'Mrs. Fred Straker' rose References
Book (1936) Page(s) 683. Straker, Mrs. Fred (HT) A. Dickson 1910; crimson-orange to silvery pale red, reverse orange-pink, mediums ize, double, fine form, fragrance 5/10, floriferous, repeats, growth 6/10, upright, well-branched. Sangerhausen
Book (1934) Page(s) 319. Mrs. Fred Straker (H.T.), 1910.- Crimson to fawn; vigorous; dwarf, bedding; prune moderately; fragrant.
Website/Catalog (1925) Page(s) 17. Mrs. Fred. Straker, crimson-orange, silvery soft pink when expanded, floriferous
Website/Catalog (1921) Page(s) 30. Roses. Mrs. Fred Straker, orange crimson; class: Hybrid Tea; habit of growth: vigorous.
Book (Apr 1915) Page(s) 62. Mrs. Fred Straker Hybrid Tea. Alex. Dickson & Sons, 1910. Description and cultivation... silver fawn on front of the petals; delicate orange pink on the back...
Website/Catalog (1914) Page(s) 25. Hybrid Tea Roses. Mrs. Fred Straker, Alex. Dickson & Sons, Ltd., 1910, vigorous. Orange crimson in the bud, developing to silvery fawn on front of petals, and delicate orange pink on back; buds long and elegant with a perfectly spiral finish, very floriferous.
Book (1914) Page(s) 80. A Descriptive List of the Newer Roses. 1910-1913. Mrs. Fred Straker (Hybrid Tea), A. Dickson & Sons, 1910. — Salmon-pink, yellow base. — Vigorous. — Garden.
Magazine (1913) Page(s) 378. Mrs. Fred Straker (HT, A. Dickson, 1910) is purely a decorative Rose with moderate-sized, well-shaped flowers of salmon-pink colour with a yellow base to the petals. I have had about a dozen plants for two seasons, and the early flowers are very pleasing, but later, though freely produced, they become less interesting.
Book (1913) Page(s) 140. Mrs. Fred Straker.- Rose suffused with orange in the young state, fawny pink at a later stage. A healthy, free-blooming variety...
Website/Catalog (1911) Page(s) 4. New Roses 1911. Hybrid Tea. Mrs. Fred Straker. Growth erect, vigorous and branching, a free and perpetual garden rose of great charm; orange crimson in the young bloom, changing to silvery fawn at point of the petals, reverse deiicate orange pink
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