BEAU SABREUR. TB-M-Y9D (Williamson 30) Hesperis x (unknown x Dominion). Variegata... Dominion character... Height 34 inches.
Stalk well branched, below mid height. Eight flowers, well spaced. Flowers medium to large, 4 inches x 4 1/2 inches. Standards arched; cupped, obovate, aniline yellow, the midvein about mid length to apex heavily tinged Matthew's purple; from the central purple area, this color shades out over the upper central and apical parts of the blade in a most pleasing manner; claw maroon veined. Falls drooping, broadly wedge-shaped, ox-blood red, margin very slightly paler, haft yellowish green, maroon veined, nearly joining along the margins. Beard cadmium yellow. Style branches Pinard yellow, mid lines light lavender with a tinge of the same color in the crests. Leaves medium green, base green, slightly lax. Odor slight. Poor seeder.