Book  (1988)  Page(s) 16, 18.  Includes photo(s).
 
Page 16: [Photo]
Page 18: Before the long-flowering species and hybrids arrived from China, European nurserymen and rosarians had little material to work with in their quest for remontancy in the genus. The only rose then known to them that repeated its flowering in the autumn was Rosa damascena bifera or 'Quatre Saisons'.

Book  (1987)  Page(s) 99.  
 
large, soft, deeply-serrated, pale green leaves; thicker stems heavily clothed with straight thorns; and tight clusters of double flowers. Suckers freely.

Book  (1987)  Page(s) 25.  Includes photo(s).
 
Plate 6: [Photo]
Page 25: 'Four Seasons Rose' (R. damascena bifera)... an Autumn Damask... called the 'Alexandrian Rose' in Egypt... Pliny in his Natural History (c. 100 AD) calls it the 'Trachyean Rose'.

Book  (Dec 1985)  Page(s) 23, 188.  Includes photo(s).
 
Page 23: [Photo]
Page 188: 'Quatre Saisons', R. x damascena bifera. Middle East. Extremely ancient. Thought to be R. gallica x R. moschata. Flowers: loosely double, pink, highly scented. Remontant. It tolerates pruning better than most others of this group. 4' x 3'.

Website/Catalog  (1985)  Page(s) 37.  
 

Quatre Saisons.....4 x 3’.

Website/Catalog  (1984)  Page(s) 12.  
 
Damask Roses
The canes are arching and covered with large and small prickles. The very fragrant blooms come in clusters and are flat with short inner petals, longer outer ones.
R. damascena semperflorens, R. damascena bifera, Rose des Quatres Saisons (Autumn Damask—Pre-Roman) Repeat Blooms
The foliage is light green on this upright bush. The bloom is a very bright pink, very double, quartered with a button eye on this very good garden rose.

Book  (1983)  Page(s) 51.  
 
Sir Thomas Hanmer gives the first mention of the Autumn Damask in England. "'The Monthly Rose,' a very Damaske in leaves and sent, but it beares two or three moneths more in the yeare than the ordinary Damaske, and very plentifully, if it stand warme. It is called often Rosa Italica."

Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 30.  
 
Quatre Saisons (Rose Damascus bifera) This very old Rose is fully double, cupped and quartered and is most useful for its repeat flowering in the late summer. It is also highly scented. One of the oldest roses. H. (R) 5 x 3’.

Book  (1976)  Page(s) 45-46.  Includes photo(s).
 
"The Romance of the Oregon Mission Rose" by Lewis Judson. Includes picture of the author with some information about his other publications.

This brief article tells how the plant which became known as The Mission Rose arrived in Oregon as a possession of Mrs. Alanson Beers in May 1837. She was part of a reinforcement group for the Oregon Methodist Mission. On July 16, 1837 a double wedding was performed in a grove near the Mission, with Daniel Lee officiating at the wedding of his cousin Jason Lee to Anna Maria Pittman. Jason Lee then officiated at the wedding of Cyrus Shepard to Susan Downing. These were the first all-white weddings in that county.

Mrs. Beers had brought a present for the Shepards, and felt bad that she did not have a gift for the Jason Lees, so she gave her rose plant to the new couple. Passing on a slip of the rose became a tradition in weddings performed at the mission.

The individual plant that Judson wrote about had survived in the same location for 99 years as of 1973. It had been given no care except for occasional dustings of wood ashes and removal of dead growth.

Judson writes, "the whole bush is only slightly over two feet across these many years later."

"The blossoms are multi-petaled pink, slightly over two inches in diameter, and continue to bloom into the late fall if given an occasional watering. It is decidedly not a cutting flower to be compared to the present day hybrids with their great shining blossoms of various colors and shades, but it does possess a quiet charm of its own." (p. 46)

Website/Catalog  (1976)  Page(s) 22.  
 
LA QUATRE SAISONS CONTINE (Lelieur 1811). Rose.