This is a fine border hardy perennial, producing long racemes of rosy-purple flowers in June or July.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gardening for the Million] Reference

The hybrids are a very striking race, invaluable for greenhouse and conservatory decoration, producing a continuous succession of large trumpet-shaped flowers, embracing colours ranging from pure white, through lavender, purple, violet, rose, and red, to rich rosy-purple.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition] Reference

Many of the species of Hellebore are known to produce flowers varying more or less in colour; and we also know that an individual blossom, during the long period in which the sepals keep good, often changes its tints and colours, but we are scarcely prepared to hear that a species has greenish-white flowers, whilst we have always seen a rosy or rosy-purple one produced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference

The evening was perfectly calm and cloudless, save in the west, where an agglomeration of delicate rosy-purple streaks and patches of vapour lay softly upon a clear background of palest blue-green sky, forming the picture of a fairy archipelago of thickly clustering islands, intersected by a bewildering maze of channels winding hither and thither, with the thin sickle of the young moon, gleaming softly silver-white, hanging just above the whole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess] Reference

A rosy-purple double variety, and a double white.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover] Reference

It comes in white, rosy-purple, red, and sulphur-yellow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover] Reference