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Success with Flowers, a Floral Magazine, Volumes 9(6): 125 (March 1899)
Marie Pavie Rose.
* I should like to know, either, whether my plant, "Marie Pavie" is a remarkable one, or else why there is not more said about it in Success.
Four or five years ago, in addition to premium selected, I found a tiny shoot marked with the above name and "P" in my package--looking it up and finding it only a Polyantha I did not care much about it, but, lo! It eclipsed all my other Roses—not in size—for a full bloom Rose is not much larger than a silver dollar, but the buds are so remarkably sweet and dainty, and this Summer we had by actual count 320 Roses and buds on one branch, and without exaggeration I think there must have been a thousand Roses on the bush, which is now over five feet high, and like a mass of shrubbery for size.
I showed it, when in full bloom, to a professional florist, and he said he never saw a Rose of its class like it. Then, with the exception of two or three weeks immediately after the "June" flowering, there is never a time I cannot cut a bouquet from it, from the last of May until frost kills the buds—and this year over fifty buds were on it when the frost caught it. It is a wonderful bloomer.—Mrs. W. H. W., Pennsylvania.
[* The Marie Pavie is a remarkably fine variety, and our correspondent has correctly stated its habits. It is experiences such as this that are helpful, and if our readers would make notes during the growing season they could tell many things that would be helpful to others,—Ed.]
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