Booklet  (2009)  Page(s) 29.  
 
Triploid...Bengale Centifeuilles [Provenance: Vintage Gardens]

Article (website)  (21 Jan 2000)  Page(s) 1.  
 
Cartier's double variety would be 'Bengale Centfeuilles' (Cartier, 1804), syn. 'A Fleurs tres Doubles'... the attribution of 'Bengale Centfeuilles' to Noisette, which has formerly prevailed, appears to be incorrect...

Book  (May 1998)  Page(s) 148.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa indica multipetala ('Hundred-petalled China Rose') Description... Flowers faintly scented, double, but a little less so than R. centifolia, pink, a little darker pink than in the Common China... petals many-seriate, cordately notched, those at the centre curled and crumpled, scarcely allowing those stamens not converted to petals to be seen; bud bright red before opening; the later blooms, except in very favourable circumstances, rarely open well... Known in the trade as 'Hundred-petalled Bengal', 'Large Bengal', 'Double Bengal' and 'Wavy-leaved Bengal'... susceptible to black spot like all other China Roses...

Book  (Sep 1993)  Page(s) 72.  Includes photo(s).
 
Bengale Centfeuilles China. 1804. The name translates as the Hundred-petalled China... one of the oldest Chinas... dainty, a blend of soft pinks, deeper in hot weather, paler in cool. Parentage unknown.

Book  (Jun 1992)  Page(s) 28.  
 
Bengale Centfeuilles ('Bengale Oeillet'?, 'Bengale à Grandes Feuilles'?) China. Noisette, 1804. [Author cites information from different sources.]

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 137.  
 
Centfeuille (Bengal) Noisette before 1836; varies lilac-pink to light purple, edges wine yeast-coloured, medium size, ¾-full, semi-globular,; = Bangale à fleurs pleines Laffay.

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 266.  
 
fleurs, pleines, R. à (Bengal) Laffay ca. 1835; red, shaded lilac, double

Book  (1899)  Page(s) 4.  
 
A fleurs pleines, Bengale, Laffay, rouge lilacé nuancé

Book  (1854)  Page(s) 263, 265.  
 
p. 263: Die im J. 1800 nach Paris geschaffte Rose trug im J. 1803 einige Samenkörner. Drei davon wurden von Dr. Cartier 1804 ausgefäet, und einer der Sämlinge brachte eine gefüllte Rose, die man als eine Centifolie begrüßte....

p. 265: Im Frühjahr 1826 waren der bengalischen Rosen, in ihren verschiedenen Abtheilungen 25 oder 30, außer der ursprünglichen Bengalensis und Sinensis, die Centifolie, die Camelia, Ternaux, Hermite de Grandval, Belle de Plaisance oder Speciosa, diese nach Advenant ungemein schön, Sanguin, Cerise, Animating, Bichonne, Bleu de la Chine, Duchesse de Parme, Junon, Belle de Monza, oder Florentia, oder Pistoja, oder Palermo, unter allen diesen Benennungen eine ausgezeichnet schöne Blume, Eblouissante, Blanc à feuilles luisantes, Bourduge, Miss Smithson, Fénélon, à Fleurs striées, an deren Blumen zwar das schärfste Auge die Streifen zu erkennen nicht vermögend, à Bois strié, dieses ein Zufall, durch die Kunst festgehalten; von Noisetten hatte man die Lesbie, Lée, Lafayette, Bougainville, Azélie, Corali, Comtesse de Fresnel, Comtesse d'Orloff, Dufresnoy, deren aber nur wenige der Belle Noisette zu vergleichen.

Translation:
p. 263: The rose brought to Paris in 1800 bore some seeds in 1803. Three of them were given by Dr. Cartier sowed in 1804 and one of the seedlings produced a double rose that was hailed as a centifolia.

p. 265: In the spring of 1826 the Bengal roses, in their various divisions 25 or 30, besides the original Bengalensis and Sinensis, the Centifolia, the Camelia, Ternaux, Hermite de Grandval, Belle de Plaisance, or Speciosa, were exceedingly beautiful after Advenant, Sanguine, Cerise , Animating, Bichonne, Bleu de la Chine, Duchesse de Parme, Junon, Belle de Monza, or Florentia, or Pistoja, or Palermo, under all these denominations an eminently beautiful flower, Eblouissante, Blanc à feuilles luisantes, Bourduge, Miss Smithson, Fénélon, à Fleurs striées, on whose flowers the keenest eye is not able to recognize the stripes, à Bois strié, this a coincidence captured by art; of noisettes one had the Lesbie, Lée, Lafayette, Bougainville, Azélie, Corali, Comtesse de Fresnel, Comtesse d'Orloff, Dufresnoy, but only a few of them could be compared to the Belle Noisette

Book  (1854)  Page(s) 269.  
 
In the garden of Desprez.....yellow Tea, Nina, Madame Bureau, Pivoine violette and pourpre, [Bengale] Centifolia ....