[From Miniature Roses: Their Care and Cultivation, by Sean McCann, p. 17: the author cites Generosa as being an example of this type of rose...] It was not a miniature as we use the word today, but it was a beautiful rose in miniature and came to be labelled the Hybrid Tea miniature... 'Generosa' was the progenitor of a strain of cut-flower cultivars grown mostly in Italy from the end of the 1960s to the present...