Book  (1928)  Page(s) 57.  
 
A List of Fifty of the Best Inexpensive Varieties
Red Varieties
Old Silver Tip (Brand).  7.6.  Red.  So named because of the very marked silver effect on the edges of the petals as the blooms open, and which gives a very beautiful, irridescent effect to the color of the flowers as you stand and look up a row of this variety, and its silvered petals gently moving in the wind.
Old Silver Tip is a wonderfully profuse blooming flower, semi-rose type.  Flowers of large size produced on compact growing plants of medium height and mid-season.  Color a soft madder-red with a pronounced silver sheen on petals as the flower develops.  Both a good cut flower and good for landscape values.  A very desirable sort that through the many years I have had it under test has universally produced an abundance of first class, good-sized blooms.