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'Princesse de Sagan' rose References
Magazine  (Mar 2020)  Page(s) 25. Vol 42, No. 1.  
 
John Lockley, writing as “Redgum” in The Sun, Sydney, Saturday 7 June 1919, page 7.
Winter Blooming Roses - Some Old Favourites.
Princesse de Sagan, now seldom seen among the latter-day roses, is well worth holding among the above off-season workers. Unfortunately, this rose does not carry very much foot stalk. It gets too busy with blossoms to think much about the setting on which the flowers are placed.  One could use Sagan very successfully for a winter bedder where the flowers might be left to run their course on the plants. Still, with good treatment rose stems are very quick to lengthen out. It is always a matter of food and handling. No, I am wrong. Very much depends upon the position in which the plants are grown. Roses are lovers of warmth and sunlight. Any old corner in the shade will not do. You must see that the sun gets right on the spot, otherwise your winter crop of flowers will be very hard to find.
Website/Catalog  (2017)  Page(s) 50.  Includes photo(s).
 
Princess of Sagan 1887  very free flowering, attractive wavy petals, shades of cherry pink. Fragrant. 
Newsletter  (Mar 2015)  Page(s) 11-.  
 
De Gondlau in 1887 in Journal des Roses.... described it [Princesse de Sagan] as a tea, “solitary, on long stems . . . very numerous petals . . . velvety crimson-red colouring, shaded with crimson black with dark amaranth highlights,” in other words, rather akin in color and shape to ‘Francis Dubreuil’, a tea introduced a few years later, both bred by Dubreuil.....
By 2006 there seemed to be two different roses or variations of this rose, one from the now closed Vintage Gardens, a quite tall, stout, and robust plant producing “dusky rose-pink flowers shaded darker” and the other from Antique Rose Emporium, a more “light-caned and twiggy” bush but upright, of the ‘Safrano’ ilk, growing “flowers of strawberry-rose with amaranth purple shades” and somewhat ‘blowzy.” The latter seems to fit the older descriptions more than the former. But according to the photos of the rose from the seven or eight nurseries both here and abroad that supposedly still sell it—as a china—none appear to match the description. The roses in those photos are pink with some gold or carmine red or deep rose-pink with some amaranth shading—none of velvety crimson shaded with black, none dark red-black, none purplish crimson.....
Princess de Sagan herself was Jeanne Alexandrine de Seilliere, a pampered and spoiled only daughter with three brothers, born in 1839 and married into aristocracy to Prince de Sagan in 1858.
Website/Catalog  (2000)  Page(s) 68.  
 
Princesse de Sagan. T. rrr / fff / 3. Dubreuil 1887. [Knopf]  
We grow two roses under this name, each of which seems to correspond to some of the old descriptions. This is a more uniformly cupped, regular flower, with dusky rose-pink flowers shaded darker. Foliage dark green, abundant, on a very bushy plant. We list it here as the real Princesse de Sagan, the other from the Antique Rose Emporium, follows.

"Princesse de Sagan (ARE)". T. rrr / fff / 2. Unknown, unknown. [ARE]
Rather cupped flowers of strawberry-rose with amaranth-purple shades throughout the bloom; flowers open quartered but blowsy with a very fruity fragrance. Foliage has a leaden or pewter-green cast; growth open and upright.
 
Book  (Dec 1998)  Page(s) 486.  Includes photo(s).
 
Princesse de Sagan . Old. China. Dark red. Repeat-flowering. This moderate China shrub bears deep cherry red maroon, double flowers, which are somewhat cupped and have sporadic extra petals. The flowers are solitary and are well held on long stems at the ends of thin branches. This rose would be hard to come by now, but could be ‘discovered’ in old locations. It was named for Jeanne Alexandrine Marguerite Seilliere, Princess de Sagan who died in 1905. Zones 7-9. Dubreuil, France 1887. Parentage unknown.
Book  (1994)  Page(s) 60.  
 
David Ruston. At Parc de la Tete d’Or…. A rose labelled ‘Romarin’ is I am sure our Princess de Sagan.
Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 473.  
 
Princesse de Sagan China, crimson shaded with purple, 1887, Dubreuil. Description.
Book  (1993)  Page(s) 338.  Includes photo(s).
 
Princesse de Sagan. China. This is an old variety that has been lost and rediscovered but has not yet been widely distributed again. It was raised by Francis Dubreuil, the grandfather of Francis Meilland, in 1887 from unrecorded parents. As photographed at the Osaka Flower Show a couple of years ago, it looks to be less dainty than many of the crimson Chinas, and thus possibly not as pure-bred and aristocratic as its namesake. The crimson color is very fine, and it is a bushy and free-blooming plant, with dark green foliage. Parentage unknown. Repeat flowering.
Book  (Jun 1992)  Page(s) 34.  
 
Princesse de Sagan China. Dubreuil, 1887. Parentage: Affiliated with the progeny of 'Souvenir de David d'Angers'. [Author cites information from different sources. Jeanne-Alexandrine-Marguerite Seillière, Princesse de Sagan; died 1905.]
Magazine  (1992)  Page(s) 6. Vol 14, No. 4.  
 
Eileen Lowther. Re Princesse de Sagan (T) In about 1981 or ‘82 I went on an organised walk through the Melbourne General Cemetery with a group from HRA led by Robert Peace who knew the area well and where the interesting roses were to be found. One of these was for some years known as "Robert’s Red Tea", it was a clear red medium size, and eventually it was identified by Robert as 'Princesse de Sagan', but he said that there seemed to be two reds slightly different in colouring with the same name. Recently Jan Laidlaw picked me some 'Princesse de Sagan' from her garden, it is a small rose - red with a bluish tinge. Can anyone give the date of this rose (or roses) and introduced by whom? The Princesse de Sagan after whom the rose was named was a Parisienne living apart from her husband and was a renowned beauty. She became King Edward VII’s mistress and had a son (See EDWARDIANS IN LOVE by Anita Leslie.)
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