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Flower Name
Seagull
Division:
3 - Small-Cupped 
Colors:
W - Y
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:
Rev. G.H. Engleheart
Country:
England, UK
Year of first flowering:
pre 1893, registered with the RHS
Seed Parent:
Pollen Parent:
Seedling Number:
22
Pedigree Chart:
Descendants:
None
Special Class:
ADS Historics
Comments:
Fl. up to 127 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate in outline, blunt or rounded at apex, fairly prominently mucronate, pure white, spreading or a little inflexed, with margins incurling and sometimes wavy, separated at base, sometimes overlapping at mid-point; corona bowl-shaped, ribbed, canary yellow, with pale orange at rim soon fading to yellow, loosely frilled. Resembles sibling 'Albatross' but with no contrasting color at corona rim at maturity.
Description in Cartwright & Goodwin's 1914 catalog: “canary cup edged apricot”
Synonyms:
'Sea-gull'
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