ROSA LHERITIERANBA 
Roses, does not mention the Boursault Rose in the second edition of 
his Botaniste Cultivateur , which appeared in 1 8 1 1 . Thory, in his 
Monographic des especes et des varietes du genre Rosier / published in 
1820, speaks of “un arbrisseau connu dans les pepinieres sous le 
nom de Rosier Boursault qu’on soupconne hybride d’un Rosier des 
Indes et d’un Rosier des Alpes.” J. P. Vibert, in the catalogue of 
the Roses cultivated by him in June 1822, gives the Boursault Rose 
under Hybride Bengale, but without author or date, although he 
carefully mentions the date of introduction of several other varieties. 
Noisette has a Rose “ Agathe Boursault ” in his list of 1827, but 
does not mention the Boursault Rose itself. Parkman, 2 writing in 
1866, speaks of the Boursault Rose as well known in America, and 
describes the “ Old Red Boursault ” and its improved hybrids 
“ Amadis,” “ Blush Boursault, ” “ Inermis,” “ Elegans,” “ Gracilis.” 
As the origin of the first Boursault Rose is somewhat obscure, 
I have thought it advisable to give all the information which it has 
been possible to obtain upon the subject. The plate here given was 
drawn from a plant growing at Warley of the variety “Calypso,” a 
form which comes nearer in its characters to Rosa pendulina than to 
Rosa chinensis. 
1 p. 132. 
2 Book of Roses, pp. 14 1-2. 
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