Website/Catalog  (1960)  Page(s) 5.  
 
Light Pink Peonies
Reine Hortense (Calot 1857) This variety remains one of the best commercials we grow. It is a lovely, tall mid-season rose-pink. Crisp, fluffy petals of translucent texture, notched and silvered at the tips. There is an occasional fleck of crimson in the center of the flower. $1.00

Website/Catalog  (1931)  Page(s) 21.  
 
Double Chinese peonies...Paeonia sinensis Reine Hortense, largest silvery-pink, 80 cm, June, 1,50 Marks [10] 13,50 [100] 120,--

Book  (1928)  Page(s) 59.  
 
A List of Fifty of the Best Inexpensive Varieties
Pink Varieties
Reine Hortense (Calot).  8.7.  Pink.  This is a show flower and is usually found in the winning classes.  This variety is sometimes sold under the name of President Taft.  It is a tall-growing variety, producing lots of large perfectly-formed flowers on long stiff stems.  The color is a uniform hydrangea pink, minutely splashed on a white background.  It is also prominently flecked with crimson.  It is a truly wonderful flower.  We are seldom able to supply the demand.

Website/Catalog  (1927)  Page(s) 27.  
 
Reine Hortense (Calot 1858) 
American Peony Society Rating of 8.7 (40 votes)
Beautiful uniform light pink, center flecked crimson.  Fragrant, semi-rose type.  One of the best all around pink peonies.  Midseason.  This and Sarah Bernhardt are pink peonies of such superlative quality and value that I strongly recommend them for all purposes.  They are good for landscape planting, and cutflower production and are very splendid for the home garden.  Reine-Hortense blooms earlier than Sarah Bernhardt.  Each $2.00

Book  (1917)  Page(s) 99.  
 
Reine Hortense. Full, well-formed flower. Even shade of pale rose pink. Strikingly beautiful. Note colour plate. Calot, 1857. Semi-rose. Pink. Very large. Midseason. Fragrant. Very tall, strong and erect. Free and reliable bloomer. Garden and cutting.

Magazine  (Nov 1911)  Page(s) 124.  
 
REINE HORTENSE.
Species— P. albiflora.
Originated by Calot, 1857.
Donated by Farr.
Description of bloom — Type of bloom semi-rose. Form of bloom flat, compact. Slightly differentiated. Not entirely transformed. Color (total effect) hydrangea pink 2 (132); guards splashed with crimson; collar same color as guards ; center prominently flecked with crimson. Color splashed on rose white background. Fades in sunlight. Fragrance pleasant X. Blooming time early to mid-season. Very large size.
Description of plant — Habit of plant erect, tall, medium compact. Growth strong and healthy. Stem long, strong, reddish green. Blooming habit medium. Buds borne in clusters. Foliage medium furnished, medium to dark green, medium size ; veins reddish green.
Commercial value—For cut bloom good; landscape value medium. Variety as a whole good.
 

Book  (1907)  Page(s) 24-25.  
 
We cannot give a list of more than fourteen varieties of peonies which we would recommend for cut flower purposes out of the list we are now growing. We have many varieties, but they have not been sufficiently tested as yet. The list is as follows: Amabilis Grandiflora, white, very large, double, fringed petals, fine, very sweet; Caroline Mather, purple crimson, large, double and very dark; Delicatissima, rose, large, full, fine, sweet; Duchesse de Nemours, rose-pink, very large, double, sweet, one of the best; Elegans, outside petals dark pink, large salmon center, loose, fine, sweet; Festiva Maxima, creamy white with small center of carmine, round, early, in clusters, sweet; Francoise Ortegat, dark purple crimson, very large, fine, deep, double, and sweet; Fulgida, very dark crimson, good; Humei, rose, full, large, late, one of the best; La France, pink outside petals, with yellowish center, very fine; Perfection, outside petals rose lilac, inside salmon, sweet; Reine Hortense, pink, large, full globular, fine, fragrant; Triumph du Nord, violet rose, lilac shade; Victoria, rose, center yellowish.
W. & T. Smith Company, Geneva, N. Y.
 

Website/Catalog  (1906)  Page(s) 39.  
 
Reine Hortense. Soft lilac cup, filling cream yellow with purple-edged soft lilac bonnet.

Magazine  (1890)  Page(s) 309.  
 
As beautiful pink-coloured ones can be remarked: Reine Hortense, Tricolor rosea, Arsène Meuret, Victoria tricolor, Monsieur Belliard....

Book  (1868)  Page(s) 197.  
 
Harbaceous Peonies...Reine Hortense, rose, centre white