Book  (1991)  Page(s) 43.  
 
Dark purple -- a Gallica hybrid -- no date -- almost prickle-less and in this way as in the shape and colour of the flowers Gallica ancestry is indicated... beautiful little flat flowers (like rosettes) smooth petalled, reflexing into a ball with "button" eyes...

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 46-47.  Includes photo(s).
 
('Hippolyte', 'Souvenir de Kean') A Gallica probably dating from the early 19th century. Description.

Book  (Dec 1985)  Page(s) 159.  
 
Early 19th century. Origin and parentage unknown. One of the nicest Gallicas. Flowers: exquisitely formed, magenta-purple with softer highlights in the centre...

Book  (1985)  Includes photo(s).
 
p15 Plate 85 'Hippolyte'.

p133. 'Hippolyte'. Dark purplish-crimson, summer, 5 ft (1.5m). Shrub rose of good vigour, up to 5 ft (1.5m). Flowers double, dark purplish-crimson fading to violet, rather rounded, of medium size. Mid to late June. Leaflets rather small for a Gallica.

Book  (1983)  Page(s) 47.  Includes photo(s).
 
'Hippolyte'. Soft velvet is the basic colour of this very old rose which sometimes has grey or cerise markings. Flat flowers with a button eye furnish the arching branches in a charming fashion. Will grow to at least 2 metres and is practically thornless.

Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 20.  
 

Hippolyte (gallica) One of the nicest of the gallicas. Flowers exquisitely formed magenta purple, with soft highlights in the centre. Clusters of blooms are born on long-stems often arching downwards in infuriating fashion, but well worth the effort of standing on one’s head to view the plant, because when picked they will refuse to be to be arranged in any vase without props or wire.  Early 19th century. (S) 5 x 4’.

Website/Catalog  (1973)  Page(s) 11.  
 
'Hippolyte. (Gallica). Violet to grey.

Book  (1971)  Page(s) 28.  
 
Tess Allen. Gallica Roses.
‘Hippolyte’s’ light-green stems have the merit of being almost thornless. It bears quantities of double, violet-purple flowers, smaller and brighter in colour than those of ‘Cardinal de Richelieu’, on stiff stems. They open flat and later develop into a ball of violet-grey petals. It is susceptible to mildew in our garden.

Book  (1966)  
 
p10. In our garden we do not find 'Cardinal de Richelieu' nearly so blue in tone as roses such as 'Charles de Mills', 'Hippolyte', 'Belle de Crecy', Anais Segales' or the early hybrid perpetual, 'Reine des Violettes.

p11. The rosy-purple and blue-purple shades in the old roses are enhanced and set off to perfection when grey-foliaged plants are grown around them. This is certainly the case with 'Hippolyte', one of the most free-flowering of all the Gallica Roses in our garden, and one which cascades down from a raised bank.....The full, medium-sized blooms of 'Hippolyte' make a spectacular display, as there must be thousands in bud, or fully out, on the bush at the same time, the mass of flowers bending down the flexible stems. So their raised position is a very valuable aid in showing them off.

Website/Catalog  (Nov 1959)  Page(s) 40.  
 
(Gallica) This is a neat-leaved bushy plant up to 5 feet x 4 feet, bearing exceptionally neat little blooms, smooth-petalled, of the richest Fuchsia-purple. The flowers are borne on lengthy sprays, and are a shade paler than those of 'Cardinal de Richelieu'. Recommended.