Book  (1936)  Page(s) 617.  
 
du Roi pourpre (Portland) ? ? ; dark purple = Mogador
Roi pourpre (hybrid china) ? ? purple, center paler, medium size, double, expanded = Crimson superbe

Book  (1935)  Page(s) 159.  
 
Rose du Roi à Fleur Pourpre, called also Mogador, perhaps a sport but more likely a seedling of the Rose du Roi, is a brilliant crimson shaded with rich purple. The outline is circular, the fulness of the velvety petals within the cupped form is neat and "done with elegance." Bloom is large and full and deliciously fragrant. The tall robust stalks branch and throw out clusters of bloom from the end of the stalks and from side-shoots. This superb old rose was grown in France about 1819 and released some years later. Rose du Roi à Fleur Pourpre was written about at length in "Old Roses in Calvert County, Maryland" in the American Rose Annual of 1932. It was found among the old roses growing at Creek Side.

Book  (1932)  Page(s) 109.  
 
Mrs. Frederick L. Keays. Old Roses in Calvert Country, Maryland. Rose du Roi à Fleurs Pourpres. When trout-fishing one has sometimes to go through what I like to call "wallowing waters" which bother the head as well as the feet. We have had some wallowing waters to go through with this rose. It was not until we transplanted suckers and grew them in rich beds for all we could get that we made any progress. The original find was a group of about fifteen suckers and a remnant of the old plant in poor soil on an old planting-line on our own place. This old line evidently headed a series of "falls," the land from the hill-top where the old house stands being stepped away in wide terraces now washed and grass-grown, which in times past must have been part of an extensive artificial landscape, the "falls" dropping off to the east, south, and west, toward the water; interesting natural evidences but of no definite help in placing a date on a rose so found, yet suggestive. We have looked elsewhere for this rose and found it only once. This was on the Taney place on the Patuxent River, now the home of Benjamin Hance, Esq. Records of a will in Annapolis show that in 1708 one Benjamin Hance left this place to his heirs. The fine old house, the broad corn- and tobacco-fields along the river, have been scenes of lively social and political events in the past. It was the birthplace and boyhood home of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, - an old place, well kept throughout its history. On this place are well preserved roses from earliest times. Among the suckers which Mr. Hance gave us was one plant of this rose. This is another early location with suggestive associations. Our notes and observations on this rose are as follows. In the poor location the bushes were about 3 feet in height. Transplanted suckers grew to 5 feet, maybe more. The bush is strong and upright, making a close, upstanding plant. Straight green stalks, reddish on the sunny side, with prickles both large and small, red, dilated at the base, sharp, straight and down slanting. We have not observed any prickles hooked enough to be called falcate. Foliage quite large, 3, 5, or 7 leaflets, longer than oval, not much pointed, with serrations mostly single, occasionally double, with a good deal of red shading in the green of the young growth; upper surface of the leaflets smooth, under surface lighter and downy, sometimes with reddish veins. Petiole rather fine and long for the leaflets, but strong and glandulous. Many petioles are without prickles but some have a few between the stipule and end leaflet. Stipule is adnate, twopointed, glandulous. Bracts are broad and fleshy, single or two opposed, glandulous. Both stipules and bracts are foliaceous at times.
At its best, the bloom is quite double, coming out cupped, later flattening and quartering somewhat, making a neat, showy, large flower, of strong, upright habit. The color is a deep rose, sometimes carmine, shaded with purple, with short white shanks and occasional white streaks. The velvety petals are notched and cordate in the outer ranks, smaller, folded and ribbed, neatly laid down on the inner lines, as the illustration shows. The stamens are orange-yellow. Pistil is free and made up of many styles. The flower grows on rather a short peduncle, green, strong, hairy, which conforms more and less into the calyx, as the calyx varies, a point we have observed often.
From the above features, form of bush, green, upright stalk, peduncle, and so on, including autumn flowering of excellent form, one would expect the seed-pod to be an orange and red Damascena form. It has been and may be that, but perhaps more often is an orange-red, quite round hip, more like the Gallica. Few hips are well formed. The sepals, two simple and three compound or all foliaceous in form, do not reflex, as far as we have noted. At times there are six sepals instead of five. The fragrance is free and "oldtimey." The rose blooms all season. It propagates by suckers. We have spoken of this rose for more than two years as the “Brome Perpetual”, naming it for Mrs. Brome from whom we bought Creek Side. We now believe that it is Rose du Roi a Fleurs Pourpres, a form of R. damascena portlandica.

[Note - Photo of this rose, reprinted from Ethelyn Emery Keays Old Roses in the 1932 American Rose Annual is in Helpmefind's Photos].

Magazine  (22 Jul 1911)  Page(s) 350.  
 
The Parentage of Roses.
The following list of the world's Roses and their parentage has been compiled by Mr. Robert Daniel, 38 Russell Road. Fishponds, Bristol, and by his kind permission we are enabled to publish it...
Mogador... Damask Perpetual, Sport Rose du Roi

Magazine  (Jul 1907)  Page(s) 256.  
 
"Essai sur l'Origine des Roses Hybrides Remontants" par Viviand-Morel.
Mémoire présenté au Congrès de la Société française des Rosiéristes, tenu à Clermont-Ferrand le 15 juin 1907.
En 1844-45, Victor Varangot, de Melun, met au commerce: Perpétuelle Mogador, franchement remontante...

Book  (1906)  Page(s) 122.  
 
7.934. Mogador, Portland, pourpre, syn. Roi des pourpres

Book  (1902)  Page(s) 109.  
 
Rosiers de Damas....
3326. Bernard Mayador, rose vif

Book  (1899)  
 
Mogador, HR, cramoisi nuancé, syn. Roi des pourpres

Book  (1899)  Page(s) 45.  
 
Crimson superbe, hybride de Bengale, cramoisi

Website/Catalog  (1888)  Page(s) 76.  
 
Hardy Roses.
Remontant or Hybrid Perpetual.  These bloom abundantly in June, and again moderately in Autumn, while a few varieties bloom freely during the Summer.  For general culture they are the most desirable.  
Price, 35 cents each.  Ten or more varieties, our choice, $3.00 per 10.
Mogador...  Purplish crimson, distinct.