Book (Apr 1999) Page(s) 39.
Cora Gallica. Lecomte pre-1828. The author cites information from different sources... Purple violet... velvety deep red... Purple violet red... dark velvety violet, united in clusters of three or four; and having the appearance of a ranunculus... One sees Savoureux listed as the breeder; Lecomte's roses were evidently taken over by Savoureux about 1828.
Book (Jul 1998) Page(s) 143-144. Includes photo(s).
Cora. Lecomte, 1827. Synonym: Caura (?). Habit: straight shrub, attains 1.20 to 1.50 m, but arches; quite strong prickles, very fine bristles. Foliage: medium green; elliptical leaflets (often 3 instead of 5). Bloom: solitary or in inflorescences of 2 or 3; small, well double, cupped quite flat; petals quartered at the beginning, then forming a thick pompon rose; small green-yellow eye at the centre. Colour: shaded and velvety violet-purple; petal base white at the centre; ages to violet. Fragrance: moderate....Prévost, in his catalogue of 1829, indicates that this variety is from a certain Lecomte, an amateur at Rouen; Savoureux, who was nurseryman in the same town and who is often attributed with this rose, only commercialised it. Hardy, in his Journal of 1828, gives a detailed description, in the section "Novelties": "Pretty small shrub with straight canes, armed with small fine prickles, scattered, not much curved, interspersed with small hairs; petioles with glands; flat foliage composed of three to five leaflets, some ovoid, the others lanceolated, dark green above and whitish green below, irregularly serrated; numerous blooms, double, small, perfectly formed, having the regular form of a pretty ranunculus, together in clusters of three or four; brown-violet velvety and shaded petals, symmetrically arranged, rolled in a ring at the centre, a little incised at the top; white streaks at the extremitiy."...It seems that what was 'Cora' of Lecomte was equally spelled as 'Caura' after the 1840s (Verdier, Van Houtte, etc.)...
Book (1936) Page(s) 134, 172.
p. 134: Caura (Provins) ? ? ; dark violet-purple, small, double, globular
p. 172: Cora (Provins) Savoureux ? ; velvety brownish purple-violet, small, double, center rolled in ring form, ranunculus-form, in clusters of 3-4, floriferous, growth 3/10. Sangerhausen
Book (1910) Page(s) 193.
Cora introduced between 1874 and 1902
Book (1906) Page(s) 31.
1.983. Caura, Provins, pourpre violacé
Book (1902) Page(s) 101.
[Among the roses grown at L'Haÿ in 1902] Race des Rosiers de Provins [Gallica] No. 2971. (Savoureux) pourpre violet.
Book (1902) Page(s) 101.
Rosa Gallica..
2971. Cora (Savoureux), pourpre violet
Book (1885) Page(s) Vol. I, p. 234.
Provins. Cora Savoureux. Petit arbrisseau à tiges droites; aiguillons épars, fins, peu recourbés, entremêlés de petits poils ; pétioles glanduleux; feuilles à 3 ou 5 folioles ovales ou lancéolées, irrégulièrement dentées, d'un vert blanchâtre en dessous; fleurs petites, doubles, nombreuses, très bien faites, d'un violet brun velouté, imitant la forme d'une renoncule, réunies trois à quatre en corymbes; pétales symétriquement rangés, roulés en anneaux au centre, peu incisés au sommet, à onglet blanc.
Book (1858) Page(s) 205.
Rosa gallica.
Caura, Blumen klein, voll, kugelförmig, dunkelpurpurviolet.
Translation: Rosa gallica.
Caura, the small, full, globular blooms are a deep purple-violet.
Book (1849) Page(s) 580.
Rosa gallica. Newer, select varieties with double blooms...with carmine-red, purple-red and other red roses....Caura, small, expanded, dark violet-purple
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