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'Rosa gallica 'Officinalis'' rose References
Book  (Mar 1999)  Page(s) 7.  
 
Thibault IV... brought [this rose to Provins]... It retained its perfume in the dried petals. The apothecaries of that town initiated an industry, making medicinal preparations and other confections from R. gallica 'Officinalis'; the industry flourished for over six hundred years, selling its products worldwide and bestowing them upon such notable as Joan of Arc, Louis XIV, and Napoleon... Opoix, the same physician from Provins whose early nineteenth-century writings document the town's industry, reported how the Rose of Provins became known to the English in the late thirteenth century. About 1277 the Count of Egmont (Edmund, the first Earl of Lancaster), son of the King of England, had been dispatched to France to avenge a murder. After accomplishing his mission, he returned to England with red roses, the first of which Thibault had carried from Syria. The Count of Egmont as head of the house of Lancaster adopted this same rose on his coat of arms, thus the Rose of Provins also became known as the Red Rose of Lancaster...
Website/Catalog  (4 Jan 1999)  Page(s) 20.  Includes photo(s).
Book  (Nov 1998)  Page(s) 20, 22.  
 
Page 20: Officinalis Properly cultivated, it often serves as a ground cover.
Page 22: Officinalis Gallica. Description. The oldest and the most famous of the Gallica roses...
Website/Catalog  (Jun 1998)  Page(s) 26.  Includes photo(s).
Book  (May 1998)  Page(s) 54.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa gallica officinalis ('Common Provins Rose') Description... Flowers semi-double, notable for their size and fine purplish-red... Although a native of Southern France, this rose seems to dislike too warm a site in our gardens. The soil in which it is grown affects the size of the blooms. This is the rose grown principally for use in pharmacy -- from it is made syrup and conserve. No species of rose has produced more numerous descendants than the French or Provins Rose...
Magazine  (1998)  Page(s) 114. Vol 92, part 4.  
 
D. Mike Clarke. The Legend of Provins.....
Book  (1997)  Page(s) 9, 137.  Includes photo(s).
 
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Page 137: [Photo] (R. gallica officinalis, 'Apothecary's Rose', 'Red Rose of Lancaster', 'Rose of Provins', 'Double French Rose') Description and vital statistics. "After a good summer, when fully ripe, the small, oval hips are attractive in the autumn.
Book  (1997)  Page(s) 18.  
 
Among the best of the old roses for small gardens. It makes a superb mass planting or low hedge.
Book  (1997)  Page(s) 39.  
 
Apothecary's Rose can be grown in dappled shade
Article (newsletter)  (1997)  Page(s) 44.  
 
One of a number of old French Gallica roses from the 180ss which were considered nearly thornless
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