(TB) 'Starbright'
1941, Douglas
'Starbright' (
Geddes Douglas, R. 1940) TB. Midseason to Late bloom. Color Class Y5M reversed. Fragrant.
'Soldano' x
'China Clipper'. Fairmount 1941.
STARBRIGHT (G. Douglas 1941) M. L. A very large reverse bicolor with the standards darker than the falls. The standards are roundly arched and domed of palest cadmium yellow with a very strong midrib and slight ruffling at the edge. The broad semi-horizontal falls have a platinum white area in the center blending into a border of pale yeltow. Each side of the thick chrome yellow beard are plicata markings of golden cinnamon extending well down the falls. A full rounded flower of heavy substance, excellent form and exceptionally fine branching. R. 88 1941. 37 in. $5.00.
[Mrs. Thomas Nesmith, Fairmount Gardens Catalog, Lowell, Massachusetts, Introductions for 1941. Summer 1942-Spring 1943].
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