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'Duchesse d'Orléans' rose References
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Website/Catalog  (27 Jul 2011)  
 
Rosa Duchesse d’Orleans’
Hybrid Perpetual, with rosy blush flowers, tinged with lilac, fine bold flower, good form, very large, was described in the Floricultural Cabinet.  [Rivers (1857, 1863), FC p.61/1855, FC p.228/1857].
  
Horticultural & Botanical History
Louis van Houtte included this rose in an Énumération des plus belles variétiés et….des autres! in the Flore des Serres.  [FS pgs.91-102 vol.15/1864].
  
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’.
Book  (2001)  Page(s) 459.  
 
Duchesse d'Orléans (Quétier, 1851)
Book  (Dec 2000)  Page(s) 437.  
 
Duchesse d'Orlèans
Hybrid Perpetual
Pierre-Victor Quétier 1851
Book  (1936)  Page(s) 529.  
 
d'Orléans, Duch. (HP) Quétier 1852; hydrangea-pink, large, double, peony-form, growth 6/10, upright. Sangerhausen
Book  (1909)  Page(s) 225.  
 
Duchesse d'Orléans, fl. rose hortensia nuancé
Book  (1902)  Page(s) 111.  
 
Hybrides Remontants. Groupe A. — La Reine
Les rosiers de ce groupe sont vigoureux, rustiques, à rameaux toujours droits, un peu rigides, munis d'aiguilIons petits et assez rapprochés: feuillage serré, vert; fleur en coupe, coloris variant du rosé tendre au rosé vif. Ils drageonnent au loin, comme les Provins dont ils se rapprochent beaucoup par leur végétation.
3419. Duchesse d'Orléans... (Quettier 1851)... rose hortensia.
Book  (1899)  Page(s) 55.  
 
Dchesse de'Orléans, HR, Quettier, 1851, rose hortensia
Article (magazine)  (1 Feb 1898)  Page(s) 22.  
 
[From a talk by Léon Chénault at the Conference of Rosarians at Orléans, published in "Journal des Roses"]
Duchesse d'Orléans (Quétier, 1852), d'un beau rose argenté revient en 1887 sous le nom de J.-B. Casati.

Translation:
Duchesse d'Orléans (Quétier, 1852), a beautiful silvery pink, came again in 1887 under the name of J.-B. Casati.
Book  (1898)  
 
DUCHESSE D'ORLEANS ; flowers lavender-blush, very large and full ; growth, robust. One of the best.
Book  (1882)  Page(s) 222.  
 
Duchesse d'Orléans, free (blooming), H.R., Quetier, 1852. Blush, large, full ; often opens badly, and is subject to mildew.
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