You didn't ask about Phi Sigma Sigma's flower because we are specific that it is the American Beauty Rose (which is hard to find at florist). However this website has a great picture of what it looks like
http://www.uncommongarden.com/r/americanbeauty.html if I could figure out how to put images in the thread I would have done that.
Here's information about our rose from this website (for those with old roses as your flower you may want to look there for information on it). I even bought an American Beauty Rose Bush from this site and it has already bloomed quite a few times. It's even more beautiful then I ever thought
American Beauty Rose (a.k.a. Mme. Ferdinand Jamin): A leading grower of indoor roses from the beginning of the twentieth century said that American Beauty was grown by the hundreds of thousands. "Some places," he wrote, "are given over entirely to this one variety. It brings the highest price of any cut rose, and is eagerly sought on account of its fragrance, its long stiff stem, its grandly beautiful foliage, as well as the loveliness of the bloom..." Right from its launch in 1886 the price per stem was at least two dollars, which meant that it was a rose for the rich.
Color: Quote from a 1912 catalog: An "unusual shade of carmine-crimson, with a brilliant underglow, has over it a soft violet tinge, as if a film of bluish smoke hovered over the red velvety petals
Carolyn
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