Hybrid Perpetual.  The flowers are a delicate, satiny, glossy pink, edged with blush, of exquisite shape and very fragrant.  Rivers considered it to be an excellent rose but Paul thought it second rate.  Curtis was effusive in his praise: ‘We cannot perhaps convey to our readers so good an impression of this decidely beautiful rose by any description, as by calling it a blush Madame Laffay, with improved figure, greater pefume and better habit.’  [Henry Curtis p.29 vol.1/1850, Rivers (1854, 1857), Paul (1848, 1863)].