[From Journal de la Société d'Agronomie Pratique, January 1829, p. 30:] ROUSSEL-D'HURBAL, lieutenant général, commandant la 17o division militaire, gentilhomme de la chambre du Roi, rue Saint-Honoré, no 353.
[From Bulletin de Travaux de la Société d'Horticulture de la Seine, 1852, p. 45:] ROUSSEL, propriétaire, 6, rue Rougemont, à Paris.
[From Bulletin de Travaux de la Société d'Horticulture de la Seine, 1853, p. 238:] ROUSSELET (Charles), jardinier-entrepreneur, à Meudon (Seine-et-Oise)
[From L'Horticulteur français de mil huit cent cinquante et un, November 1, 1853, p. 243:] M. Rousselet, jardinier à Meudon, près Paris.
[From Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentleman, July 19, 1864, p. 45::] [Margottin] told me that it was obtained by a M. Roussel, at Merèdon near Paris, who had for thirty years been seedling from Gloire de Rosoméne, convinced that some day or other he should obtain something good from it. When on his deathbed, he told his gardener (Rouselet) that he had not much to leave him, but he would give him all his seedlings, and that if he managed well he would soon make his fortune.
[From Les Roses, by Eugène Forney & Hippolyte Jamain, 1873, p. 63:] Un amateur, M. Roussel, de Meudon, n'ayant rien obtenu de nombreux semis qu'il avait faits, les légua, à sa mort, à son jardinier Rousselet...
In The Old Rose Advisor, by Brent Dickerson, p. 132, there is an entry from Les Roses which says: "An amateur, Mons Roussel, of Meudon, having gotten nothing from the various sowings he had made, left their result at his death to his gardener Rousselet, who the following year discovered among them this rose of the first order ['General Jacqueminot'] ..."
[From Modern Roses 10, p. 731:] Roussel, Montpelier, France.
Uncle of L. Reymond.- see.
