Book  (26 Dec 2009)  
 
'Madames de Villeparisis'. M, pb, Morley, Dr B.[sport of Henri Martin]

Magazine  (Feb 1989)  Page(s) 105. Vol 8, No. 3.  Includes photo(s).
 
New Cultivars Selected from Seedlings of Old-fashioned Roses. by June and Brian Morley.
Abstract. Six cultivars of seedling rose selections are described: R. cvs. "Princesse de Parme", "Duchesse de La Tremoille", "Duchesse de Guermantes", "Madame de Villeparisis", "Marie Nordlinger" and "Beauty of Glenhurst".
Introduction. In autumn 1983 seed was collected from open pollinated garden plants of R. cvs. "William Lobb", "Henri Martin" and "De la Grifferae". After potting in compost these were left outside during the winter with germination in spring 1983 (Morley, 1988). Seedlings were pricked out into rows and given adequate watering during the summer of 1984; considerable mortality was experienced. The first flowers of seedlings were seen in spring 1984 and repeat assessments of promising selections were made in 1985, 1986 and 1987 Colour photographs of flowers of the selections were taken during these years for comparative purposes. In 1987 it had become apparent that particular selections were phenotypically stable and in the opinion of the authors worthy of description and release to interested growers.

R. cv. ‘Madame de Villeparisis’. This selection has a height, habit and shoots like "Henri Martin", but with more bluish-green foliage, it lacks moss and the flower pedicels have only glands and prickles, the flower a more bluish cherry red and more double with a button or muddled eye; they fade through pale pink to pale violet and are about 6 cm in diameter.
Origin of name: Madame de Villeparisis — an engaging character of Marcel Proust in "A la Recherche...' based on Mme Lemaire who was, amongst other achievements, a flower painter of whom her lover, the younger Dumas, said "No one except God has created more roses"

p106. Photo ‘Madame de Villeparisis’

Magazine  (1986)  
 
1986. Heritage Roses in Australia - 2nd Int Conf., Adelaide, 1986. Conference Proceedings.
p48 June Morley. Making New Old Roses. The seeds were gathered in late autumn 1983.... the slides shown were taken in spring 1985.....
Slide 9 shows seedling no. 149D = 'Mme. de Villeparisis'. 149D has rather paler blooms than 'Henri Martin' and like 149B has no moss. Both 149C and 149D are robust spreading bushes, similar in form to 'Henri Martin'