Tuscany Superb

(Gallica) Large, semi-double, scented blooms are of deepest crimson purple. The petals have a velvet like texture and surround a coronet of prominent golden yellow stamens.

Scharlachglut

(Gallica) 'Scarlet Fire'. An outstanding handsome, hardy shrub bearing an abundance of large, rich, scarlet-crimson single flowers with pronounced golden stamens. Large, bright red, urn-shaped hips carried throughout most of the winter.

Alain Blanchard

(Gallica) Large 2 1/2 - 3 inch flowers of semi-single form. Crimson in colour often with smudged purple spots. Pronounced amber stamens.