(5 Jul 1864)  Page(s) 5.  
 
Crystal Palace Rose Show....Of new Teas, there were shown ...Alba, or Alba rosea, a magnificent new Rose, somewhat in the style of Madame Bravy, light, almost white, with rosy centre.

(15 Mar 1864)  Page(s) 210.  
 
The following varieties appear to be as hardy as any kinds grown, and are, I suppose, the best of the year. H.P.'s Alfred de Rougemont, Baron A. de Rothschild, Le Baron Rothschild, Deuil de Prince Albert, Madame William Paul, Jean Goujon, Le Rhone, President Lincoln, Sœur des Anges, and Vainqueur de Goliath: most of these kinds are dark or high coloured, and of unusually robust and vigorous growth.

(20 Oct 1863)  Page(s) 306-7.  
 
New Roses.
...And now for the Hybrid Perpetuals.  We will take them according to the raisers.
Charles Verdier.
1.  Alpaide de Rotalier (Campy), transparent satin rose.
2.  Alphonse Belin (Gautreau), clear brilliant red.
3.  Joseph Durand (Ledéchaux), slaty, shaded red.
4.  Triomphe de Villecresnes (Ledéchaux), clear vivid red.
5.  Leopold Roi des Belges, clear velvety red.
Of these, none of which were raised by Mons. Verdier, 1 obtained a prize at the Floral Committee (Comité de Floriculture) of the Société Impériale et Centrale, at Paris in July, 1862; and 5, a prize at Brussels in the same month.  3 is not full enough.  2 has the under side of the petals a different colour- a decided blemish to my mind; while 4 seems from description to be good, a seedling of Triomphe de l'Exposition.  Of 1, 4, and 5, then, we may entertain reasonable hopes.

(20 Oct 1863)  Page(s) 306-7.  
 
New Roses.
...And now for the Hybrid Perpetuals.  We will take them according to the raisers.
Charles Verdier.
1.  Alpaide de Rotalier (Campy), transparent satin rose.
2.  Alphonse Belin (Gautreau), clear brilliant red.
3.  Joseph Durand (Ledéchaux), slaty, shaded red.
4.  Triomphe de Villecresnes (Ledéchaux), clear vivid red.
5.  Leopold Roi des Belges, clear velvety red.
Of these, none of which were raised by Mons. Verdier, 1 obtained a prize at the Floral Committee (Comité de Floriculture) of the Société Impériale et Centrale, at Paris in July, 1862; and 5, a prize at Brussels in the same month.  3 is not full enough.  2 has the under side of the petals a different colour- a decided blemish to my mind; while 4 seems from description to be good, a seedling of Triomphe de l'Exposition.  Of 1, 4, and 5, then, we may entertain reasonable hopes.

(20 Oct 1863)  Page(s) 307.  
 
New Roses.
...And now for the Hybrid Perpetuals.  We will take them according to the raisers.
Guillot fils.
20. Abbé Reynaud, dark slaty violet.
21.  Amiral La Peyrouse, dazzling superb red.
22.  Eugène Verdier, superb dark violet.
23.  Maréchal Suchet, beautiful crimson red, shaded with maroon.
24.  Paul de la Meilleray, purplish cherry rose.
Of these I should say that 20 and 22 are not colours that are suitable for us.  21 and 23 I should hope will be desirable varieties; while 24 with its large petals promises to be an acquisition.

(22 Nov 1864)  Page(s) 408.  
 
Trouillard. M. Trouillard is the foreman of the well-known nurseryman M. André Leroy, of Angers, and has been for many years known as a Rose raiser, although his flowers have generally come to us through Mr. Standish, of Ascot, who has purchased generally the stock, but finding, as I believe, that they were not generally up to the mark, he has given this up, and hence M. Trouillard comes out on his own account. His flowers generally want fullness of shape, and of those which Mr. Standish has let out belonging to him, there is hardly a flower, save Eugène Appert, that has risen to the position of a general favourite, and that sadly wants regularity of form, the outline being very imperfect, while André Desportes, Reynolds Hole, Madame Standish, Marguerite Appert, and others, must be numbered, I fear, amongst the things of the past.

(29 Nov 1864)  Page(s) 426.  
 
M. Eugène Verdier announces the following, of whose parentage nothing is said; and the only information is that he has a part of the stock. I hardly think that one would be justified in looking for much from them. These are -
Ardoisé du Châlet.- Slaty purple shaded with carmine.

(1863)  Page(s) 327.  
 
Large, full; purple shaded with violet at the centre.

(13 May 1875)  Page(s) 346.  
 
Synonymes (Teas), 1, Belle de Bordeaux, or Gloire de Bordeaux; 2, Bougère, or Clotilde; 3, Clara Sylvain, or Lady Warrender, or Madame Bureau; 4, Madame Maurin, or Adèle Pradel, or Madame Denis; 5, Madame Bravy, or Alba rosea; 6, Souvenir d'un Ami, or Queen Victoria; 7, Celine Forestier, or Liesis; 8, Le Pactole, or Madame de Challonge; 9, Madame Deslongchamps, or Adelaide Pavie; 10, Narcisse, or Enfant de Lyon; 11, Catherine Guillot, or Michel Bonnet; 12, Louise Odier, or Madame de Stella; 13, Modèle de Perfection, or Celine Gonod; 14, Augusts Mie, or Madame Rival; 15, Le Lion des Combats, or Beaute Francaise; 16, Louise Peyronny, or Laelia; 17, Madame Masson, or Gloire de Chatillon. These, in my opinion, should not have gone out; I will buy either on their own roots—say twenty plants. 18, Maurice Bernardin, or Exposition de Brie, or Ferdinand de Lesseps, or Augnete Neumann (I see no difference here); 19, Sénatéur Favre, or Puebla, or François Fontaine; 20, Sophie Coquerelle, or Julie de St. Aignant; 21, Virginal, or Madame Liabaud; 22, Madame Campbell d'Islay, or Triomphe de Valenciennes. —W. F. Radclyffe.

(13 May 1875)  Page(s) 346.  
 
Synonymes (Teas), 1, Belle de Bordeaux, or Gloire de Bordeaux; 2, Bougère, or Clotilde; 3, Clara Sylvain, or Lady Warrender, or Madame Bureau; 4, Madame Maurin, or Adèle Pradel, or Madame Denis; 5, Madame Bravy, or Alba rosea; 6, Souvenir d'un Ami, or Queen Victoria; 7, Celine Forestier, or Liesis; 8, Le Pactole, or Madame de Challonge; 9, Madame Deslongchamps, or Adelaide Pavie; 10, Narcisse, or Enfant de Lyon; 11, Catherine Guillot, or Michel Bonnet; 12, Louise Odier, or Madame de Stella; 13, Modèle de Perfection, or Celine Gonod; 14, Augusts Mie, or Madame Rival; 15, Le Lion des Combats, or Beaute Francaise; 16, Louise Peyronny, or Laelia; 17, Madame Masson, or Gloire de Chatillon. These, in my opinion, should not have gone out; I will buy either on their own roots—say twenty plants. 18, Maurice Bernardin, or Exposition de Brie, or Ferdinand de Lesseps, or Auguste Neumann (I see no difference here); 19, Sénatéur Favre, or Puebla, or François Fontaine; 20, Sophie Coquerelle, or Julie de St. Aignant; 21, Virginal, or Madame Liabaud; 22, Madame Campbell d'Islay, or Triomphe de Valenciennes. —W. F. Radclyffe.