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'Madame Vidot' rose References
Website/Catalog  (27 Jul 2011)  
 
Rosa Madame Vidot’
Hybrid Perpetual.  ‘Madame Vidot’ ‘made her debut [at the great rose show at St. Johns Hall, London, July 1860] in richest white, silvery satin, and in a manner not seen to be forgotten.’  Paul Ricault, writing in The Gardeners’ Chronicle of that year.  In 1858 Ricault had listed this rose amongst his best six introductions of the season, describing it as ‘a kind of pink satin silvery blush colour, and otherwise in point of shape and size as perfect as the most fastidious could desire’.  Elsewhere it was described as having ‘transparent flesh-coloured flowers, shaded with rose, large and full.  Paul described it as ‘a model in form, beautiful in colour’.  [Paul (1863, 1888), Rivers (1857, (1863)].
 
Horticultural & Botanical History
In the first great National Rose show held in July 1858, ‘Madame Vidot’ was listed amongst the roses appearing in multiple (12) winning collections.  It was recommended as a late-flowering rose in The Gardeners’ Chronicle of 1858.
 
History at Camden Park
Included in a handwritten list of roses dated 1861, probably intended for a new edition of the catalogue that was never printed.  [MP A2943].
Book  (Dec 2000)  Page(s) 99.  
 
Mme. Vidot
Hybrid Perpetual
Couturier fils [with E. Verdier] 1854
Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 344.  
 
Mme. Vidot Hybrid Perpetual, flesh-white, 1854, Couturier. Description.
Book  (1936)  Page(s) 734.  
 
Vidot, Mme. (HP) E. Verdier 1854; flesh-coloured to white, shaded vivid pink, medium to large, double, fine form, floriferous, repeats, growth 7/10, robust. Sangerhausen

Vidot, Mme. (?) Couturier 1855; = Mlle Eug. Vidot?
Magazine  (Jan 1907)  Page(s) 12.  Includes photo(s).
 
C‘est une vieille Rose dont nous donnons le dessin aujourd’hui dans le Journal des Roses, mais pour laquelle nous avons toujours conservé notre faveur.
Madame Vidot a été mise au commerce en 1854, par Eugène Verdier fils aîné; depuis plusieurs années on ne la rencontre que très rarement dans les collections et, pourtant, elle est d'un coloris assez rare chez les Roses et donne des fleurs énormes se conservant très longtemps dans les vases.
C‘est un arbuste trapu, à rameaux vert clair, portant des aiguillons inégaux, presque droits ou très légèrement arqués en arrière. Les feuilles, composées de trois à cinq folioles sont épaisses, lisses, d‘un beau vert clair à la face supérieure plus pâle en dessous, dentelées, ovales, elliptiques et échancrées à la base; le petiole est glanduleux et creusé en gouttière en dessus et est muni de petits aiguillons arqués en dessous; les stipules étroites et courtes, sont divergentes, ciliées sur les bords, presque entièrement soudées avec le petiole commun, à la base duquel elles forment deux ailes étroites d’un millimètre de largeur.
Les fleurs sont grandes, parfois très grandes, d’une forme parfaite, en coupe, d‘un beau coloris blanc rosé carné tendre souvent nuancé de rose vif. Le pédoncule est gros et court, glanduleux, les folioles longitudinales allongées également glanduleuses et duveteuses sur les bords. Les pétales, très nombreux, sont obovales redressés, régulièrement imbriqués dans les rangées extérieures alors que ceux du centre sont plissée.
La plante est très vigoureuse et rustique comme la plupart des rosiers à gros bois appartenant à cette catégorie.

Translation:
It's an old Rose whose illustration we give today in the Journal of Roses, but one which we have always kept in favor.
Madame Vidot was introduced to commerce in 1854 by Eugene Verdier, elder son [of Victor Verdier]; after many years it is seldom found in collections, yet it is a rare color amongst Roses and gives huge flowers that keep a long time in vases.
It is a stocky shrub, with light green branches with uneven spines, almost straight or very slightly arched at the base. The leaves, consisting of three to five leaflets, are thick, smooth, a beautiful bright green on the upper surface, paler below, toothed, oval, elliptical and notched at the base; the petiole is glandular and guttered on top and is armed with small hooked prickles below; the stipules, narrow and short, are divergent, ciliate on the edges, almost entirely fused with the common petiole, at the base of which they form two narrow wings a millimeter wide.
The flowers are large, sometimes very large, perfectly cup-shaped in form, of a beautiful color: white tenderly blushed pink often tinged a vivid rose color. The peduncle is thick, short and glandular, the elongated longitudinal leaflets are also glandular and downy around the edges. The petals, very numerous, are obovate regularly imbricated in the outer rows, whereas those in the center are folded.
The plant is very vigorous and hardy like most of the roses with thick wood belonging to this category.
Magazine  (Jun 1902)  Page(s) 84.  
 
NÉCROLOGIE - EUGÈNE VERDIER
Rosiers Mis au Commerce par Eugène Verdier.
Madame Vidot: Hybride Remontant, 1854.
Book  (1899)  Page(s) 117.  
 
Madame Vidot, HR, E. Verdier, 1854, carné
Book  (1885)  Page(s) 35.  
 
TRIBE ROSEÆ.
ROSA, Linn.; Rose.
Garden Varieties—
Madame Vidot; hybrid perpetual. Plant in Acclimatisation Society's Grounds, Bowen Park and in Brisbane Botanic Garden.
Book  (1882)  Page(s) 24.  
 
Madame Vidot... Variété recommandée pour l'ornement des jardins. Hybride Perpétuel. 1854 Blanc carné. Fleur moyenne. Plante moyenne.
Book  (1880)  Page(s) Annex, p. 86.  
 
hybrid perpetual, MADAME VIDOT, Mlle. Eugène Vidot (Verdier, 1854), white, shaded pink, large, double, fine form.
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