According to Freepatentsonline.com, Autumn Glo ripens a week later than Earli Autumn. With a March 1 bloom, it is showing Autumn Glo as first picking August 15 at Modesta, CA. Both varieties are listed as having 16% Brix which is high for most commerical apricots. Both are firm fleshed with moderate juice and moderate aroma. Since their main appeal is for a late ripening variety, I would go with Autumn Glo since it is the latest.

I know the nursery I work at part-time has Embers, I am not sure about Sunset - it doesn't stick in my mind as one carried. Since they are in 3-gal., well-draining pots, under a large shade-cloth covered hoop house, overhead-watered daily and fed regularly, it doesn't QUITE replicate normal in-ground conditions. However, the summer foliage on all the 5-7 varieties the nursery carries looked good over the summer, but I don't think any of them dropped spent flowers cleanly. I know I spent a good bit of time on several of the days I was there, cleaning old petals off so the shrubs looked good for the customers! Several of the 'Autumn Embers' still had scattered flowers on them when I was last at work on Tues., but the main fall flush seemed to be over - since there is a major freeze forecast (which doesn't mean it will actually get there, nor that it will affect the hoop house, for 4-5 days from now, it's just as well, IMO.

Aladdin and his Enchanted Lamp - Philip Pulman ( Wishie Washie is Aladdin's brother in the well-known pantomime!)

Hmmm...I hadn't thought of that, Robert. It's possible. Someone with a lot of orange/salmon roses needs to weigh in. But I suspect it has more to do with the spinosissima ancestry. A couple of my other spins color up, as well, but not nearly as spectacularly as Prairie Peace ( I started to abbreviate Prairie Peace, but someone was bound to get a giggle out of it, lol). EDIT: lol...Sheila's post hadn't shown up when I made this comment. But her pic shows the great spin foliage perfectly. Prairie Peace takes it up a notch or two.