(TB) 'Sunday Best'
1941, Grant
'Sunday Best' (
Dr. Henry Lee Grant, R. 1940) TB. Late midseason bloom. Color Class-Y4L. strong fragrance. Dave Hall seedling# 36-34 x
'Evergold'. Fairmount 1941.
SUNDAY BEST (Grant 1941) M. L. A very large ivory self with well formed flowers of heavy texture carried on tall well branched stalks. The standards are very broad and firmly domed. The semi-flaring falls are extremely wide at the haft with cream yellow reticulations each side of the cadmium orange beard. The firm flowers have great weather resistance and fine garden value. 36 in. $7.50.
[Mrs. Thomas Nesmith, Fairmount Gardens Catalog, Lowell, Massachusetts, Introductions for 1941. Summer 1942-Spring 1943].
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