Hybrid Perpetual.  In selecting General Simpson as one of his best six introductions of 1858 in an article in The Gardeners’ Chronicle, Paul Ricault described it as a sweet pinkish coloured variety, rather small but very neat, blooms abundantly in autumn and is quite faithful in the way of never changing colour.  This journal described its flowers in 1856 as rosy-carmine flowers, with the form and habit of ‘Louise Odier’.  [Rivers (1857), Paul (1863), Gard. Chron. (1856, 1858)].