Newsletter  (Dec 2015)  Page(s) 2-3.  
 
[From "My Adventure in Ramblers", by Dominique Massad, pp. 2-6]
Thanks to exchanges with several foreign botanical gardens, I was able to acquire seeds [of Rosa filipes] from the Beijing Botanical garden. In the spring of 1982, the seeds were sown. From among those that germinated, I selected four....One developed imposing branches, and as early as 1986 bloomed. ...the original seeds were not those of the true species but the result of an uncontrolled natural hybridization....By 1987, I gave up using the latter two but continued with the first one that had bloomed. It became the male parent in several crosses I performed, using the following roses as the female: ...'Sanguinea' ....The ...crosses succeded and were given the name ...CHIFIL...
The CHIFILS in their initial crosses gave rise to six new plants that did not bloom the first year, but each possesed the traits of Rosa filipes. .CHIFIL 4 is similar to "Céphée" but flowers later in the season and the corymbs have fewer blooms. It has been named "Almédia".