It's the spelling that keeps you from finding it. Rogue Valley Roses has it listed as "Violette" which is how it apparently was registered. Same rose, Turbat, 1921. They have bands in stock. (See the link below:)

Here is a link that might be useful: Violette at Rogue Valley Roses

I purchased Violette last summer from Rogue. It was band size. It is now about 2' x 3'. No disease and the flowers though few were lovely. I dont recall an aroma. It has been placed in the garden between 2 apple trees and should grow up a horse fence. I hope.
Jeannie

I've had 'Violette' for several years. The foliage is attractive and I can echo Jeannie: "the flowers though few were lovely." My climate is hot and dry rather than hot and humid. My specimen was very hesitant to grow at all at first, but now is starting to show some interest in making something of itself. I'll be patient with it, as the color fits in well with its surroundings. (I obtained the similar 'Donau!' at about the same time, and it has grown and bloomed well.)

Dunno if you can get your hands on Purple Skyliner but this is fast becoming my favourite purple, both for the health of the plant and the speed of its rebloom....and, of course, the lovely clusters of generous little purple pom-poms. Very, very similar to Violette but a tad more floriferous and very free of BS and mildew (an important point for a lazy non-sprayer such as myself to consider).

Hi Wintercat: I'm glad you are back ... should I post the romantic novel using roses name in caps. that you, Dove_song, I, and others wrote? Should I post that in the English Roses Forum, so international folks can enjoy our stylish writings? Violetta is one of the pretty sisters in the novel.
Here's the part you wrote, which is the best part of the novel. It gives me a good laugh every time I read it. "â¢Posted by WinterCat z10 (My Page) on
Mon, Jul 30, 12 at 6:16

AUNT SALLY was wearing her GRANDMOTHER'S HAT - not that it made her LOOK BETTER... FEEL GOOD, and if that weren't enough, she was suddenly gripped by a BURNING DESIRE for SUGAR COOKIEs and COFFEE TEA, so she ended up having a BURNING GLOW in her stomach, but she just couldn't stop popping 'em into her mouth. She tried sniffing PEPPERMINT because she remembered STRAWBERRY HILL said PEPPERMINT takes away one's appetite, but it didn't work.
So she started rooting frantically in her handbag for a couple of ASPIRIN. GOOD GOLLY! She howled. No ASPIRIN! Oh! HELP THE AGED! Call DR HUEY!

Not a MOMENT IN TIME had passed and DR HUEY's QUICKSTEP was heard. HELLO GORGEOUS! cried DR HUEY. So it's YOU 'N' ME again! YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE! FEAR NAUGHT my DARLING! You've never been a SHOW STOPPER but I always miss a HEARTBEAT when I behold your FUNNY FACE!

Purple Skyliner is significantly better for hot climates than any of the multiflora, violet climbers. It roots like they do and repeats its flowers all summer here. I had Perennial Blue and it flowered primarily in spring. Probably needs less heat and more winter chill. I kept Purple Skyliner. Beware of the violet multifloras. You don't get "those colors" except in cooler weather. When it's hot, they all turn redder. It's just the nature of the genes. Kim

It sounds like Purple Skyliner is a better rose for your climate. I have grown Violette for years and love it. The Antique Rose Emporium in TX also sells Violette. That's where I purchased most of mine...including my current Violette growing in PDX. I've known TX gardeners to grow this rose well, but zone 10 is probably too much of a stretch.

Carol

I wish we had Purple Skyliner here in Israel (looked her up on HMF), but we don't. The rose selection here is a tiny fraction of what's available in the US.

Violette suddenly appeared on the site of the biggest rose nursery here and I was bowled over. She might possibly do well in Safed but not in the Turkish bath of the coastal plain (one more reason for moving to Safed).

Many thanks to you all for replying! You saved me from making a bad mistake.

Violette is the best of the purple multifloras in my garden, and I tried 8 or 9 of them. All of the others have now been discarded.

It is mildly chlorotic and does get a touch of PM, but nothing too disfiguring. All the others were all completely ridden with terrible cases of both, to the point where the leaves were white with pale, pale veins, gray powder, and black-burnt edges to the leaves. As you can imagine very little photosynthesis took place in those poor leaves. It was not a pretty sight.

I have kept Violette though and I do like it quite a bit. Longish season for a once-bloomer, maybe 6 or 8 weeks, variable. No scent, but then I did not find any of its clan to be fragrant, not even Vielchenblau.

Rosefolly