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Classification:
2 Y-O[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Hybridizer:
Registered:
Yes, before 1950
Seed Parent: 
(
Bokhara 2 Y-O 
The Brodie of Brodie, Scotland
Year Registered: 1923
Tamerlane x Fortune
Bokhara
x
Porthilly 2 Y-O 
Percival D. Williams, England
Year Registered: 1927
Porthilly
)
Pollen Parent: 
Armada 2 Y-O 
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1938
15/7 {[Princess Mary x (Emperor x King Alfred)] x Fortune} x Cornish Fire ?
Armada
Chromosomes:
28
Fertility:
Both Seed and Pollen fertile
Used as parent:
8 times as seed, 4 times as pollen
Comments

Fl. 111 mm wide; perianth segments broad, vivid yellow, with margins very slightly incurved, overlapping; corona ribbed, vivid orange, mouth expanded, rim regularly dentate.

A description from a 1966 catalog: “…cup fiery orange-scarlet to base.”