Article (website)  (2007)  
 
"Nanette". Gallica. Short. 5 leaflets, rough, varying sizes, pedicel prickly. Calyx rounded, slightly glandular in the lower half. Sepals short, foliaceous. Buds rounded, deep carmine. Medium size bloom, deep bright carmine, well double, in the middle spiralled and ruffled petals, blooming pompon-like. Almost without prickles. Moderate fragrance. Not found in rosaries.

Book  (Jul 1998)  Page(s) 157.  
 
Manette. Lecoffé, before 1824. Habit: upright shrub, attains 1,60 m; thin branches; few prickles, bristles. Foliage: dark green; elliptical leaflets, thick and embossed, sometimes only 3 per leaf. Bloom: abunfant flowering; in pairs or by 3; small, double, flat; minute eye at the centre, long sepals. Colour: reddish pink; pales fast while aging. Fragrance: medium. This variety was obtained by Lecoffé, chief gardener of "Jardin fleuriste du roi", At Sèvres. All sources of the period name it "Manette". ...One day, the name was transformed to "Nanette" by error, and all contemporary authors...continued to call her thus...

Book  (1997)  Page(s) 145.  
 
(Gallica) Description and vital statistics. Double, bright crimson flowers opening flat, with a green eye, blotched or striped with purple...

Book  (Nov 1994)  Page(s) 34.  
 
Description... flowers are small but of intense colouring (vivid crimson, veined and streaked heavily with pruple)...

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 406.  
 
Nanette Gallica, rosy crimson marbled with purple, green eye, Prior to 1848. Description.

Book  (1986)  Page(s) 42.  Includes photo(s).
 
Nanette. Crimson, double, in clusters on a plant up to 1.5 metres. Blooms are sometimes veined and streaked.

Book  (2 Jan 1984)  Page(s) 40.  
 
'Nanette'. 1 to 1,2 m. 7 cm dia. Upright canes, few prickles, carry small lightly glossy foliage. The blood-red of the small double blooms is veined and streaked purple, particularly in the centre. The two colours slowly fade, but the contrast remains well perceptible.

Book  (1984)  Page(s) 30.  Includes photo(s).
 
"Nanette". Until recently I called this rose simply "Wuschelkopf" [tously-head], as I did not know her name. But now it has become evident that she is really that what I surmised for years: the Gallica-Rose "Nanette" from the nursery Dupont of 1802. ...It might sound curious, but this certainty came of all things from the other side of the globe, namely from New Zealand. "Nanette" appeared there with a typical portrait in a rose book.....When the trail of "Nanette" is followed back into the 19. century, all the alias in small print appear...alias "Invincible" alias "Incomparable"...

Book  (1967)  Page(s) 11.  
 
...another rosy-purple Gallica very similar to, but less thorny than [Anais Ségales]. This French Rose closely resembled one we photographed overseas called Nanette - a rose that was described by William Paul in the first edition of The Rose Garden - and was struggling and suckering up through the driveway alongside punga ferns.

Website/Catalog  (Nov 1959)  Page(s) 40.  
 
Gallica. Upright habit, small crimson flowers, pink veined. Small leaves. 3' x 2'.