■(SDB) 'Speckled Sprite'
1964, Price
'Speckled Sprite' (
Molly Price, R. 1963). Seedling# L62-11. SDB, 11" (28 cm), Early bloom. Color Class-W2V, White stitched red- violet plicata, white beard tipped yellow. (
'Garden Flame' x Welch seedling# H-503) X
'Red Rockette'. Old Brook, Cassebeer 1964. Honorable Mention 1967.
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From Old Brook Gardens catalog, 1964: SPECKLED SPRITE (Price '64) E 11 11 • A fine addition to the dwarf plicata class. Base color is white, and it is evenly stitched in bright red-violet on edges of both standardsand falls. Plicata pattern blends to brown at the haft of horizontal flaring falls. (Garden Flame x H-503) X Red Rockette. Net $5.00. Cointroduced with Cassebeer Iris Nursery, West Nyack, N. Y. |
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