Article (magazine)  (2023)  
 
'Louis Philippe' (China, Guérin 1834), Source/Accession JCRA [JC Raulston Arboretum, Raleigh NC]  ...Estimated ploidy level(x) 3 

Magazine  (2021)  Page(s) 22. Vol 43, No. 4.  Includes photo(s).
 
Margaret Furness.  Random Notes About Chinas. 
Some of the variation in the others is soil-dependent, eg whether they are predominantly red or pink, and the height they reach is partly decided by whether they have to climb to reach sunlight. The photo on the left shows the red flowers of “Carlsruhe Red China”, which may be Louis-Philippe (Guérin 1834), scrambling up through the Lijiang Road Climber.

Newsletter  (2021)  Page(s) Summer issue, p. 7-8.  
 
[From "Louis-Philippe and Cramoisi Superieur – Getting it Straight", by Marion Brandes Summer 1995, pp. 6-8]
Louis Philippe This is the red China rose we most often find in the Houston area and across the Gulf Coast. I find the blooms very changeable by season. In Spring they are medium size, outer petals are red and inner petals are pink. In the hottest days of Summer the blooms are small, outer petals are pink and the inner petals are nearly white. In the Fall the blooms are the most different, when they are dark luminous red and much larger. The form is at first globular but the open bloom is cupped. The fragrance is the most important characteristic: this is the only China I have encountered with a good fragrance. At times the fragrance is among the very best, but it is also undependable.
‘The Rose Manual’ by Robert Buist in 1844 advises that Louis-Philippe “has not an equal for growth, in good soils frequently making a shoo six feet long in one season. The flowers are large, perfectly double of a globular form. The circumference of the bloom is of a dark crimson color, the center a pale blush, making it altogether perfectly distinct.” In ‘The Rose Garden’ by William Paul in 1903, he describes the blooms of Louis-Philippe as “dark crimson, the edges of the center petals almost white, of medium size, full; for globular.” ‘The American Rose Annual of 1925 reported that Louis-Philippe “has done so well in Florida that it is called the ‘Florida Rose’.” And the Annual of 1939 described the same rose as having the “stimulating fragrance of spices.”
I have encountered the name “Florida Rose” quite a number of times and, when I was in Central Florida a few years ago for the Heritage Rose Conference, I drove through old neighborhoods in small towns watching for red roses. I encountered quite a few Louis-Philippe’s in the old town of St. Cloud. They were all quite large, usually growing as arching shrubs standing in the open lawn (about 6’ x 8’). One of them had managed to grow canes all the way into a tree, there a bloom was perched 15’ high. The blooms and the fragrance were unmistakably the same as our own Louis-Philippe so common along the Texas Gulf Coast. In Texas we most often see a large bush form, but once in awhile we encounter a more vigorous longer caned plant that grows blooms and grows more rapidly, surely this must be Climbing Louis-Philippe.
The Antique Rose Emporium sells this rose labeled as Cramoisi Superieur. Since it is one of their most popular roses, there are thousands of them across the Country now, incorrectly labelled. The rose the Emporium sells as Louis-Philippe has solid red flowers without fragrance and does not grow to large size. The description listed for Louis-Philippe in the 1993 Vintage Gardens Catalog matches the above descriptions closely, however, referring to a “rich cherry perfume”. The Vintage Gardens stock is said to come from Ruth Knopf who collected it in a Charleston, NC, cemetery. Apparently the West and East Coasts are correct with regard to Louis Philippe.
Noticing a China called Louis-Philippe d’Angers in the Vintage Gardens Catalog described as follows “found throughout California is striped markedly with pale pink on all the petals in Spring and Fall”, I ordered the rose planted it in my garden for observation. In early Spring 1994 (March) it bloomed with stripes, although light the stripes were on every petal. Only the first bloom cycle was striped, however, because they did not reappear the rest of the year. I have seen the same striping on an Antique Rose Emporium Cramoisi Superieur plant owned in a garden in Pasadena, Texas also. It is rare, but some bushes are capable of it. Nevertheless, it is a variation of Louis-Philippe

Magazine  (2020)  Page(s) 50. Vol 42, No. 4.  Includes photo(s).
 
Pat Toolan. Regional Report.
Then a quick stop at the Lyndoch Pioneer Reserve where a hedge of the red china Louis-Philippe (1833) is planted.

Magazine  (2013)  Page(s) 38. Vol 35, No. 1.  
 
Pat Toolan. Preloved Roses Become Today's Favourites.
There are two magnificent bushes of "Carlesruhe Cemetery Red China" on the graves of Anna Janitz, 12 1/2 who died in 1882 and also Johann Dorwald who died in 1876. These are both bushes of Louis-Philippe (Guerin, 1833) as identified by Phillip Robinson and Gregg Lowery (Vintage Gardens, California) and recently Mike Shoup (Antique Rose Emporium, Texas). Both bushes have remarkable bases which are enormous and show their ripe old age.

Website/Catalog  (27 Jul 2011)  
 
Rosa ‘Louis Philippe’
Categorised as a Tea-scented China rose by some authors, although included by Paul among the Crimson China roses in the early editions of The Rose Garden, and in Les Plus Belles Roses au début du XXe Siécle.  It has very large flowers, full and globular in form, with dark crimson petals and almost white edges.  [Paul (1848, 1888, 1903), FC p.243 and p.248/1835, FC p.271/1836, FC p.233/1848, Amat].
  
Horticultural & Botanical History
Raised by Guérin in 1834.  
  
History at Camden Park
Arrived from Veitch’s Nursery, Chelsea on Dec, 31st, 1859 on board the ‘Hollinside’ but dead on arrival.  For more detail see Rosa ‘Ducher’.

Booklet  (2009)  Page(s) 29.  
 
Triploid...Louis Philippe [Provenance: Antique Rose Emporium]

Book  (2007)  Page(s) 361.  
 
Louis-Philippe (Guérin, -1833) Ch. Syn 'Crown', 'Duval', 'Louis Philippe d'Angers', 'Philippe I', 'Purple'. Purple red. See also 'Président d'Olbecque'.

Book  (2006)  Page(s) 86.  
 
Louis-Philippe China. Good, reliable rebloom. Outstanding fragrance. dense mass of light wood often wider than tall. (Provenance: Knopf/Et al) Bushy, angular and tall growing, with flowers crimson outside, rose-red at the center and petal edges, with a rich cherry perfume. This rose is often sent out as CRAMOISI SUPERIEUR.

Book  (2000)  Page(s) 78.  Includes photo(s).
 
p78. Mike Shoup: 'Cramoisi Superieur'. This plant and the rose 'Louis Philippe' have often been mistaken for each other. 'Cramoisi Superieur' flowers are cupped, rich crimson color with a silvery reverse different from 'Louis Philippe' in the absence of the white streaking near the base of the flower. (Both plants at certain times of the year can produce mimicking flowers).....

p79 'Louis Philippe'....Round cup-shaped flowers of 'Louis Philippe' are rose crimson with streaks of white adorning healthy-foliaged shrubs.