'Félicité'. Alba
"Possibly dates to 1834. Though the rose has become known most often as 'Félicité Parmentier', the "Parmentier" appears to be a later addition prompted by the existence of other roses with the name "Félicité"; in other words, to differentiate, it was call "'Félicité' (Parmentier)....The original name must still take precedence."
--Brent C. Dickerson in "The Old Rose-Adventurer"
"The more
brilliant and, one might add, the more crudely coloured the Rose, the less it
should intrude in the foreground and the more it can endure the back and darker
portions of the border; the reverse holds for the softer, paler and more
delicately tinted Roses. They should have the honored place."
---John Parkin in The Rose Annual for 1922 of the National Rose Society
of Great Britain.
