Fortune's Beauty
Classification:
2 Y-O[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Spring
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:
Registered:
Yes, before 1928
Seed Parent: 
Bernardino 2 W-YYO 
Philip John Worsley, England
Year Registered: 1907
Lulworth x Duchess of Brabant
Bernardino
Pollen Parent: 
Fortune 2 Y-O 
Walter T. Ware, England
Year Registered: 1917
Sir Watkin x Blackwell
Fortune
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 89 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, fairly prominently mucronate, primrose yellow, a little inflexed, somewhat ribbed, overlapping 1/3 to 1/2; inner segments twisted or with margins wavy, appearing to be acute, more strongly ribbed; corona short and broad funnel-shaped, strongly ribbed, bright orange, with mouth straight, tightly frilled;

Origin of Name

Part of the Brodie of Brodie’s “Fortune’s” Series.

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Fortune's BeautyFortune's Beauty, 2 Y-O, The Brodie of Brodie, Scotland, 1928
Photo #31218 RHS Yearbook, England