(TB) 'Phoebe'

1941, Douglas

'Phoebe' (Geddes Douglas, R. 1940) TB. Late midseason bloom. Color Class Y3D. Slight fragrance. 'Jeb Stuart' X white seedling. Douglas, Fairmount 1941. Honorable Mention 1941.

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PHOEBE (G. Douglas 1941) M. L. Most attractive and entirely different in color this charming flower can best be described as a symphony in green and gold. The closely domed standards are a blending of light yellow and pale javel green with a tiny rim of white on the edge. The standards are so broad at the haft that they almost meet over the broad thick beard. The wide falls are semi-flaring with an undercolor of pale lemon yellow heavily overflushed with green gold or javel green, deepening decidedly from the beard way down into the throat. The broad high beard is exactly the same tone as the deepest part of the overlay. Both standards and falls have strong leathery substance and the whole flower seems dusted with metallic gold. Strong sturdy stalks. H. M., A. I. S. 1941. R. 89 1941. 40 in. $10.00. [Mrs. Thomas Nesmith, Fairmount Gardens Catalog, Lowell, Massachusetts, Introductions for 1941. Summer 1942-Spring 1943].
1949 Checklist citation: Bull. A.I.S. 82:4 July 1941.

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