■(TB) 'Phèdre'

1929, Cayeux

'Phèdre' (Ferdinand Cayeux, 1929) TB. Midseason bloom. Color Class S3L

See below:

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References

Bulletin de la Société Nationale d'Horticulture de France, 1928, 5e série, Tome I, p. 266.
From Cayeux et Le Clerc catalog 1930, p. 7: "This new variety throwing stems 3 1/2 feet tall bearing enormous flowers. The standards are lavender suffused lilac, the falls spreading almost horizontaly amaranthine-rose paling off gradualy to light lavender at the margins. A very fine ample plant of great vigour."

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