As with several other of Standish's roses, the raiser was Trouillard, but evidently introduced by Standish: "While giving his [Rivers's] modicum of praise to Trouillard, of Angers, and his seedlings, we hardly think justice is done to that grand Rose Eugène Appert: nor do we think it to be, as he implies, inferior to its parent Géant. We have, moreover, heard of (and indeed seen the stock of), one from the same raiser called Grégoire Bordillon, which in size, shape, colour, and vigour of habit, is believed to be a decided best on its papa," Cottage Gardener, vol. 25, 1861, p. 302.