Newsletter  (2021)  Page(s) Summer issue, p. 6-7.  
 
[From "Louis-Philippe and Cramoisi Superieur – Getting it Straight", by Marion Brandes Summer 1995, pp. 6-8]
On the past annual rose rustles we have observed this rose in The Victoria Evergreen Cemetery and also in New Brunfels at several locations like the Startz house an the Lindheimer Museum. At different times I have referred to it with study names of “Startz Red” and “Victoria Evergreen Red”. The vivid crimson petals have light reverses and the outer edge of each petal rolls back (reflexes). Those two characteristics of the blooms are the most important in recognizing it in any picture or plant. Henry Curtis in ‘Beauties of the Rose’, 1850, provides a matching description; “Perhaps no rose gives so great a succession of flowers…which are the richest scarlet crimson, very glowing. The rose being pendulous, the edges reflex most gracefully, to exhibit more fully as it were the extreme richness and velvety scarlet of their inner sides…”. The leaves are small and very dark gray green. The bush comes in an under 3-foot version and also in a 5-foot version, unless this is entirely attributable to a slow buildup over many years. The blooms do not vary much during the different seasons. The newly stocked cultivar at the Antique Rose Emporium, Climbing Cramoisi Superieur is just exactly that. It has blooms identical to the above descriptions for Cramoisi Superieur. It comes from Slidell, Louisiana and I’ve been growing it since last all. The blooms are more double and often have difficulty opening. (This climber is not the one found in Williamsburg, Virginia last Spring, I will have more to say about it when my small plant has grown some). The Climbing Cramoisi Superieur was called Cramoisi Grimpant in France and England. Gertrude Jekyll called the bush “lovely as a dwarf hedge” and the climber even better as a “winter bloomer” that can attain a full 20 feet. The name Cramoisi Grimpant is also used in Graham Stuart Thomas’, ‘The Rose Book’ where an excellent color plate is exhibited. The rose that the Antique Rose Emporium sells as Louis-Philippe needs to be grown beside on of the above plants (“Victoria Evergreen Red”) to see if it is the same. I have no experience with it and I am never sure of its similarity when I see it briefly.

Newsletter  (2020)  Page(s) Summer issue, p. 9.  
 
[From "Along the Rustling Trail Past Finds", by Frances Brandes (reprint from Summer 1999 issue), pp. 8-9]
In Victoria’s Evergreen Cemetery we found Tip Top – a beautiful polyantha that is not a strong plant. Also there we saw “Victoria Evergreen Red China”, which grows all over Central Texas as well.