Website/Catalog  (27 Jul 2011)  
 
Rosa ‘Napoleon’
Gallica rose.  Deep rose coloured flowers, shaded purple, large and double.  [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888, 1903), Rivers (1857, 1863)].
  
Horticultural & Botanical History
Raised by Hardy at the Jardin de Luxemburg in 1846.  
  
History at Camden Park
Included in a handwritten list of roses dated 1861, probably intended for a new edition of the catalogue that was never printed.  [MP A2943].
 
Notes
A rose called ‘Napoleon’ is also included among the China roses by William Paul, possibly a Hybrid China.  It has large, full, cupped blush-coloured flowers, mottled with pink.  But the rose listed by Macarthur is clearly categorised as a Gallica or Provins rose.

Book  (Dec 2000)  Page(s) 432.  
 
Souvenir des Français Gallica. Nicolas-Joseph Prévost (fils) (Rouen, France) pre-1828

Book  (Dec 2000)  Page(s) 237.  
 
Alexandre-le-Grand Gallica. Holland 1816

Book  (Apr 1999)  Page(s) 50.  
 
Napoléon [under the entry for 'L'Évêque', of which Jules Gravereaux says this rose is a sub-variety.] known, in Godefroy's nursery, under the name 'Grand Alexandre'.

Article (newsletter)  (Feb 1999)  Page(s) 2.  
 
Napoleon Before 1790... one of 15 Dutch gallicas that definitely or probably originated in the Low Countries and which are still in cultivation today

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 406.  
 
Napoléon Gallica, bright rose, shaded purple, 1846, Hardy. Description.

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 276.  
 
Français, Souv. des (Provins) Prévost ca. 1830; vivid light purple-pink, medium size, double

Book  (1910)  Page(s) 248.  
 
Napoleon Gallica. Flowers deep rose shaded with purple, large and double.

Book  (1906)  Page(s) 157.  
 
10.167. Souvenir des Français, Provins, Prévost pourpre clair

Book  (1880)  Page(s) Annex, p. 99.  
 
gallica, Napoléon, vivid carmine, large, full.