LADY GAY (Saunders, 1950) - Single - White-Pink - Hybrid. Large 6" ivory flowers; very brilliantly flared bright rose; flamboyant. Quadruple hybrid: albiflora, Officinalis, macrophylla, and Mlokosewitschi. List in Bulletin 129. Saunders 1955 catalog.
Lady Gay Early for the strain. Large ivory flowers, flamboyantly flared bright rose. ( QUADRUPLE HYBRIDS A "Mloko-macro" hybrid was crossed onto officinalis, and the resulting triple hybrid was in turn crossed onto an albiflora. Mloko gives them their golden ivory sheen, and many are brillantly flared. Introduced from 1949 on, their blooming season covers VE, E, and often on into M, Very few seeds are set.)
