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Quart Pot
This is a tasteful beauty 0f refined carriage which somehow manages to convey a passionate abandon barely suppressed. The shapely flowers open yellow from darker buds and then age to a mellow even apricot. The interior of the flower has a generous rosy halo suffused around the slightly paler throat. This has much appeal and was named appropriately by George Davison in 1906. Lady Emma Hamilton was by all accounts a talented beauty who was the mistress and later wife of Sir William Hamilton, the British envoy to Naples. They became great friends with Horatio Nelson, later Lord Nelson and hero of many epic sea battles. Nelson and Emma were smitten with each other and Nelson would live with Emma and her husband when he was not at sea completely forsaking his wife. This continued for many years with Emma bearing his child, a daughter Horatia, until they finally left their spouses and moved in together. There was no scandal larger in England but they bore it well until Nelson's death in 1805 during the battle of Trafalgar. Despite Nelson's will that the government pension her well, she received no money and eventually ended in debtors prison. Upon her release, she went France to avoid other creditors but with spirit broken, soon died.