Website/Catalog  (27 Jul 2011)  
 
Rosa ‘Hébé’
A Hybrid Provence rose.  ‘Hébé’ has flesh-coloured, large and full and cupped flowers, its habit erect on a moderate shrub.  [Paul 1848, FC p.42/1850].
  
Horticultural & Botanical History
Raised at Angers in 1843.  Angers was a major rose growing area, but the grower was not named by Paul.  
 
History at Camden Park
Included in a handwritten list of roses dated 1861, probably intended for a new edition of the catalogue that was never printed.  [MP A2943].
  
Notes
Identification of this rose is not certain, the hand-writing is very indistinct and the name appears to have been scored through, but the Hybrid Provence rose ‘Hebe’, described by Paul and noted in a visit to Lane’s Nursery in 1847 by a correspondent of The Gardeners’ Chronicle, is a very likely identification.  

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 335.  
 
Hébé, Belle (china) Descemet before 1815; vivid flesh-coloured, center darker, medium size, double, growth 7/10. [mix-up of breeder and date]

Hébé, Belle (Provins) Laffay ca. 1835; vivid pink, center flesh-coloured.
Hébé (Provins) Vibert ca. 1835; flesh-pink, large, double

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 335.  
 
Hébé (centifolia) Vibert ca. 1835; pink, very large, double.

Book  (1912)  Page(s) 51.  
 
Catalogue des Roses exposées
30. Belle Hébé.—Provins.
Cette variété, citée par Redouté, était dans les pépinières de Le Rouge.

Book  (1899)  Page(s) 77.  
 
Hébé, centifolia, Vibert, rose

Hébé, Provence, Vibert, carné

Book  (1899)  Page(s) 22.  
 
Belle Hébé, Bengale, Descemet, rose tendre 
Belle Hébé, Provins, Laffay, rose vif centre carné, dans le Manuel de Boitard
[mix-up of breeders and class]

Book  (1880)  Page(s) Annex, p. 58.  
 
centifolia. Hébé, magnificent pink, very large, full.

Website/Catalog  (1862)  Page(s) 28.  
 
Hebe Hybrid Provence. Deep flesh colour, large

Book  (1858)  Page(s) 143.  
 
Rosa centifolia.
Hebe, Blumen sehr voll, groß und prachtvoll rosenroth.

Translation: Rosa centifolia.
Hebe, very full, large blooms of a magnificent rose color.

Book  (1858)  Page(s) 227.  
 
Rosa gallica var. provincialis. (Rose de Provence.)
Hébé, Blumen groß, voll, fleischfarben.

Translation: Rosa gallica var. provincialis. (The Provence Rose.)
Hébé, the large, full blooms are flesh-colored.