A RED SUNFLOWER.
At the Royal Horticultural Society's recent meeting (says a Home paper), Messrs Sutton received an "Award of Merit" for their remarkable and attractive novelty, the "New Red Sunflower." It is a very striking flower with a broad band of chestnut red round the base of the yellow petals, and it is the result of a cross made between Helianthus annus (the common annual yellow sunflower) and helianthus lenticularis (the common of North America), by Pi;ofessor .Cockerell;' -of 1 Boulder University, Colorado, who: handed over his stock to Messrs Sutton for development, and they are this year offering seeds for the first time. There has been no previous record of this colour in the popular helianthus annuus which is such a well-known and favourite annual in English gardens. Messrs Sutton-and Sons regard the"New Bed Sunflower" as the best floral novelty which has been brought out since they introduced the* Nemesia in 1888.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 26 September 1913, Page 3
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154A RED SUNFLOWER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 26 September 1913, Page 3
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