Book  (2006)  Page(s) 11.  
 
Bouquet de Venus Gallica. No rebloom. Outstanding fragrance. Stout caned, moderately suckering, arching. Lerouge (Jager) , 18? (Demits and Worl; l'Hay). Large silky pompons of light pink, beautifully formed with large buttoned centers. A tall grower. This may be a shortening of the old name Bouquet Rose de Venus which was a miniature Agatha type, according to Dickerson's The Old Rose Adventurer.

Website/Catalog  (2006)  Includes photo(s).
 
Large silky pompons of light pink, beautifully formed with large, buttoned centers. This has been a taller grower for us than many Gallicas. This variety was lost to us in 1996, but in 2002 Joyce Demits gave us a beautiful plant of it from her collection. We are indebted to Joyce for so many roses, but we particularly thank her for this very rare Gallica, originally given to us by Barbara Worl who imported it from the Roserie de l'Hay in Paris.

Book  (Mar 1999)  Page(s) 41.  
 
Lerouge, France, date unknown. Description

Book  (Jul 1998)  Page(s) 74-75.  
 
Bouquet de Vénus Before 1814. Synonym: Bouquet rose de Vénus (Le Rouge, 1819). Habit: upright shrub; some prickles, bristles. Foliage: medium green, elliptical and rounded leaflets. Bloom: solitary or in pairs; medium size; double, flat; quarters not very clear; petals reflex when the bloom ages; long sepals. Colour: pink, slightly stained with white; pales to light lilac. Fragrance: strong. ...Redouté states that, in the 1810s this [variety] was in the collection of Antoine Le Rouge, a teacher of music in Dole, a passionate collector of roses. And this latter, in his Histoire généalogique des Rosiers, a manuscript dated 1819, remarks himself that the variety, which he names 'Bouquet rose de Vénus' is "still quite rare, known only at the garden of Malmaison". He gives a quite precise description: "Its wood is slim, yellowish, and spotted; the foliage light green and rounded...The buds are elongated, the bloom very double, flesh-pink and mixed with whitish incidences...; it is fragrant".

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 98.  
 
Bouquet de Venus (Provins) Lerouge ? ; ?

Magazine  (Jun 1933)  Page(s) 48.  
 
....il existait à la bibliothèque de Dôle un manuscrit de M. LE ROUGE, sur les roses....Vous avez vu qu'il fut un semeur de plus de 300 rosiers ; on lui doit : Bouquet Joli, Bouquet de Vénus qui sont encore à la Malmaison ; Iseult, Belle Iseult, Belle Bébé, Chérie, Louise Le Rouge, Clémentine, Bouquet Tendre, dont les noms sont venus jusqu'à nous et que l'on retrouve dans l'ouvrage de MM. SIMON et Pierre COCHET ayant pour titre : « la Nomenclature de tous les noms de Roses ».

Book  (1912)  Page(s) 46.  
 
Catalogue des Roses exposées
6. Bouquet de Vénus.—Provins.
Cultivée, dit Redouté, dans les pépinières de M. Le Rouge, propriétaire et organiste à Dôle.

Book  (1899)  Page(s) 27.  
 
Bouquet de Vénus, Provins, Lerouge, dans les Roses de Redouté

Book  (1824)  Page(s) Vol. III, p. 48.  
 
Bouquet de Vénus