Book  (Dec 1998)  Page(s) 344.  
 
'La Biche'. Old. Noisette. White, Repeat-flowering. Although it is rarely seen today, this Noisette dramatically demonstrates how soil and climate can affect the color of a rose. Purple canes support white, well- formed blooms with a center of flesh pink. The cupped, large, globular flowers rise above long stems, and there is a pronounced Tea scent. The blooms are much lighter in full sun and poor soil. It is a vigorous rambler that takes at least 3 years to establish itself and continues to bloom from the end of spring until autumn. The name means ‘The Doe’ in English. It has a tendency to develop black spot. Zones 4-10. Trouillet, France, 1832. parentage unknown.

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 294.  
 
La Biche Noisette, white, center flesh, 1832, Trouillet. Description.

Book  (Jun 1992)  Page(s) 214.  
 
La Biche (translation, 'The Doe') Toullier, 1832. Noisette. [Author cites information from many sources.]

Book  (1986)  Page(s) 86.  
 
'La Biche'. A very pretty member of the group (Noisettes) with double, white flowers that have pinkish edges or shading.

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 132.  
 
[From the 1978 facsimile reproduction of the first edition published in New York in 1936]

The colored illustration of the Noisette rose, La Biche, 1832, in "Les Roses," by Jamain and Forney, 1873, and the many descriptions of it in American and English books, have become a sort of lure to the eye searching for fine types of old roses. We have always hoped to find La Biche, and, finding it, to recognize it. Last year we grew three different specimens of ever-blooming roses taken from an old garden where the originals had been carefully tended for many years. One is a red rose about which we can say nothing at present. Two of these have shown themselves, this summer, to have Noisette characteristics. One is of the smaller-flowered sort-pale soft pink, almost white, not especially fragrant, double, cupped, blooming in sizeable clusters; name, so far, unsuspected. The other, striking out on its new life in the manner of the Tea-Noisettes, has shown clusters of bloom of very pale pink going off to white, with a hint of buff at the base of the petals, very large, roundly cupped, like the cap of an acorn, very double but not fully covering the center, and remarkably fragrant with a very sweet scent. Foliage is rich green and is of fine shape. The side-shoots break out several buds down the cane in the manner of the Tea-Noisettes already described. As there were not many pale pink, large Noisettes of great sweetness, we think this delicately lovely rose may be La Biche, which is described by Rivers as a "Pillar Noisette with very large, pale flowers inclining to fawn colour in the center; a very fragrant, beautiful and distinct rose"; by Paul as "flowers white, their center flesh"; by Buist as "pale flesh color"; by Parsons as "pale rose inclining to fawn at the center"; by John Cranston as "white, center flesh, very fragrant"; and by Jamain and Forney, "blanc carne, a centre Iegerement jaunatre." La Biche or not, this rose deserves the name, as it is a dear. Purposely, I have quoted the several descriptions of La Biche, to show how experienced rose-men, wise in their business, vary in their descriptions of color. They all mean the same thing, granting the fact that a rose will show certain variations in color, due to climate and soil.

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 76.  
 
Biche, La (noisette) Trouillet 1832; flesh-white, center yellowish, edges white, 7cm., 3/4-full, cup-form, hollow, fragrance 3/10, cluster-flowered, repeats well, growth 7/10, climbing

Book  (1914)  Page(s) 117.  
 
Some Old-Fashioned Climbing Roses.
La Biche is a very dainty white Noisette Rose...

Book  (1906)  Page(s) 83.  
 
5.286. La biche, Noisette, Trouillet 1832 carné jaunâtre

Book  (1903)  Page(s) 734.  
 
Noisettes - Owing to some of the most important kinds in this group being often classed with the Teas, even in catalogues which class them as Noisettes, there is much confusion.   We therefore omit roses such as Bouquet d’Or, which we group among the Teas.   They bloom long and well in clusters, grow freely, and are fragrant and useful for climbing or pillar Roses.  The following are some: ... and La Biche.

Book  (1903)  Page(s) 335.  
 
La Biche [Noisette]; flowers white, their centres flesh colour, very large and very double; form cupped; growth vigorous. A fine Pillar Rose.