Website/Catalog  (2010)  Includes photo(s).
 
Forestville Hybrid Gigantea. (synonym “Senateur Amic’.  P. Nabonnand, France, 1924.  
Per ARS: Cl. tea rose;  per Vintage Gardens: Rambler.
This California found Rose has been identified as the Nabonnand hybrid gigantea ‘Senateur Amic’.  The  Vintage Gardens Rose book tells us that it is “in the mold of such beauties as ‘Belle Portugaise’, this rose offers large, full, tea-like flowers of deep carmine-rose to purple; a great spectacle when in bloom. The habit is less climbing, more shrub-like and arching.”  The bloom colour shifts between lavender pink and carmine-red. This rose is Spring blooming. 

Magazine  (Apr 2005)  Page(s) 35.  
 
CORRECTIONS/ADDITONS/DELETIONS
'Senateur Amic', LCl, mr, 1924, published page 537 Modern Roxes XI; Horticultural classification changed to Cl. T.

Book  (Nov 1994)  Page(s) 163.  
 
Sénateur Amic Nabonnand (France) 1824. Rosa gigantea x 'General MacArthur'. Description... Vivid cerise-crimson, nearly single...

Book  (Jul 1993)  Page(s) 96.  
 
Sénateur Amic Description... rich pink in colour, semi-double flowers with prominent stamens...

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 542.  
 
Sénateur Amic Large-flowered Climber, brilliant carmine, 1924, R. gigantea x 'Gen. MacArthur'; Nabonnand, P. Description.

Book  (Jun 1992)  Page(s) 223.  
 
Sénateur Amic P. Nabonnand, 1924. Hybrid Gigantea. Parentage: R. gigantea x 'General MacArthur'. [Author cites information from different sources.]

Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 37.  
 

Senateur Amic (Climber) Large, semi-single flowers of bright carmine with a superb perfume. Healthy and vigorous. 1924 (R) 10 x 8’.

Book  (1978)  Page(s) 148.  
 
‘Senateur Amic' Climber   Red   Early summer     P4  H2
This can be grown in sheltered warm parts of Britain. It is bright carmine red, and opens to a flower that is virtually single. The buds are attractively long and pointed. Raised in France by Paul Nabonnand of Golfe Juan, and introduced in 1924. The parents were R. gigantea x 'General McArthur'. 

Book  (1971)  Page(s) 180.  Includes photo(s).
 
'Sénateur Amic' Cerise-pink, early summer, 20ft (6.1 m.) 1924 Raised by P. Nabonnand, France. Parentage: R. gigantea x 'General MacArthur'. A vigorous and free-flowering climber for the warmer garden, flowering early. Most spectacular in Riviera gardens, however it grows well enough in cooler but not cold areas, especially if planted on a south or west wall. Flowers bright cerise-pink, semi-double and showing boss of yellow stamens when fully open, petals rather loose and irregular, bud long-pointed, flower up to 4½ in. (11.4 cm.) across when fully open; as the flower matures it becomes a warmer pink with shades of terracotta. The flowers are borne singly or in clusters of 2-3. Scent slight. Early June but in south Europe March to April to early May. Foliage light green with 3-5 leaflets, rather susceptible to mildew and black spot but still worth its place where it can be grown well, since its sumptuous effect is unrivalled in its colour early in the rose season. Like other gigantea hybrids, it makes strong young shoots after the flowers are over and to encourage these the old flowering shoots should be pruned out as soon as the flowers are over.

Magazine  (Jun 1951)  Page(s) 2. trimester, p. 58.  
 
[From the article "Le Rosier sur la Côte d'Azur", by Joseph Baccialone, Ingénieur Horticole, Chef de Service des Jardins de la Ville d'Antibes, pp. 46-59]
Le climat du Midi est particulièrement favorable à certaines races très vigoureuses qui peuvent couvrir de grands espaces. Nous citerons parmi les plus intéressants :  ...R. Gigantea et ses hybrides : Non remontants, mais de végétation luxuriante et à fleurs très grandes demi-doubles. Ne sont utilisés avec succès que si on dispose de beaucoup de place. En plus du type blanc citons : — Sénateur Amic, rouge.