Book  (Feb 1993)  Page(s) 125.  Includes photo(s).
 
Reine des Violettes
Hybrid Perpetual
Botanical grouping: Chinensis
Seedling of 'Pius IX'
(synonym: 'Queen of the Violets')
France 1860
... virtually thornless. deep red-violet [the flowers] pass through every shade of purple, lavender and violet with greyish touches as they mature... [flowers] resemble a bourbon or a gallica... Needs plenty of nourishment and good soil, and in hot areas constant watering, if it is to perform successfully. Judicious, fairly hard pruning will also reap rewards...

Book  (1993)  Page(s) 101, 106.  Includes photo(s).
 
Reine des Violettes
Page 101: [PHOTO]
Page 106: ('Queen of the Violets')
Hybrid Perpetual
Millet-Malet (France) 1860
A seedling from 'Pius IX'
... flowers closer to the Gallica Rose than to a typical Hybrid Perpetual... rosette formation... quartered with a button-eye... deep velvet purple, turning with time to soft parma-violet... hardly any thorns... reliably repeat flowering... requires good cultivation if it is to give its best...

Book  (1993)  Page(s) 93.  Includes photo(s).
 
('Reine des Violettes', 'Queen of Violets') Hybrid Perpetual. Description. Millet-Malet (France) 1860. A seedling of 'Pius IX'.

Book  (Jun 1992)  Page(s) 146.  
 
Reine des Violettes Hybrid Perpetual. Mille-Malet 1860... light violet... [Author cites information from different sources.]

Book  (1992)  Page(s) 331.  
 
Description... Flowers: violet-red, 3-1/2 to 4-inch, 75 petals...

Book  (1991)  Page(s) 95.  Includes photo(s).
 
Description... Although always classed as a Hybrid Perpetual this rose has more in common with the Bourbons... Flowers: with age they expand to a flat array of soft parma-violet. It must be well nurtured in good soil; it does not take kindly to poor soils. Assisduous dead-heading will encourage later blooms -- those which appear late in the season surpass the earlier crops in deep colours...

Book  (1991)  Page(s) 149.  Includes photo(s).

Article (magazine)  (1988)  Page(s) 31.  
 
[Colour description according to the CIELAB colour space (petal inside): L* = Lightness, a* = red-green axis, b* = yellow-blue axis]
'Reine des Violettes' (Millet-Malet, 1860; violet-red), L* 38-58, a* 31-39, b* -16 to -14

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 75.  Includes photo(s).
 
Reine des Violettes A Hybrid Perpetual raised by Millet-Malet in 1860, a seedling of 'Pope Pius IX'. On good soil it makes a tall, almost thornless shrub up to 2 m high. The flowers open carmine or cerise and later develop violet shading. They are very sweetly scented and remiscent of a Gallica in shape and colour.

Book  (Dec 1985)  Page(s) 35, 374.  Includes photo(s).
 
Page 35: [PHOTO]
Page 374: ('Queen of the Violets') Millet-Malet (France) 1860. Parentage: 'Pius IX' seedling. If Beales had to choose just one Hybrid Perpetual, it would be this one. Description... Flowers: violet, flat, quartered...