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'Charles de Mills' rose References
Book  (Nov 1998)  Page(s) 21.  
 
Charles de Mills Gallica. Description. Produces the largest and most spectacular blossoms of all the Gallicas. Green eye.
Book  (Jul 1998)  Page(s) 72-74, 306.  Includes photo(s).
 
Bizarre Triomphant ('Charles de Mills', 'Rose ardoisé' (Prévost, 1829), 'Violette bronzée' (Prévost, 1829), 'Rose bleue' [?] (Prévost, 1829).)... currently in commerce under the name of 'Charles de Mills'... one of the finest gallicas... dated before 1790 because it was found in the catalog of François of that date. It is also in that of Descemet of 1803. ... it grew in the garden at Malmaison...Hardy stated that it originated in the Netherlands and was introduced by Du Pont.... It was Prévost in his catalog of 1829 who first used the synonyms 'Rose ardoisée', 'Violette bronzée', and 'Rose bleue'... ...Until [1836] the name 'Charles de Mills' never appears. It was probably adopted not before 1840. Loiseleur-Deslongchamps mentions in 1844...an Englishman called Mills in Rome whose "Italian pergola" covered with China roses, was famous: did the name of this Mills substitute that of 'Bizarre triomphant'? ...it is preferable to call this rose 'Bizarre triomphant' as Gravereaux did, rather than 'Charles de Mills'.

p. 306: Bizarre Triomphant Gallica (Dupont Hollande) Included in the collection of the Luxembourg Garden around 1852-1860.
Book  (1997)  Page(s) 140-141.  Includes photo(s).
 
From the Roseraie de l'Hay collection, an old cultivar. Description and vital statistics. A rose of uncertain origin but one of the best, especially in good soil... Large flowers open to a mixture of purple and deep red... quartered... sometimes a dark green eye. [Beales has not been successfully in finding out the identity of the man for whom this rose is named.]
Article (newsletter)  (1997)  Page(s) 44.  
 
One of a number of old French Gallica roses from the 1800s which were considered nearly thornless
Book  (Sep 1996)  Page(s) 28, 87, 167.  Includes photo(s).
 
Origins unknown. Efforts to identify Charles de Mills or Charles Mills have found only an Englishman who was a director of the East India Company in Victorian times, and it is thought unlikely that he ever had a rose named for him...
p. 87: [Photo] Needs sun to bring out its more subtle purple tints...
p. 167: [Photo]
Article (newsletter)  (Aug 1996)  Page(s) 3.  
 
Charles de Mills sends out many suckers, up to 10' long, and destroys its neighbors... [sounds mean, doesn't it?]
Book  (1996)  Page(s) 10, 11.  Includes photo(s).
 
Page 10: Charles de Mills ('Bizarre Triomphant') Gallica shrub... large, fragrant, beetroot-purple blooms crammed with infolded petals... it can do with some support...
Page 11: [Photo]
Newsletter  (Apr 1995)  Page(s) 23.  
 
"Twenty of the Best Hardy Roses for Nurserymen Selling Roses in New Hampshire" by Mike Lowe
Almost all the once-flowering old garden roses are hardy in most areas of the state. The exception is north of the notches where winter protection is a must for all but the Spinosissimas and a very few others.
Here are the ten best once-flowering roses—in no particular order.
Charles de Mills ("Bizarre Triumphant"). Gallica. 1841. Four-inch flowers mauve with plum-crimson centers, dark purple edges; double and well-quartered. One of the best examples of quartering. Fragrant. Bush to five feet. Dark green foliage on reddish canes. A strong grower.
Book  (1995)  Page(s) 30.  
 
[One of the author's fifty favorite roses] ('Bizarre Triomphant') Not listed in River's The Rose Amateur's Guide (1840) or Paul's The Rose Garden (1848). Description... Probably originated in France... Illustrates the difference between the formation of the blooms of many of the old roses and those most highly prized today. Without exception, the double roses from earliest days until the middle of the last century or a little later had short centre petals and much longer outer ones. This meant that the blooms would open out cupped or goblet-shaped. With roses such as the centifolias they might stay this way, but others, among them 'Charles de Mills' and many other gallicas, would then open out flat...
Book  (1995)  Page(s) 61.  Includes photo(s).
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