Newsletter  (Dec 2015)  Page(s) 2-3.  Includes photo(s).
 
[From "My Adventure in Ramblers", by Dominique Massad, pp. 2-6]
Thanks to exchanges with several foreign botanical gardens, I was able to acquire seeds [of Rosa filipes] from the Beijing Botanical garden. In the spring of 1982, the seeds were sown. From among those that germinated, I selected four....One developed imposing branches, and as early as 1986 bloomed. ...the original seeds were not those of the true species but the result of an uncontrolled natural hybridization....By 1987, I gave up using the latter two but continued with the first one that had bloomed. It became the male parent in several crosses I performed, using the following roses as the female: ...Topaze... The ...crosses succeeded and were given the name...TOPFIL...
The TOPFILs gave riose to two types of roses, those resembling Rosa filipes, and the others 'Topaze'. In this first group and spared from being culled was a specimen with very shiny leaves that bloomed in 1991. Resembling 'Topaze', the blooms are salmon-pink, the canes are rather rigid, and while not being a recurrent bloomer it is perfumed. It has been given the study name "Acturus"... and has not yet been put on the market.