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)].