Book  (Mar 1999)  Page(s) 86.  
 
Ornement de la Nature ('Anémone Ancienne', 'Rose Anémone') Godefroy (France) 1826. Description... soft lilac-rose, tinged with a darker hue...

Article (newsletter)  (Feb 1999)  Page(s) 2.  
 
Ornement de la nature Before 1814... one of 15 Dutch gallicas that definitely or probably originated in the Low Countries and which are still in cultivation today

Book  (Jul 1998)  Page(s) 102.  Includes photo(s).
 
Ornement de la Nature. Netherlands, before 1814. Synonyms: Althée (Baltet, at Troyes), Anémone ancienne (Godefory), Gloria Mundi (Holland). Rose Anémone (according to Prévost, 1829). Habit: 1.30 to 1.40 m, but not really upright, smooth branches, some with prickles and bristles. Foliage: medium green, elliptical leaflets, sometimes quite large. Bloom: small, in clusters of 3 to 7, double, cupped; quarters quite badly organised; rosette around a central tender green eye which can become very large. Colour: carmine at the centre, simply pink on the periphery. Fragrance: Weak. Contemporary literature generally attributes 'Ornement de la nature' to the nurseryman Toutain, 1826. In fact, the sources of the period show that it came from Netherlands, where it was called 'Gloria Mundi' (Hardy). The synonym 'Anémone ancienne' was perhaps given when it was introduced in France. Baltet, at Troyes, called it 'Althée'. Gravereaux believed that this rose was at Malmaison during the times of Joséphine. Prévost, in his catalogue of 1829 describes it as "small, regular, very double, hypocratériform, light lilac-pink".

Article (newsletter)  (1996)  Page(s) 45.  
 
('Ornement de la nature') One of many Gallicas produced in the Low Countries before 1814 and still with us today.

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 531.  
 
Ornement de la nature (Provins) Toutain 1826; lilac-pink, large, double, flat, solitary or up to 5, once-blooming, growth 7/10, upright, 1.25 m. = Anémone ancienne. Sangerhausen

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 24.  
 
Anémone ancienne (Provins) Godefroy ? ; light lilac-pink, small, semi-double, cup form = Ornement de la Nature

Website/Catalog  (1923)  Page(s) 52.  
 
Provins. Ornement de la Nature (Netherlands, 1800). lilac-pink.

Book  (1912)  Page(s) 84.  
 
Catalogue des Roses exposées
160. Ornement de la Nature.—Provins.
Cultivée par Du Pont qui la reçut de Hollande sous ce nom, citée par Redouté, appelée à Rouen, d'après Prévost, Rose anémone.

Book  (1899)  Page(s) 138.  
 
Ornement de la nature, Provins, Toutain, 1826, rose lilacé, syn. Anémone ancien

Book  (1899)  Page(s) 11.  
 
Anémone ancienne, Provins, Godefroy, rose lilacé, syn. Orn. de la Nature