Book  (1993)  Page(s) 100.  Includes photo(s).
 
('Cramoisi Supérieur', 'Agrippina', 'Lady Brisbane') China. Coquereau (France) 1832.

Book  (Jun 1992)  Page(s) 28.  
 
Cramoisi Supérieur ('Agrippina', 'Queen of Scarlet') China. Coquereau/Audiot/Vibert, 1835. Seedling of R. chinensis 'Slater's Crimson'. [Author cites information from different sources.]

Book  (May 1992)  Page(s) 17.  
 
[The rose growing in Bermuda believed to be] Cramoisi Supérieur, known in Bermuda as 'Agrippina', is certainly the same as the European although more vigorous...

Book  (1991)  Page(s) 121.  
 
If we retrace our steps to the bed of China roses in the First Garden, we shall find several roses of true dark crimson. Direct from China in sendings since the end of the eighteenth century is 'Chi Long Han Zhu' which signifies 'with a pearl in red dragon's mouth' and is also known as 'Willmott's Crimson China'. Not far removed from it but with rather larger and fuller flowers, is the old French hybrid Cramoisi Superieur of 1832...... It should be noted that all these roses have flowers of intense dark red but are only faintly scented. The colour darkens with age, which is the wont of R. chinensis var. spontanea itself.

Book  (1990)  Page(s) 38.  
 
Cramoisi Superieur 1832.  Agrippina or Lady Brisbane.     Deep crimson-red ;  double medium-sized blooms.    Very free flowering in large clusters.   Low.  Remontant.

Magazine  (1988)  Page(s) 24. Vol 10, No. 3.  
 
Myrtle Robertson:    
In the February issue of the journal, B. Carty’s reference to the Lady Brisbane rose took me back to my childhood as this is my first recollection of a rose.     It was growing in our garden in Mackay more than 60 years ago and was always known in our family as “Mum’s little red rose”.     It was years later when I learned its real name when visiting the rose garden in Newstead Park, Brisbane and saw it labelled Lady Brisbane.     After my mother passed away I managed to get a cutting of the rose and had it growing in a pot.     Thinking it might die while we were away and not wanting to trust it to anyone else to look after, I took it with us on holidays with us to the Blue Mountains where it had its first bloom.     We moved several times over the years and this rose has always gone too.     Now in our retirement, we have a large bush in our garden in Bellingen.    Nancy Steen in her book “The Charm of Old Roses”  mentions that when visiting Professor E. G. Waterhouse’s garden, behind borders of lavender there were rows of red China roses which the Professor told her were known in Australia as the Lady Brisbane rose.      Last year in Rumsey’s Nursery I saw a rose marked Cramoisi Superieur.    It looked very similar but not exactly the same to me.    Not having brought my Lady Brisbane on this trip I couldn’t accurately compare them.     Whether they are the same or one a seedling of the other, I don’t know.    I do know that it is perfumed, trouble free, strikes readily from cuttings, seems always to be in bloom and I love it.

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 68.  Includes photo(s).

Magazine  (1984)  Page(s) 2. Vol 6, No. 2.  
 
Charles Walker, Raleigh, North Carolina:    
Do you know the China rose 'Louis Philippe'?  I’m wondering if this might be the Lady Brisbane rose.     Louis Philippe  is globular, much like Cramoisi Superieur but the outer edges of the inner petals are much paler, sometimes almost blush.     This rose is listed in Nancy Steen (pp65, 80).    She didn’t have it in her garden evidently, but noted it was listed by a Nelson (N.Z) nursery in 1860.    If someone could send some good close-up colour photo’s or slides (returnable) I’ll compare them with what is grown here under that name.  

Book  (1984)  Page(s) 157.  
 
‘Cramoisi Supérieur’ /’Agrippina’= chinensis Cocquereau 1832… petites fleurs doubles, en coupe… belles et abondantes, surtout sur les fortes pousses de l’année, à la fin de la belle saison… présentent de juin au courant de l’automne. Le feuillage, pourpré à son apparition, passe au vert foncé…

Article (website)  (1982)  Page(s) 14.  
 
Cramoisi Supérieur (China) Semi-double, cupped flowers of bright, crimson-red. Very free flowering. Only slightly scented. 1832. (R) 3 x 3’.