(1930)  Page(s) 159.  
 
...Hardier varieties resulted from the crossings, in which R. gigantea was used as the father, and indeed from Mad. Berard as mother, a light salmon-coloured Amateur Lopes, whose petals pass at the tips to washed red.

(1930)  Page(s) 159.  
 
...Hardier varieties resulted from the crossings, in which R. gigantea was used as the father, ...Belle Portugaise descends from the bastardization [crossing] with Souvenir de Leonie Viennot...

(1930)  Page(s) 159.  
 
...Among the crossings made by the author, both the cross Gigantea X Tea rose as well as the reciprocal combination showed good successes. The first crossing, in which the variety Reine Marie Henriette supplied the pollen, resulted in the new sort "Etoile de Portugal", coloured carmine-red with a yellowish reflex at the base of the petals...