Newsletter  (Feb 2016)  Page(s) 3-4.  
 
[From Two Roses of Pierre Vallet", by Darrell g.h. Schramm, pp. 2-5]
‘Flore Carneo’ seems to be a very early Damask Perpetual. “Ah, the mysterious Damask Perpetuals!” writes Brent Dickerson, declaring them “obscure in their origins, even ‘way back when!” The so-called ‘Monthly Rose’, he continues, was known in Italy by 1633 and in Holland and England by 1669. Ah! Even earlier this small, pale, double Damask Perpetual, also known as ‘Blush Monthly’, ’Quatre Saisons Carne’, ‘Rosa omnium calendarum', ‘Tous les Mois’, ‘Italian double everlasting Rose’, and ‘Flore Pleno Carneo’—names mostly indicating its repeat blooming trait—apparently was first mentioned by Dionysii Joncquet in Hortus in 1659. But now we see it named in Pierre Vallet’s book of 1623. Furthermore, this may be the same rose which Montaigne saw when he visited Ferrara, Italy in 1580, a rose, he wrote, “which blooms every month of the year.” According to the French nurseryman Fillassier in 1791, this year-round rose or ‘Tous les Mois’ came in three varieties: “fleshcolored, white-flowered, and very pale pink.” Abbe Le Berriays in 1789 also refers to the “double flesh-colored” ‘Tous le Mois’ rose and Rossig in 1799 to ‘Rosa calendarum carnea’. ‘Flore Carneo’ would be “fleshcolored” (a description I shun, preferring incarnadine, blush, or light tan). The canes bear fairly straight prickles in some profusion; the pedicels are bristly. The leaves consist of five leaflets. Unfortunately, the rose is no longer with us. Of the four Autumn Damasks mentioned in the old literature, the white, the blush, the pink, and the red, it seems that only the pink remains.

Book  (1623)  Page(s) 9, pl. 69.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa carneo.
De laque fort blanchette, & finir d'un peu plus obscur, l'estamine jaune.