Book  (Sep 1993)  Page(s) 39.  Includes photo(s).
 
Description... Flowers: soft pink, usually borne in clusters, quartered, fragrant... Thorny, possibly indicating the influence of the Damask Rose in its breeding. Probably introduced around the same time as 'Agathe'.

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 359.  
 
Damask (OGR), medium pink. Before 1813. Flowers mauve-pink, very double, large; very fragrant; bushy, shrubby (about 4 ft.) growth. Grown in the gardens of Malmaison in 1813.

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 4.  
 
Gallica (OGR), pink, quartered, Cultivated before 1815.

Book  (1993)  Page(s) 14, 40.  Includes photo(s).
 
Page 14: [Photo]
Page 40: Description... A lax-growing shrub vying with 'La Ville de Bruxelles' for the splendour of its flowers. These are unusually large and full, deep pink and very fragrant. The shear weight and quantity of the flowers often weighs down the branches to the ground...

Book  (1992)  Page(s) 330.  Includes photo(s).
 
Flowers: double, fragrant, 4- to 5-inch, pink, buttonlike centres. Unsupported, the 4-foot plants will arch to the ground under the weight of the copious flowers.

Book  (1990)  Page(s) 16.  
 
Inclined to hang; unusual purplish-pink heavy-headed flowers

Book  (1989)  Page(s) 6.  
 
Bred for the Empress Josephine at Malmaison by M. Eugene Hardy.

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 50.  Includes photo(s).

Book  (1987)  Page(s) 22.  
 
Raised in 1813 in the garden of the Château of Malmaison. Named for the second wife of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Book  (Dec 1985)  Page(s) 152.  
 
Europe, c. 1800. Origin and parentage unknown. Highly scented, soft pink flowers, quartered, reminiscent of crumpled and torn crepe paper. Foliage: grey-green. Growth: dense, slightly arching and somewhat thorny. Beales' particular clone seems fairly distinct but occasionally similar varieties crop up for identification, suggesting that others once existed as garden varieities. Graham Stuat Thomas suggests a Damask influence in the 'Agathe'-type Gallicas. 4' x 4'.