Newsletter  (Apr 2014)  Page(s) 20.  
 
[From "What is the next step?", by John Hook]
Etoile de Portugal.... Hybrid Gigantea bred by Cayeux in Lisbon 1898
We had obtained Vicomtesse Pierre de Fou from Beales, but this was obviously incorrect. We had suspicions this was a Hybrid Gigantea. A few years later we obtained Vicomtesse Pierre de Fou from Cavriglia which was more accurately named so we needed to find another name for the Beales version. After several years of research and study, we identified this rose as Etoile de Portugal, the first Hybrid Gigantea recorded in Europe.

Book  (2006)  Page(s) 92.  
 
"Beales Vicomtesse Pierre de Fou". Tea Noisette. Fair rebloom. Outstanding fragrance. Habit: No. 2 [see drawing]. Breeder and date unknown. Provenance [Beales].
This is not the true variety of VICOMTESS PIERRE DE FOU as illustrated by Graham Stuart Thomas and grown at l'Hay. Very pendulous flowers, large and full with large petals, rather similar to BELLE PORTUGAISE, very fragrant, a rich crimson-pink to carmine with salmon shadings.

Book  (2006)  Page(s) 238.  
 
'Vicomtesse Pierre de Fou'. HT Cl. (Tea Noisette). Good reliable rebloom, outstanding fragrance, Habit No. 1 [see drawing]. Sauvageot, 1923. Provenance: Pickering.
Finally the true variety has come to us from those wonderful people at Pickering Nurseries in Canada! We are indebted to them for the years of work they have done bringing the finest roses, both old and new to North America. Blossoms are tight rosettes that tend to yellow ochre on the outer petals, the inner petals are often carmine and yellow blended. Very fragrant of Tea.

Book  (2000)  Page(s) 613.  
 
‘Vicomtesse Pierre du Fou’: Moderne - Grimpant à grande fleur – rose orangé, remontant. Ce sarmenteux inclassable, né d’un Noisette et d’un Hybride de Thé, exige du soleil pour bien fleurir et de l’espace pour se développer… grandes fleurs pleines au parfum prenant, aux pétales roulés en papillotes, orange cuivré veiné de carmin vif, virant au rose orangé intense.. Un peu frileux, il est proposé par les rosiéristes spécialisés. Zones 6-11. Sauvageot, France, 1923. ‘L’Idéal’ * ‘Joseph Hill’.

Book  (Apr 1999)  Page(s) 384.  
 
Vicomtesse Pierre de Fou Sauvageot 1923. Parentage: 'L'Idéal' x 'Monsieur Joseph Hill'. The author cites information from different sources... Deep magenta pink... Deep orange with rose and vermilion splashes... shrimp pink with gold shadings...

Book  (Jul 1993)  Page(s) 83.  
 
Vicomtesse Pierre du Fou Description... The flowers are of a coppery-pink colour, deeper at first, paling a little later on...

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 624.  
 
Vicomtesse Pierre du Fou Climbing Hybrid Tea, red aging to deep coral pink, 1923, 'L'Ideal' x 'Joseph Hill'; Sauvageot. Description.

Book  (Jun 1992)  Page(s) 225.  
 
Vicomtesse Pierre du Fou Sauvageot, 1921. Noisette. Parentage: 'L'Ideal' x Joseph Hill'. [Author cites information from different sources.]

Website/Catalog  (1985)  Page(s) 48.  
 

Vicomtesse Pierre du Fou....

Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 39.  
 

Vicomtesse Pierre de Fou (Climbing Hybrid Tea) Luxuriant, glossy, foliage of coppery dark green providing an ideal foil for the fragrant, double, quartered flowers which are coppery-pink when fully open. 1923 (R) 15 x 10’.

[refer also to the 2006 reference]