Website/Catalog  (1984)  Page(s) 18.  Includes photo(s).
 
Hybrid Perpetual Roses
Reine des Violettes, Queen of Violets (1860)
The bloom shows colors of lilac, purple and violet with sometimes a touch of red and the name gives it away before the flat, quartered bloom is open. Very fragrant, the foliage is a dark, rich green with a smoky haze overlay. The growth is vigorous and, for me, makes a standing shrub of great worth in the garden.

Book  (1984)  Page(s) 176.  
 
'Reine des Violettes' Syn. 'Queen of the Violets'. A seedling of Pius IX. Bred by Millet-Malet in 1860. 1.50 m. A hybrid perpetual, whose habit allows its classification among Bourbon roses. Often a shrub as wide as large, this rose is covered with lead-grey-green foliage, soft to touch and which are located close to the blooms in the manner of Portland roses. The double blooms have the Gallica form with their petals rolled towards the outside and quartered, also with a button eye. They appear in summer (twice) and in autumn, always very fragrant. Half-open they appear dark purple and well opened, become at the same time paler and more brilliant. They fade to parma violet. The contrast between the velvety foliage and their silky and lighter reverse side is constant...This plant demands rich soil.

Book  (1983)  Page(s) 110.  Includes photo(s).
 
Reine des Violettes (1860) Usually classified as a member of this family, it is not really a Hybrid Perpetual. Repeat flowering and grows to 2 metres or more. When the flowers are fully open, they are flat and quartered and have a button eye. The colour ranges through carmine-red, violet-grey and lilac-purple.

Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 31.  
 
Reine des Violettes (Hybrid Perpetual) A large shrub bearing abundant leaves and soft velvety violet flowers in early summer, followed by some later. Fragrant. Superb in most soils. 1860 H. Shade tolerant. (R) 6 x 6’.

Book  (1981)  Page(s) 396.  
 
Reine des Violettes. HP. (Millet-Malet, 1860). Seedling of 'Pius IX'. Rich lilac-purple, becoming violet with age, velvety, with slightly lighter reverse, medium, flat, quartered, with small eye, recurrent, strong perfume, growth vigorous, foliage more grey-green.

Book  (1980)  Page(s) 44.  
 
Leonard Hollis. Symposium on the Twelve Best Bourbon and Hybrid Perpetual Roses.
'Reine des Violettes'....

Magazine  (1971)  Page(s) 65.  
 
A Victorian favourite that will grace the back of a flower border and make a foil for pale flowers in the foreground is Reine des Violettes. It adds a new colour for it is deep purple on opening and later develops a pale violet hue. This unusual hybrid perpetual resembles the old French or gallica roses in form and colour, and like them has a very strong perfume. It is recurrent flowering and will give some fine autumn blooms. It is perhaps an acquired taste, but soon becomes a prime favourite.

Book  (1971)  Page(s) 193.  
 
Two roses often classed as Hybrid Perpetuals can very well be grouped with the Bourbons, as they approach them in all characters. They are 'Reine des Violettes' (1860)...fine, large shrubs up to 5 or 6 feet with good foliage...having a greyish sheen, assorting well with the flowers...beautiful arrangement of the incurved petals forming a wide, flat, quartered flower with button eye. From a pale blush-mauve centre the petals flush to a rich parma violet, with a touch of cerise and purple here and there.

Book  (1971)  Page(s) facing p. 144.  Includes photo(s).
 
A Hybrid Perpetual, 'Reine des Violettes' (1860), which gives the old shape and colour-parma violet-with the perpetual flowering habit. Good flowers when fully open may be as much as 4 1/2 inches in width.

Book  (1967)  Page(s) 120.  
 
The blooms of one of our lovely Hybrid Perpetuals, Reine des Violettes could easily be mistaken for Gallica flowers, if separated from their smooth leaves and stems. The deliciously scented, flat and quartered blooms open rosy-cerise with abutton eye; but this colour changes soon to violet, grey and rosy-purple.