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(TB) 'Brown Bonnet'

1941, Gage

'Brown Bonnet' (L. Merton Gage, R. 1938) TB. Early bloom. Color Class R6M. slight fragrance. 'King Midas' x 'Rosy Wings'. Gage(Sunnyside Gardens) 1941, Fairmount 1941.

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From Sunnyside Gardens catalog, 1941: BROWN BONNET—(Gage, 1941), (King Midas x Rosy Wings). Standards are dark Olive Buff. Falls Hay’s Russet, a deep brown tone, and style branches golden orange. Beard orange bronze. Definitely a distinctive and stunning break in color combination, occuring more often among the intermediates. Branching could be better. Substance very good. and smooth, velvety texture. Faintly fragrant and early. 26 to: 28 inch. $10.00. ORIGINAL CATALOG DESCRIPTION.
BROWN BONNET (Gage 1941) M. Again we harve a very unusual and lovely iris from Mr. Gage, and as always it is a pleasure to assist in the introduction of this glowing brown beauty. The standards are tawny gold, broad, arched and firmly held. The falls have the same tawny undercolor with a heavy overlay of velvety Hays Russet (Ridgway). Broad orange beard. A gay iris of vivid brown tones with well formed flowers on lowly branched stalks. R. 88 1941. 28 in. $10.00. [Mrs. Thomas Nesmith, Fairmount Gardens Catalog, Lowell, Massachusetts, Introductions for 1941. Summer 1942-Spring 1943].
 


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