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'Cynthia' rose Reviews & Comments
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6 OCT 21 by
ksinGA
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Just completed the first season with Cynthia. Wow, what a surprise. She has been an excellent rose. Great form, color, and fragrance. Beautiful shade of hot pink. The bush has been healthy as well. Definitely recommended!
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According to NY Times from 1976, it’s parentage is
(Pink Peace X Happiness) X Bob Hope
“William Warriner has followed Gene Boerner as a hybridist with an impressive record of fragrant roses. His pedigree of my namesake rose, Cynthia, which will be introduced in 1977, goes back to 1859. An unnamed seedling was crossed with Bob Hope and in 1968 notes made on the offspring were that it was medium‐pink to rosered in color with a very strong Old‐World fragrance and a good plant habit.
The parents of the rose seedling were Pink Peace crossed with Happiness and the rose Bob Hope's parents were Friedrich Swartz crossed with Kordes Perfecta.”
https://www.nytimes.com/1976/06/06/archives/three-new-roses-are-winners-the-nose-knows-if-a-modern-rose-has.html
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Many thanks for that Enrique. The seed parent of (Pink Peace x Happiness) is confirmed by the Plant Patent and is now added.
The seed parent was probably Caliente (floribunda, Warriner 1974) but it is safer to add it as above.
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