Book  (Feb 2009)  Page(s) 20.  Includes photo(s).
 
‘Léda’/’Painted Damask’: Les rosiers de Damas – blancs et à dominante blanches. Cultivé avant 1827. Obtenteur et parenté inconnus, mais son origine est probablement anglaise… Les pétales blancs piquetés de carmin sont nombreux et curieusement disposés: les plus courts se replient sur le cœur en une petite couronne bien régulière autour de laquelle rayonnent les pétales plus allongés du pourtour… Elle fleurit au printemps mais peut avoir quelques rappels, tard en automne… Il aime le soleil et ne donne rien en situation ombragée.

Book  (Aug 2002)  Page(s) 54.  
 
Leda
Damask, before 1867
Rated 8.2

Book  (Dec 1998)  Page(s) 358.  Includes photo(s).
 
Léda ('Painted Damask') Damask. Description... The milky white petals finish with a crimson edge... If pruned of old wood after flowering, this hardy, disease-resistant rose will produce highly perfumed flowers during late spring with some repeat in autumn. Some say it is not a Damask but should rather be in the Portland class...

Book  (1997)  Page(s) 172.  Includes photo(s).
 
Leda ('Painted Damask') Damask. Probably early 19th century. Description and cultivation... flowers: blush-pink to white, with crimson on the edges...

Book  (1997)  Page(s) 19.  
 
a choice specimen for a small garden

Book  (Sep 1996)  Page(s) 105.  Includes photo(s).
 
here and there among the flowers is one that has reverted to 'Pink Leda', its parent; a phenomenon that occurs in this rose from time to time... highly scented

Book  (Nov 1994)  Page(s) 41.  
 
('Painted Damask') Originated in England. Description... Red-brown buds. Button eye. Petals reflex into almost a ball...

Book  (Sep 1993)  Page(s) 250.  Includes photo(s).
 
'Leda' ('Painted Damask') Damask. There are two forms of this early nineteenth-century rose, just about identical except for color. The English prefer the white one, the tips of its petals stained with carmine, hence the nickname, 'Painted Damask'. The French prefer the pink... most books illustrate the English form... This book shows you the French. Leda was the maiden seduced by Zeus (disguised as a swan)... one of the children of the union was the beautiful and disastrous Helen of Troy.

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 308.  
 
Léda Damask, white to blush, edged crimson, ('Painted Damask'); Cultivated before 1827. Description.

Book  (1991)  Page(s) 73.  Includes photo(s).
 
England, prior to 1832. A Damask derivation. Description... Some flowers are almost entirely white, others carry the tint of the bud on the edges of the petals, earning it the name of 'Painted Damask'...