Website/Catalog  (1986)  Page(s) 17.  
 

Empress Josephine.....A very good healthy rose. 

Website/Catalog  (1985)  Page(s) 19.  
 
Empress Josephine.....4 x 3’. 

Article (website)  (1982)  Page(s) 16.  
 
Empress Josephine (gallica Type)  Large loosely formed semi-double, heavily veined, pink flowers. Scented. With ample foliage.  Mid 19th century. (S) 5 x 4’.

Book  (1971)  Page(s) 207.  
 
"THE FRANKFORT ROSE, ROSA FRANCOFURTANA. Under this name I have described... a rose which had become known, without any published validity, as 'Empress Josephine'. Redouté's portrait is very near to if not identical with it and probably both his plants and mine were hybrids of either a form of R. francofurtana and R. cinnamomea or the latter and a double R. gallica. At any rate, as Mr. Gordon Rowley pointed out to me, the botanical R. francofurtana recorded in old books (apart from Redouté) refers to a much less double and impressive rose."

Book  (1971)  Page(s) 22-23.  
 
[Describing trips in 1947] ...our first call was at St Nicholas [Richmond, Yorks.]. Mr. [Robert] James had preserved numerous splendid roses among other plants in his delightful garden, and I was particularly interested to find beds of the single pink Rosa gallica, apparently the wild type, and also the so-called 'Empress Josephine', which proved to be a form or hybrid of Rosa francofurtana; both were running through the soil and thriving.

Book  (1958)  Page(s) 102.  
 
Empress Josephine (Impératrice Josephine; Souv. de l'Impératrice Josephine). Shrub. A form of R. X francofurtana (R. gallica X R. cinnamomea). Semi-dbl., loosely shaped, large wavy petals, rich pink veined deeper. Ht. 4 ft., well branched. ([ploidy=] 28).

Book  (1955)  Page(s) 54.  
 
[Article by Daisy l. Mead: "Old Fashioned Rose for the small Garden"]
The flowers of Empress Joséphine are somewhat different from the type, loose and wavy of lovely texture and colouring – pink with deeper veining, really sumptuous.

Book  (1950)  Page(s) 83.  
 
...less typical are the rich rosy Empress Josephine...Gallica itself can be single and light pink...

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 375.  
 
Joséphine, Impératrice (Provins) Vibert ca. 1830; deep pink, edges paler, medium size, very double, ovoid, regular.

Website/Catalog  (1820)  Page(s) 42.  
 
Provins. No. 545. Impératrice Joséphine (Descemet)