(1987)  Page(s) 105.  
 
Produced by Mr. Blair, of Stamford Hill, in 1845. Not perpetual-flowering. Dean Hole remarked that it would soon cover the side of a large house.

(1987)  Page(s) 230.  
 
A double-white Rugosa hybrid... ('The Muslin Rose') The thin almost transparent, chalk-white petals suggesting this name.

(1966)  Page(s) 56.  
 
Blanche Moreau, a tall-growing, pure white Damask Moss with distinctive brown mossing, had as its parents two distinguished roses: the lovely blush-white Contesse de Murinais and the Perpetual White Moss. It is supposed to flower again in the autumn but we get few, if any, late blooms. We were able to procure this rose in New Zealand, where it is quite well-known. In a dry hot summer it needs water and extra manuring if it is to bloom well in the autumn. 

(1987)  Page(s) 24.  
 
Sometimes referred to as 'Blush Damask' which appears to be the correct name... arching.

(1966)  Page(s) 23.  
 
...we had begun to think that Madame Hardy had a serious rival in the pure white Damask,  Botzaris. In fact, we still consider this a very beautiful rose, as well as an easy and very floriferous one. The flat, quartered blooms, with a green eye, are not unlike those of Madame Hardy, though no hint of pink appears in the petals, neither are their centres concave.  Botzaris with its upright growth of medium height, is a valuable plant in our white and yellow border, and never fails to produce an abundance of perfect, richly scented, white flowers. It is also completely healthy and trouble-free, and strikes readily from cuttings,  Madame Hardy, failing badly in this respect. 

(1966)  Page(s) 101.  
 
'Bourbon Queen' .....We grow our plant imported from England, with other shrubs on a sunny bank; but it does grow in some early gardens here, as we have since discovered. This rose has medium-sized, circular, slightly cupped, open blooms of a rose-carmine, that assume a lilac flush and faint veining as they age.

(1987)  Page(s) 44.  
 
Monsieur Dupont, who was in charge of the gardens at Malmaison in the days of the Empress Josephine, was particularly interested in the foliage of roses, and he bred two astonishing varieties of centifolias. These were the 'Lettuce-Leaved Rose' and the 'Celery-Leaved Rose'. The latter, with deeply cut and serrated leaves, has not survived the passage of time, though the former is still available. One of Redoute's finest paintings was of R. centifolia bullata, or the 'Lettuce-Leaved Rose' -- the 'Rose a Feuilles de Laitue', which has extra large, puckered and wrinkled leaves.

(1987)  Page(s) 61.  
 
R. parviflora It has been linked in some books with R. gallica or the Provins Rose, though now we find it amongst the Centifolias. Illustrated by Redouté. 'Pompon de Burgogne,' 'Pompon de St Francis,' 'Pompon de Rheims'. There are two forms: one growing to 18 inches in height and the other being a little taller.

(1987)  Page(s) 127.  
 
(description) Slightly taller than 'Rosa Mundi.' Invasive. The colour is a pale pink, so heavily striped with purple-shaded carmine that it gives the impression of being a deep toned flower though this varies a little according to the season.

(1987)  Page(s) 10.  
 
Actually bred in Holland but was sent, unnamed, to the famous French rose breeder Laffay who decided, on seeing the unusual shade of the flowers, that it must have an ecclesiastical name. When the French author Honoré de Balzac dined with Georges Sand in 1840 and saw a bloom of 'Cardinal Richelieu', he thought he had discovered the blue rose, so sought after in those days, for the creation of which English and Belgian horticulturalists were offering a prize of 500,000 francs!