'Duchesse d’Orléans' Rose
R. gallica ‘Duchesse d’Orléans’
PICTURE SOURCE Choix des Plus Belles Fleurs (1827-33)
ORIGINAL BOTANICAL NAME Rosa Gallica Aurelianensis
ORIGINAL FRENCH NAME La Duchesse d’Orléans
CURRENT BOTANTICAL NAME R. gallica ‘Duchesse d’Orléans’
COMMON NAME Duchesse d’Orléans
CLASS Gallica
ORIGIN Unknown; dedicated by P.J Redouté to the Duchess of Orléans, 30th September, 1821
FLOWERING Once-flowering; summer
SCENT Slightly scented
GROWTH Medium shrub, 3-4 feet (0.9-1.2 metres) high
AVAILABILITY Still in cultivation
At left; picture of the Gallica Rose, R. gallica ‘Duchesse d’Orléans’, painted by Pierre-Joseph Redouté, portrait 07 out of 17, Choix des Plus Belles Fleurs (1827-33)
This illustration appears in Choix. The engraving for the print seems to have been based on the same original watercolour painting as the Gallica Rose variety, R. gallica ‘Duchesse d’Orléans’, published earlier by Redouté in Les Roses. This engraving has a shorter stem and two rosebuds less than the one in Les Roses. Other than that it appears identical.
