(1991)  Page(s) 26.  Includes photo(s).

(1991)  Page(s) 141.  Includes photo(s).
 
The rose in the foreground came to us as 'Le Rire Niais'.... Contrast its graceful growth, which needs support, wth the fine upstanding bush behind of 'Bellard', a Gallica. 

(1991)  Page(s) 83.  Includes photo(s).
 
....At the back is the unique Belle Amour whose colour contains a hint of salmon and whose scent foreshadows the hint of myrrh in 'Constance Spry'.

(1991)  Page(s) 21.  
 
....the camellia-like 'Boule de Neige'.

(1991)  Page(s) 42.  Includes photo(s).
 
The ancient Damask hybrid rose 'Oeillet Parfait' is posing for the camera; note the fresh green leaves, the flowers densely filled with petals, reflexing into almost a ball as they expand and release their rich scent. It was raised in France in 1841. It is important to remember that there is a striped Gallica Rose of the same name.

(1991)  Page(s) 29.  Includes photo(s).
 
'Cerise Bouquet' is a modern hybrid, combining the great vigour of Rosa multibracteata with the sumptuousness of the Hybrid Tea rose 'Crimson Glory'. The long arching sprays are exceedingly prickly and bear the multitude of bracts that one would expect from the first parent. From the second parent is inherited the rich colour and ability to produce a good late summer crop.

(1991)  Page(s) 121.  
 
If we retrace our steps to the bed of China roses in the First Garden, we shall find several roses of true dark crimson. Direct from China in sendings since the end of the eighteenth century is Chi Long Han Zhu which signifies 'with a pearl in red dragon's mouth' and is also known as 'Willmott's Crimson China'. Not far removed from it but with rather larger and fuller flowers, is the old French hybrid 'Cramoisi Superieur' of 1832. ..... It should be noted that all these roses have flowers of intense dark red but are only faintly scented. The colour darkens with age, which is the wont of R. chinensis var. spontanea itself.

(1991)  
 
Commandant Beaurepaire was raised in France in 1879 and is a big sprawling bush with one crop of cupped pink flowers splashed and striped with rose-madder, crimson and purple.

(1991)  Page(s) 45.  

(1991)  Page(s) 35.  Includes photo(s).
 
'Complicata'. It is the white centre and yellow stamens which give the rose 'Complicata' it's brilliance, enhancing the already clear pink. It is sometimes called R. gallica 'Complicata', but, while the gallica rose is almost certainly in its parentage, it is a rose of unknown origin......