Website/Catalog  (27 Jul 2011)  
 
Rosa ‘Bouquet de Flore’
Bourbon rose.  ‘Bouquet de Flore’ is a light, glossy carmine colour, the flowers large and double, cupped, sweet-scented and exquisite.  A hardy, vigorous and free-flowering rose with fine foliage.  An excellent autumnal bloomer and useful as a standard, pillar or for pots.  [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888), Rivers (1857, 1863), FC p.252/1850].
 
History at Camden Park
Included in a handwritten list of roses dated 1861, probably intended for a new edition of the catalogue that was never printed.  [MP A2943].

Book  (1936)  
 
Bouquet de Flore (bourbon) Bizard 1839; vivid dark carmine, cup form, fragrance 5/10, climbing.

Bouquet de fleurs (noisette) ? ? ; bright carmine-pink, large, double, cup form, fragrance 7/10, growth 7/10

Book  (1906)  Page(s) 25.  
 
1.676.  Bouquet de Flore,  Ile Bourbon,  Bizard  1839  carmin vif

Magazine  (Sep 1878)  Page(s) 206.  
 
The Bourbon Rose (Rosa Bourboniana) is a native of the Isle of Bourbon, and is supposed to be a hybrid between the common China and the Red Rose of Four Seasons.  It was introduced to France in 1822.  There are now a great number of varieties belonging to this class, including some of the best-known florists' flowers, such as Souvenir de la Malmaison, a rose that is nearly always in flower, and which no garden is complete without.  In the following list will be found most of the leading varieties:
Bouquet de Flora — Flowers deep crimson, and very effective.

Book  (1871)  Page(s) 350.  
 
The following are good Bourbon roses:- ....Bouquet de Flore,- deep carmine, good habit.

Website/Catalog  (1863)  Page(s) 10.  
 
B. Bouquet de Flora bright rose, good in autumn

Website/Catalog  (1861)  Page(s) 7.  
 
Bouquet de flore B., deep rose.

Website/Catalog  (1861)  Page(s) 13.  
 
Boquet d Flora

Website/Catalog  (1861)  Page(s) 63.  
 
Bourbon-Rose.
69. Bouquet de Flore, medium size, vivid pink.

Website/Catalog  (1860)  
 
Bouquet de Flore