Book  (Feb 2009)  Page(s) 20-21.  Includes photo(s).
 
‘Botzaris’: Les rosiers de Damas – blancs. Parents: non connus. Obtenteur: P.Cochet, 1856… Un Damas à fleurs de taille moyenne, blanc ivoire… D’abord globuleuses, elles s’ouvrent ensuite bien à plat... Le parfum en est doux et délicat, rappelant celui des Alba. La floraison longue et abondante… Pour bien se développer, il nécessite un sol riche ainsi qu’un soleil généreux.

Book  (2006)  Page(s) 20.  
 
Damasks.  Botzaris  no rebloom, outstanding fragrance, Habit - diagram 2.  Robert, 1856.  Provenance: Hortico.  
Smallish white flowers crammed with petals and a button eye.  Botzaris seems less pure a Damask than many in this list and, like 'Mme. Hardy', it may have other parentage, perhaps among the Gallicas. 

Book  (2003)  Page(s) 69.  
 
'Botzaris'. Damask Rose. Origin: Robert, France, 1856. Flower size: 8cm (3.1in). Scent: strong and sweet. Flowering: Once, mid-season. Height 1.2m (3.9ft). Spread: 1.2m (3.9ft). Hardiness: zone 5.
One of the best of all Damask roses, 'Botzaris' has extremely beautiful flowers that are deliciously sweet-scented.  They are pure white, with hints and tints of cream and pink at the centre at first, and they open out flat and quartered.  They have a great number of petals, of which a fair few towards the centre roll over into a fat button eye.  The flowers also have a hint of a green carpel at the centre, although this is not so conspicuous as in 'Mme. Hardy'. The flowers are backed by long, leafy sepals and lush, bright green leaves - in both these features, 'Botzaris' is a typical Damask.   The shrub is very healthy and not very prickly.  It may be pruned as a low bush at 80cm (2.6ft) or allowed to grow up to twice that height as as more lax shrub.  The traditional formula for pruning Damasks is to cut them back by a third, after they have flowered, to keep them compact.  Marcos Botzaris (1790-1823) was a hero of Greek independence. 

Book  (2002)  Page(s) 27.  
 
Not rated

Book  (2001)  Page(s) 196.  
 
Monsieur Robert, Monsieur Vibert's gardener [in 1846, later to succeed Vibert in ownership of the firm].

Book  (Dec 2000)  Page(s) 447.  
 
Robert. Closely affiliated with Vibert [?Robert] was his nursery foreman, then successor; location: Angers, France.

p450 1856. Damask. 'Botzaris'.

Book  (2000)  Page(s) 55.  
 
'Botzaris'. Raiser and parentage: unknown. Introduced 1856. Type Damask. Size 1m x 1m. When we read about the classical old roses, mention is often made of such roses as 'Fantin-Latour', 'Maiden's Blush', 'Madame Hardy', and 'Charles de Mills', 'Botzaris' deserves to be ranked among these old beauties for several reasons. The flower is flat across the top, is quartered, and comes from a fat pinkish bud, developing into a large 10-12cm quite double creamy-white bloom sometimes showing a green eye. It has a lovely scent and flowers all over a compact plant, with mid-green foliage, in the summer only. It is quite hardy and really is one of the most beautiful old roses. I saw it first in the magnificent garden of the late Valdemar Petersen of Love, Denmark.

Book  (2000)  Page(s) 128.  
 
‘Botzaris’ = Damas… boutons rosés à longs sépales feuillés… fleurs blanc ivoire à quartiers, très pleines et richement odorantes, d’ordinaire groupées en bouquet. Leurs pétales entremêlés entourent un petit bouton brodé. La floraison en juin-juillet est unique mais prolongée. Buisson dense et épineux, au feuillage sombre... il déteste les étés pourris. Introduit par Robert, 1856.

Book  (Apr 1999)  
 
Botzaris Robert 1856. the author cites several sources: "White yellowish...7-9 cm, full, pure white, yellowish when opening..."

Book  (Nov 1998)  Page(s) 24.  
 
Botzaris Damask. Description... clearly related to the Albas... to which it owes a debt for superb perfume and lovely coloring... Flowers: white, flat, and often neatly quartered.