(1987)  Page(s) 44.  
 
Monsieur Dupont, who was in charge of the gardens at Malmaison in the days of the Empress Josephine, was particularly interested in the foliage of roses, and he bred two astonishing varieties of centifolias. These were the 'Lettuce-Leaved Rose' and the 'Celery-Leaved Rose'. The latter, with deeply cut and serrated leaves, has not survived the passage of time though the former is still available. [which see]

(1987)  Page(s) 207.  
 
Description. Steen calls it her loveliest pink-flowered shrub rose. Description...

(1987)  Page(s) 8.  
 
In type, between R. gallica officinalis and 'Tuscany'

(1987)  Page(s) 233.  
 
Susceptible to rust

(1987)  Page(s) 103.  
 
Bourbon. Sprays of richly scented, globular, rose-pink flowers, wavy, crimped edges to the petals.

(1966)  
 
p187 ‘Crimson Conquest’ and ‘Chaplin’s Crimson Glow’ are further along, and between each rose is a tall-growing fuchsia to give colour when the flowers of the climbers are over. All these are well-known plants in New Zealand….

p198 On the boundary fence the strong climbers ‘Paul’s Scarlet’, ‘Crimson Conquest’ and ‘Chaplin’s Crimson Glow’ are interplanted with two vigorous, hardy fuchsias Beauty of Exeter and Star of the East, both in tones of rosy-red, and both requiring hard pruning at the end of each season. We generally cut back the roses and the fuchsias at the same time….

(1966)  Page(s) 180.  
 
An interesting rose, though it is far removed from the wild Asian parent, is Multiflora De la Grifferaie, an old stock rose. Through its mixed parentage it gets a rich scent from the Damask. Its full and sometimes malformed flowers and suckering habit from the Gallicas - and its large leaves from the Multifloras. As long as the plant gets plenty of moisture flowers can be lovely; the colour is a rich cherry-magenta which pales to pink on the outer petals. Practically every old settlement, garden, or cemetery in the country boasts plants of this rose, many of them covering quite an area. It is obvious in some gardens that more tender roses have been budded on to this stock, and later died out, leaving the stock rose to take charge. This rose seems to be variable in colour: one plant we saw had crimson-purple colouring, and another rose-pink. We grow this as a bush, and also trained it as a climber; and we are able to cut long sprays from both plants.

(1987)  Page(s) 42.  
 
Steen lists it as a Centifolia.

(1987)  Page(s) 47.  
 
[Steen classifies it as a Centifolia] The Duc de Fitzjames was a descendant of James I through his natural son, the famous Marshal Berwick. This French noble was an enthusiastic lover of gardens, and a great admirer of Blaikie, who wrote The Diary of a Scotch Gardener at the French Court. Tall-growing. Full, circular, quartered blooms of lilac-pink, in clusters...

(1987)  Page(s) 12.  
 
Named after the wife of a Bourbon prince in Napoleon's day -- a son of the famous Comte d'Artois. Not a pure Gallica, the leaves and stems being pale in colour and unexpectedly smooth.