Fortune's Gift
Classification:
2 Y-O[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Spring
Year of first flowering:
1927
Hybridizer:
Registered:
Yes, 1930
Seed Parent: 
Fortune 2 Y-O 
Walter T. Ware, England
Year Registered: 1917
Sir Watkin x Blackwell
Fortune
Pollen Parent: 
Robin Redbreast 3 W-R 
Mrs. R.O. (Sarah) Backhouse, England
Year Registered: 1907
Robin Redbreast
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. large; perianth segments broadly or very broadly ovate, rounded at apex, fairly prominently mucronate, pale yellow, spreading, smooth, overlapping one-third; the inner segments a little inflexed and sometimes creased; corona broad funnel-shaped, rich reddish orange, mouth ribbed and widely expanded, wavy.

A description according to the Calvert Catalog dated 1936: “Broad, smooth, overlapping yellow perianth segments, and wide frilled orange red cup, very striking colour.”

Origin of Name

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