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'Red-Letter Day' rose References
Website/Catalog (2017) Page(s) 23. Includes photo(s). Red Letter Day Rediscovered old rose. Known parent to many modern red roses. Large spreading bush. Very fragrant.
Book (2007) 'Red-Letter Day' Hybrid Tea, deep pink, 1914 A. Dickson. Includes description.
Book (Apr 1999) Page(s) 445. Red-Letter Day Hybrid Tea. A. Dickson, 1914. The author cites information from different sources... Scarlet crimson...
Website/Catalog (1999) Page(s) 14. Thought to be extinct, popular in the late 1920’s, our plant was found in a customer’s garden. Pinkish-red with lighter reverse, informal blooms and very fragrant. Tall, semi-double. Very fragrant.
Book (Apr 1993) Page(s) 492. Red-Letter Day Hybrid Tea, velvety rose-red, white streak in center of inner petals, stamens cinnamon, 1914, Dickson, A. Description.
Website/Catalog (1989) Page(s) 6. 'Red Letter Day'. Deep red, semi-single.
Book (1969) Page(s) 40. Rona Hurst. Roses and Genetics. …. a popular garden rose of the ‘twenties ‘Red Letter Day’, with a very high proportion of R. chinensis blood which made it extremely free and perpetual flowering.
Article (misc) (1954) Page(s) 41. Red Letter Day 28 chromosomes
Book (1952) Page(s) 251. Red-Letter Day. HT. (A. Dickson, '14.) Medium size (3½ in.) semi-dbl., velvety rose-red, white streak down centre of inner petals, stamens cinnamon; short stem. Fol. glaucous sage-green. Vig. NRS GoldMedal, '13.
Book (1948) p221. Hawlmark Crimson. (H.T.) Intense velvety-crimson, semi-double flowers. There is a veining of maroon through the blossoms. A grand grower with strong, healthy foliage. Very similar to Red Letter Day but much darker in colour. Bedding.
p234. Red Letter Day (H.T.) Flower velvety, brilliant, glowing scarlet-crimson, opening to medium-sized curiously cactus-shaped flowers, which do not fade or burn in the sun, as the reflex of the petals is satiny crimson scarlet colourings devoid of blue or magenta, semi-double. Growth erect and free-branching; free and continuous flowering throughout the season. Bedding.
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