Book  (1990)  Page(s) 7.  
 
By the thirteenth century it was grown extensively around Provins, near Paris, its scent-retaining petals used for a famed conserve and medicaments -- 'officialis' denotes a plant approved by the apothecaries.

Book  (1989)  Page(s) 180.  
 
Tolerates shade, 3 x 3 feet, semi-double flowers

Book  (1989)  Page(s) 14.  
 
Rosa gallica officinalis -- thought to have been brought to Europe during the crusades by Thibault VI; it became the heraldic device of the Lancastrians when Eleanor of Aquitaine brought it to England at the time of her marriage to Henry II.

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 10.  
 
R. gallica officinalis From the thirteenth century this rose was grown extensively in Provins, south-east of Paris... According to Thomas Rivers, a Victorian rosarian, this rose was widely grown in Surrey for use by London druggists and he also quoted, in his The Rose Amateur's Guide (1837-77), a French source on its historic association: Somewhere about the year 1277 the son of the King of England [Edmund Earl of Lancaster], who had taken the title of Comte of Champagne, was sent by the King of France to Provins with troops to avenge the murder of the mayor of that city... on his return to England he took for his device the red rose of Provins ... (Opoix, L'Ancien Provins).

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 151.  
 
location 110/1, R. gallica L. 'Officinalis' Thory, Apotheker-Rose, GALLICANAE, France, 1310, carmine-red, semi-double, strong fragrance, medium size, bushy, branched, 0.7-1.2 m, medium-dark green medium-large matte foliage, 5 leaflets, orange to red medium size matte glandular rounded to pear-shaped fruit, extended sepals, fall off singly

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 49.  Includes photo(s).

Book  (1987)  Page(s) 1.  Includes photo(s).
 
Plate 1

Book  (1987)  Page(s) 5.  
 
Gerard listed it in his herbal (in 1596) as R. rubra.

Book  (Dec 1985)  Page(s) 26, 151.  Includes photo(s).
 
Page 26: [Photo]
Page 151: ('Red Rose of Lancaster', 'Rose of Provins', 'Double French Rose') (Europe, SW Asia. Of great antiquity) Showy shrub with erect yet bushy growth and coarse, dark greyish-green leaves. Flowers: light crimson, semi-double, large, highly scented and profuse in June.

Website/Catalog  (1985)  Page(s) 40.  
 
Rosa gallica officinalis..... 3 x 3’.