Newsletter  (Sep 2021)  Page(s) 22.  Includes photo(s).
 
[From "Why Heritage Roses?", by Dominique Massad, pp. 20-23]
Starting from a seed of Rosa filipes obtained from the Beijing Botanical Garden, I singled out the seedling which flowered the best. It was then crossed with Chinas such as ‘Sanguinea’, ‘Mme Laurette Messimy’ (Guillot fils, 1887) as well as ’Rosina’ [???], a hybrid of Rosa wichuraiana which had been sold as ‘Le Vésuve’. The desired traits have been achieved after more than 25 years of trials: ‘Gunsho’ and ‘Eridion’ for color, ‘Parc de Maupassant’ and ‘Château de la Mothe Chandeniers’ for their scent, ‘Château de Guillerval’ for the size of the blooms, and the reblooming traits found in ‘Rose delacroix’, ‘Belle de Sardaigne’ and ‘Rêve de Mireille’.

Newsletter  (Dec 2015)  Page(s) 2-4.  Includes photo(s).
 
[From "My Adventure in Ramblers", by Dominique Massad, pp. 2-6]
Thanks to exchanges with several foreign botanical gardens, I was able to acquire seeds [of Rosa filipes] from the Beijing Botanical garden. In the spring of 1982, the seeds were sown. From among those that germinated, I selected four....One developed imposing branches, and as early as 1986 bloomed. ...the original seeds were not those of the true species but the result of an uncontrolled natural hybridization....By 1987, I gave up using the latter two but continued with the first one that had bloomed. ....
In 1988 using the pollen of the initial Rosa filipeson a tea-noisette which had been sold to me as being 'Maréchal Niel' (but which turned out to be Rêve d'Or), the resulting cross has been given the name MARFIL. The seeds resulting from the crosses made in 1987 and planted in 1988 grew to seedlings which I culled according to what most interested me....
Of the MARFILS, among the seeds sown, only one survived and my attention was drawn to its leavesas well to the juvenile brancheswhich remain crimson all spring . This trait is no doubt due to the female parent with a Tea origin. I had to wait until 1991 for it to bloom...although the turbinated blooms are small, they are held on large corymbs and are scented. It is to date, the loveliest of the series and was put on the market in 2008 with the name of 'Parc de Maupassant'. ... The original roseis planted in my garden and the longest branches are over eight meters long...