■(TB) 'Crazy Clown'

1959, Babson

'Crazy Clown' (Sanford Babson, R. 1958). Seedling# G83-1. TB, 32" (81 cm), Midseason bloom. Standards amber flushed pink; falls amber washed lavender, maroon pin stripes, red reticulations at haft. Seedling# E9-2 (involving 'Snow Flurry', 'Remembrance', 'Mexico' and 'Prairie Sunset') X 'Tobacco Road'. Melrose 1959.

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References:

From AIS Bulletin #153, April 1959: Introducing CRAZY CLOWN (Sanford Babson) NOVELTY SHOP INTRODUCTION. 40". This Harlequinesque comedian is dressed in amber flushed pink and lavender with gaudy maroon and red stripings on the falls. Net $7.50. Melrose Gardens.
From Melrose Gardens catalog, 1964: CRAZY CLOWN (Babson) Harlequinesque buffoon in amber flushed pink in the standards and lavender in the falls. The falls are also pinstriped a deeper color and with bold red veins on the haft. 2.50.

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