Roman Candle
Classification:
2 W-P[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Oregon Bulb Farms

Oregon Bulb Farms
, Oregon, USA
Registered:
Yes, before 1950
Special Class:
Seed Parent: 
Tunis 2 W-WWY 
Percival D. Williams, England
Year Registered: 1927
(King Alfred x unknown)
Tunis
Pollen Parent: 
Mrs. R.O. Backhouse 2 W-P 
Mrs. R.O. (Sarah) Backhouse, England
Year Registered: 1921
Lord Kitchener ? x 3W-R seedling~
Mrs. R.O. Backhouse
Pedigree Chart:
Fertility:
Seed fertile
Used as parent:
2 times as seed
Descendants:
Comments

According to Jan deGraaff’s Record book of the 1951 descriptions of flowers then being grown at Oregon Bulb Farm: “5 inch diameter; white round, slightly cupped perianth; trumpet is broad and full flared and ruffled; opens apricot becoming rich pink throughout, fading through soft shell pink to white at the very end.”

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