Book  (1936)  Page(s) 93-94.  Includes photo(s).
 
Red Cabbage (Red Provence) Large, rose pink, deeper in centre. Pedicel glanded, hip oval glanded. Calyx edged glands, point beyond but not leafy. Leaves large, coarse texture, boldly serrate, hardly thorny below, gland edged. Wood tinged red, thorns small, nearly straight, red glands.
This is, we believe, the original Cabbage Rose, illustrated by Redouté.

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 643.  
 
Sanguinea (Provins) Calvert ca. 1835; pink, shaded and flecked blood-red, medium size, very double

Website/Catalog  (1929)  Page(s) 68.  
 
Provence or Cabbage Roses
All Provence or Cabbage Roses are $1 each
Almost as ancient as human history, these Roses are still treasured for their hardiness and fragrance. With the Damask, French and Moss Roses they deserve to be cherished in every garden, where a little space can be given them. They bloom only once a year. They should be given good care, but endure even the most unfavorable conditions.
Red Provence. (Old.) Clear, crimson-red flowers of large size, cupped and very fragrant. A dwarf spreading sort whose flowers are somewhat fleeting but very freely produced.

Book  (1863)  Page(s) 205.  
 
Rosa centifolia.
The Provence Rose, with its Hybrids.
11. Scarlet Provence (Regent); flowers rosy lilac, their centre deep rose, large and double; form, expanded. Habit, branching; growth, vigorous. A good seed-bearer.

Website/Catalog  (1861)  Page(s) 8.  
 
Provence, red

Website/Catalog  (1851)  
 
Deciduous. 47. Red Provence

Magazine  (1 Dec 1838)  Page(s) 280.  
 
From the uxurious manner in which the Romans lived in this country for many ages, and from their habit of wearing wreaths of roses at their banquets, it is more than probable that they introduced many kinds of their own roses into the gardens which they formed in this island.  The principal variety of the Provence rose are the Common, Scarlet, Blush, White, Rose de Meaux, Pompone, Rose de Rheims, Childing’s Blandford, Rose of St. Francis, Shailer’s...

Book  (1838)  Page(s) 209.  
 
Sanguinea Provins Rose/Gallica. Flowers: very full, middle-sized; pink, shaded and spotted with blood-red.

Website/Catalog  (1837)  Page(s) 3.  
 
Roses for the Summer Rose Garden, that bloom only in May, June, July.
Provence, or Cabbage Roses (Rosa centifolia).
Scarlet...  carmine; cupped and double.

Book  (1823)  Page(s) Vol. I, p. 49.  
 
Varietates R. Gallicae maxima observandae, a cell Thoryo enumeratae:....
 αα) atropurpurea velutina. Nouv. Duham. VII. 41. v. 5. R. sanguinea Röss. ic. no. 28. R. nigra. R. plutonis Miss Lawr. t. 39. cum pluribus subvarietatibus. e. gr. Velours-pourpre, la belle Violette foncée, la Violette prolifère, la Noire couronnée, la Superbe en brun, le Pourpre charmant. Vid. etiam Andr. Ros. f. 34. R. centifoliae varr. subnigrae.