Hades
Classification:
2 W-R[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Hybridizer:
Registered:
Yes, before 1921
Awards:
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 1928. AM(e) 1928; 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 1925. PC(e) 1925;
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 1928. AM(e) 1928; 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 1925. PC(e) 1925;
Special Class:
ADS Historics
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
20 times as seed, 49 times as pollen
Comments
Perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, prominently mucronate, creamy white, spreading, with incurled margins reducing the apparent width, overlapping one-third; the inner segments a little inflexed, with margins sometimes nicked at shoulder; corona broad and shallow bowl-shaped, ribbed, deep cherry red, with mouth even and rim raggedly crenate.
Synonyms:
'Glad Eye#'
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Hades, 2 W-R, Mrs. R.O. (Sarah) Backhouse, England, 1921, England
Historic Image: Oregon Bulb Farms, USA
Hades, 2 W-R, Mrs. R.O. (Sarah) Backhouse, England, 1921, England
Historic Image: Oregon Bulb Farms, USA
Hades, 2 W-R, Mrs. R.O. (Sarah) Backhouse, England, 1921, England
Historic Image: Albert F. Calvert, England
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