Félicité-et-Perpétue (Sempervirens) is a most vigorous climbing rose of pendulous habit, producing its clusters of very double, flat, creamy-white flowers with great freedom. It is suitable for growing on North walls, and in exposed positions on banks and slopes. It needs only light pruning in February, when the tips of laterals should be removed. Jacques 1828...Without scent...June. Very hardy.

Website/Catalog  (1938)  Page(s) 53.  
 
Climbing Section
Felicite Perpetue (Sempervirens)... Creamy-white. good shape. Introduced 1828.

Website/Catalog  (1938)  Page(s) 11.  
 
Félicitée et Perpétue [Semp.] (jacques 27), well double, white, pink bud, hardy, late-blooming, blooms simultaneously with Crimson Rambler. Vigorous, 4-6 m. high.

Magazine  (Dec 1936)  Page(s) 137.  
 
Félice et Perpétue, le Polyantha d'un développement le plus rapide. Il est particulièrement apte à recouvrir rapidement des murs. Il se couvre au printemps d'innombrables petites fleurs doubles d'un blanc pur.
[The author uses the term Polyantha for cluster-flowered climbers]

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 75.  
 
Félicité et Perpétue, 1827 (Jacques): Bud flesh-pink, bloom 3 cm, white, well double, in flat clusters. Foliage beautiful, mostly evergreen, healthy. Very hardy, luscious climber, until 6 m.

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 106.  
 
Félicité-Perpétue Double, white, faint blush on opening, very double, few anthers; pistils long, separate. Bud pink before opening. Pedicel few glands, hip smooth. Calyx just beyond bud, gland edged, two very fine wings. Leaves small, pale green; petiole channeled, thorny. Wood green, short red thorns, not numerous. Still one of the best of climbing roses, covering a wide space on suitable soils, foliage almost evergreen. Named after St. Felicitas and St. Perpetua, the Carthaginian martyrs, whose day is May 7th.

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 255.  
 
Felicité et Perpétue (sempervirens) Jacques 1827; R. sempervirens major X ? ; flesh-white to cream-white, medium size, double, globular, rosette-form, large clusters, floriferous, late-blooming, pink buds, growth 10/10, climbing, 4-6 m. hardy. = Little white Pet. F. and P. were two martyrs in Carthago in the older christian era. Sangerhausen