[From The Old Rose Adventurer, by Brent C. Dickerson, p. 84:] Several hybrids of the Provence Rose [Centifolia] are close to the Gallica; nurserymen call them Agathes... The roses known in commerce under the name Agathes are still kinds of Gallicas... [they] only differ from [the Gallicas proper] by their remarkable waved [ondulé] foliage... regarded by most fanciers as a variety of the Damask Rose... This rose originates in the Southern part of Europe. It has some close resemblance to the Provins or Gallica, and indeed some with the Centifolia... known around 1435. Bearing the name of a Christian martyr of the Provence region [some used the term "Provence Roses" for the Agathes], to which the rose was brought in the Middle Ages... Victor Boreau found it growing wild in the middle of France, and described it under the name given by Miller [Rosa incarnata]. Introduced into Anjou from Provence by King René [who lived 1409-1480]. Grown by Claude Mollet in 1563. This is the gallica pallidior of Bauhin (1671)...