Book  (1936)  Page(s) 126.  
 
Capitaine, Grand (hybrid bourbon) ? ? ; deep pink to crimson, large, double, floriferous, growth 7/10.

Magazine  (Jun 1907)  Page(s) 239-240.  
 
Dans une longue liste de Rosiers, de la collection V. Verdier, de Paris, Victor Paquet, dans le cahier de septembre 1842 de la Revue horticole, énumère un grand nombre de variétés de Rosiers, classées dans les sections connues à cette époque. Parmi ces sections figurent les Hybrides incer taines, les Hybrides de Bengale (non remontants), les Hybrides de Noisette (non remontants), les Hybrides de l’Ile-Bourbon (non remontants). Puis des :
Hybrides remontants. — Bréon, gr. pl. carmin vif onglet blanc.— Clémentine Duval, moy. pl. bomb. rose un peu lilacé. — Coquette de Montmorency, moy. pl, bien faite rouge violacé. — Grand Capitaine, moy. tr. mult. ou pl. creusé carmin vif. — Perpétuelle de Neuilly, moy. ou gr. rouge carminé (1835). — Roblin, gr. pl. bomb. rouge carminé.

Book  (1899)  Page(s) 74.  
 
Grand Capitaine, hybride de Bourbon, cramoisi

Book  (1885)  Page(s) Vol I, p. 355.  
 
Hyb. Bour. Grand Capitaine. Arbuste vigoureux; fleur grande, pleine, très florifère: pétales intérieurs frisés irrégulièrement; coloris cramoisi passant au grenat.

Book  (1880)  Page(s) Annex, p. 57.  
 
hybrid perpetual, bourbon. Grand Capitaine, deep pink, passing to carmine, large, double, very floriferous, ruffled petals.

Book  (1858)  Page(s) 237.  
 
Bourbon. Grand Capitaine, medium size, full, vivid crimson-red, with ruffled petals.

Magazine  (1851)  Page(s) 367.  
 
....what can surpass the dazzling beauty of a bed of Geant des Batailles, Grand Capitaine, &c.; or the magnificence of clumps of Baronne Prevost, La Reine, and Souvenir de la Malmaison, &c.; or the extreme beauty and delicacy of masses of Mrs. Bosanquet, Eliza Sauvage, &c...The following varieties are well suited for this massing system of culture:-
...Grand Capitaine.- Velvety, fiery scarlet, very brilliant; opens its flowers well both in summer and autumn; not very double; dwarf habit, well adapted for a small bed, where the intense brilliancy of its flowers wiill show to advantage. One of the most distinct of Roses.

Magazine  (1848)  Page(s) 98.  
 
A selfish little Rose is Grand Capitaine, not wanting a bed to itself on account of its vigorous growth, but only because it is really too dwarf, too delicate, too brilliant in its refulgent scarlet, to group well with any other Rose; a small bed must suffice, for the plant is always rare

Book  (1848)  Page(s) 98.  
 
A selfish little Rose is Grand Capitaine, not wanting a bed to itself on account of its viggorous growth, but only because it is really too dwarf, too delicate, too brilliant in its refulgent scarlet, to group well with any other Rose; a small bed must suffice, for the plant is always rare...[by] Thomas Rivers.

Book  (1848)  Page(s) 124.  
 
The Rose de Rosomène.
9. Grand Capitaine, flowers crimson scarlet, rich, yet fiery, of medium size, very double; form, cupped. Habit, branching; growth, dwarf. A beautiful Rose, growing best on its own roots.