Website/Catalog  (1938)  Page(s) 10.  
 
Peonies
Octavie Demay (Early) Large pink and white. 35¢

Book  (1928)  Page(s) 59.  
 
A List of Fifty of the Best Inexpensive Varieties
Pink Varieties
Octavie Demay (Calot).  8.5.  Pink.  This is a very early flesh pink.  The collar has ribbon-like white petals, with the center a deeper pink than the guard petals.  A rather dwarfish plant but still an excellent cut flower as the foliage comes clear to the ground.  In the delicate pinks this is the best early cut flower.

Website/Catalog  (1928)  Page(s) 37.  
 
Paeonia sinensis...Octavie Demay, soft flesh-coloured, cream-coloured filling. 1 piece M 1.50

Website/Catalog  (1927)  Page(s) 26.  
 
Octavie Demay (Calot 1867) 
American Peony Society Rating of 8.5 (42 votes)
Blush or very light pink fading to white tipped carmine.  Dwarf, very free blooming early variety.  Erect.  Each $1.00

Magazine  (1924)  
 
Octavie Demay—(Calot 1867)—Very large, flat crown, pale hydrangea pink, fragrant, dwarf habit, but leaves run low on stalks and permit of cutting good length stems, this is a fine large pink and free bloomer .60 Each, 5.00 Per 10, 40.00 per 100
 

Book  (1917)  Page(s) 98.  
 
Octavie Demay. Very large full flower. Rose pink. Fades very rapidly unless cut in bud. Valuable because early. Calot, 1867. Crown. Pink. Very large. Early. Fragrant. Dwarf, erect, strong. Free bloomer. Cutting.

Book  (1907)  Page(s) 67.  
 
664. DEMAY. OCTAVE; P....(Calot. 1867 )
(1) 1867. Dessert's MSS.
(2) 1885, Revue Horticole, p. 31.
(3) 1906, Cottage Gardens Cat.
(4) Cornell Plots Nos. 435, 436, 437, 438.

Magazine  (16 Jan 1885)  Page(s) 31.  
 
Choix de Pivoines Herbacées de Premier Ordre. [par MM. Eugene Verdier et Edouard André]
*Octavie Demay (Calot). Fleur grande, blanc carné tendre teinté de rose vif.

Translation: the large bloom is a soft blush-white with tints of vivid rose. The varieties marked * should not be missing from any well-appointed garden.