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Periodical Articles On The Subject Of Violets
A Bibliography
(Compiled in its initial phase by Peter Robinson and Annebelle Rice and subject to additions and updates)

Appell, Scott D. -  "The Ethnobotanical Uses of the Genus Viola by Native Americans"
          Violet Gazette (The American Violet Society) - Summer 2000.
          (AVAILABLE ONLINE To Members Only)

Arnot, Jean -  "Windward Violet Farm (Dawlish, Devon)"
          Sweet Times, Winter 1996.

Barandou, Pierre. - "Communication sur les fleurs de Violette de Parme"
          Revue Horticole, 1991.
"L'histoire de violettes"
          Revue Horticole, 1993.
"The Toulouse Violet among the Traditional Orders"
          Sweet Times, Summer/Fall 1998.
"The Violet through the Ages"
          Sweet Times, Winter 1995.

Baxter Cantwell, Elaine. - "Flirtation with Violets"
          Sweet Times, Summer 1994.

Bedoukian, Paul. - "Vera Violetta (1892) by Roger and Gallet"
          Sweet Times, Summer 1996.

Beredjiklian, Norma. - "Mozart and the Violet"
          Sweet Times, Fall 1994.
          (AVAILABLE ONLINE)
"On the Road to Violet Wonderland"
          Sweet Times, Spring 1996.
"The Return of the Violet"
          Washington Woman, December 1998.

Blaxland, Kim. - "Native Violets"
          The American Gardener, March/April 2000.

Bunyard, Edward A. - "Among the sweet violets"
          Gardener's Chronicle, April 1904.

Burrows, Jean. - "Vivat Victoria Regina"
          Sweet Times, Summer/Fall 1998.

Brotherton, R.P. -  "Violets of all sorts"
          Gardener's Chronicle, March 1903.

Bugnon, Pierre - "Homologies foliaires chez la violette odorante"
          Academy of Science, Paris 1925.

Camun, Arthur H. - "Some good garden violets"
          National Horticultural Magazine, January 1940.

Casbas, Nathalie. - "The Toulouse Violet"
          Sweet Times, Spring/Summer 1995.
"Present Day Violet Production in France"
          Sweet Times, Spring/Summer 1995

Clarke, Charles J.L. "Violet farming"
          The Windsor Magazine, April 1908.

Coombs, Roy E. -  "Sweet Violets and how to grow them"
          Amateur Gardening, June 1968
"Vanishing Violets"
          Amateur Gardening, June 1968
"Some hardy double violets of the Nineteenth Century"
          Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, September 1974
"John J. Kettle and the Corte Mullen Violet Farm"
          Amateur Gardening, June 1968
"Parma Violets"
          The Plantsman, December 1979
"When violets grew (and grew) in Dawlish"
          Dawlish Gazette, June 1980

Culley, Theresa M. - "In review. Inbreeding depression and floral type differences in Viola canadensis (Violaceae),
a perennial herb with chasmogamous and cleistogamous flowers"

          Canadian Journal of Botany, 2000.

Dillistone, Frederick E. - "The cult of the violet"
          Gardening Illustrated, July 1930.

Duke, James A. - "Violets and Varicosities"
          Sweet Times, Fall 1994.

Fanin, Giulietto. - "The Violet in Italy"
          Sweet Times, Summer/Fall 1998.
          (AVAILABLE ONLINE)

Fogg, John M. - "A guide to violets"
          Frontiers Magazine (USA) April 1940.

Grindon, Leo H. - "The violet"
          Gardener's Chronicle, September 1974.

Groves, Clive. - "My Magical Violets"
          Sweet Times, Winter 1996.
"A Dorset Violet Farm"
          Sweet Times, Spring 1998.

Haynes, Ariel. - "The Violets in Hawaii"
          Sweet Times, Fall 1995.
          (AVAILABLE ONLINE)

Hellyer, A.G.L. - "A posy of violets"
          London Financial Times, 1972.

Hillis, Lawrence D. - "Cleistogamy in some Viola species"
          Gardener's Chronicle, July 20, 1946.

House, James C. - "The new giant violets"
          Gardener's Chronicle, September 1899.
"Violets and their cultivation"
          Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, 1917.

Johnstone, Catherine H. - "Growing violets"
          Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, September 1974.

Lee, George - "Violets, their care and cultivation"
          The Florist and Pomologist, December 1873.

Livingstone, A.E. - "Violets that flower in winter"
          [Publication unknown].

Martin, Tovah - "Violets'"
          American Horticulturist (published by American Horticultural Society).
          February 1996.

Matthews, Yvonne S. - "That Ordinary Old Violet"
          Sweet Times, Winter 1996.

Millet, Armand - "Les Violettes et la variete 'La France'"
          Revue Horticole, 1897.
"Presentation de la violette Princesse de Sumonte"
          Journal de Societe National Horticulture de France - 1899.
"Proces Verbaus, Varieties de Violettes"
          Journal de Societe National Horticulture de France - 1902.
"Les violettes sous verre"
          Revue Horticole, 1900.
"Presentation de 23 varietes de violettes"
          Journal de Societe National Horticulture de France, 1902.
"Note sur les violettes en Arbe"
          Journal de Societe National Horticulture de France, 1906.
"Les violettes dans les jardins"
          Journal de Societe National Horticulture de France, 1906.
"Presentation de violettes en forme parasol et en faisceau"
          Journal de Societe National Horticulture de Francee, 1913.

Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food
(London) -
"Advisory Leaflet No. 352 (Violet Growing)"
          Issued 1950, 1956, 1965.

Morard, P.H.(et al) - "La violette de Toulouse"
          Revue Horticole, 1992.

Nardy, Pierre. - "Apropos de la violette 'La France'"
          Petit Jardin, 1900.

Newcomb, Peggy C. - "Fragrant Violets at Monticello"
          Sweet Times, Fall 1995.
          (AVAILABLE ONLINE)

Oldaker, Isaac - "Neapolitan Violets"
          Journal of the Horticultural Society, March 1820.

Perfect, E.J. - "Russian Violets"
          Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, October 1965.
"Tina Whitaker"
          Journal of the International Violet Association, Summer 1993.

Perry, Frances - "Sweet Violets"
          Home Gardener, October 1964.

Robinson, Peter. - "Roses are French, Violets are English"
          Sweet Times, Winter 1996.
"An Eden in the Garden of England:
The Potted History of Henry Cannell and Sons of Swanley, Kent"

          Sweet Times, Winter 1996.

Tucker, Arthur O. - "The Botanical Names of the Sweet Violets"
          Violet Gazette (The American Violet Society) - Spring 2000.
          (AVAILABLE ONLINE).
"Violets in Perfumery"
          Sweet Times, Summer 1996.

Ward, H.W. - "Cultivation of violets under glass"
          Gardener's Chronicle, September 1881.

Warner, H.H. - "Violets in many lands and ages"
          Gardening Illustrated, July 1930.

Whittlesey, John. - "Double and Semidouble Hardy Violets in Cultivation"
          Sweet Times, Winter 1995.
"Right Violet, Right Place"
          Sweet Times, Winter 1996.
"The English Violas"
          Sweet Times, Summer 1996.
          (AVAILABLE ONLINE).
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