Quaker Lady Farr, 1909 TB 27" M S3L From Cornell Extension Bulletin 112, 1925: "Color effect a smokey lavender, ageratum-blue, bronzed and blended bicolor. S. pale purplish venaceous, of silky surface texture, bronzed throughout. F. mauvette to deeper ageratum-violet, bronzing at the edge and becoming yellow-olive on outer haft. Reticulations deep gold to olive brown. The beard is fine, projecting, and yellow-orange, and the styles are cream-buff. The growth is vigorous, and the plant has lax, slender, deep yellow-green leaves, tinged at the base. The flowering stalks are freely produced, above medium height, well branched, and carry their numerous blooms in a fine

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mass. The soft, smokey lavender, blending with old gold in the fair-sized, firm-textured flowers, is very pleasing when used in mass with bright yellows. This variety is a late bloomer. Rating 84."