Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants of outstanding excellence for exhibition
Qualified as a show flower.
Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1967. FCC(e) 1967; This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).
Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants which are of great merit for exhibition
Qualified as a show flower.
Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1964. AM(e) 1964; This plant earned the Certificate of Preliminary Commendation (PC).
Given on the recommendation of Committees to a new plant of promise for exhibition
Qualified as a show flower.
Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1960. PC(e) 1960;
Fl. forming a double triangle or sometimes more rounded, 120 mm wide, pale creamy white; perianth segments very broadly ovate, blunt or rounded at apex, more or less prominently mucronate, spreading, plane, with margins incurling at apex, overlapping half; the inner segments more nearly acute, a little inflexed, twisted or with margins wavy; corona cylindrical or somewhat funnel-shaped, lightly angled, with mouth expanded and even, rim shallowly crenate and sometimes rolled. Resembles ‘Ave’ but with wider perianth and green in tube. Cup can come with or without a roll.
Canisp, 2 W-W, John S.B. Lea, England, 1960, England
Photo: Graham J. Phillips, New ZealandCanisp, 2 W-W, John S.B. Lea, England, 1960, England
Historic Image: RHS Yearbook, EnglandCanisp, 2 W-W, John S.B. Lea, England, 1960, England
Photo: Gordon Coombes, New ZealandCanisp, 2 W-W, John S.B. Lea, England, 1960, England
Photo: George Tarry, England