NOWETA ROSE Readily Opens a Dozen Florets at One Time. 
wk *& & « (536) (Fischer, 1949) 
Regal Red e e e (100 days) (Hinden- 
burg’s Memory x Liberator) We sold so close on Regal 
Red last year that we had nothing left to bloom but 
planting stock. The cool, rainy weather of August and 
September retarded these 5’s and 6’s so much that they 
were just beginning to throw their massive spikes 
when the September 27 frost cut them down. So we 
didn’t see very much of Regal Red last summer. 
Nevertheless it is a magnificent glad and the picture 
on page 41 in no wise exaggerates its resplendent 
beauty. Regal Red opens 5-6 enormous florets on gun- 
barrel spikes fully five feet tall. The florets pictured 
were 6 inches in diameter but customers report grow- 
ing Regal Red with florets as much as 714 inches across. 
The exact shade of Regal Red will vary slightly de- 
pending on the soil. With us it is an intensely lustrous 
scarlet-red with a white line in the throat—the whole 
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