Article (website)  (2007)  Includes photo(s).
 
"La Noblesse" (=“Unknown Bourbon rose“)
Breeder: Pastoret, commercialised 1857 by Soupert & Notting as centifolia, and not as planned a a hybrid perpetual, as she bloomed only once. Class: passes as Centifolia, the found rose seems rather to belong to Bourbons. Growth: tall, needs support. Foliage: 5-leaflets, roundish with small tip, short serration, smooth, center axis hooked, young foliage with red circumference. Stipule: center light red. Calyx: cupped, lower half glandular. Sepal: short, laciniate. Bud: roundish, carmine. Bloom: large, very double, petals in the middle strongly ruffled, pistil visible as green point. Outer petals strongly reflexed outwards, establishing a high edge, carmine, does not fade muchPrickles: many, broad, strong, pointed and red on new canes. Fragrance: Strong, heavy. Comment: Same as the “Unknown Bourbon” in the Meldorf garden. “La Noblesse” in other rosaries is a soft pink rose.