Article (newsletter)  (Feb 1985)  Page(s) 1.  
 
The cross of 'Fairy Moss' x "No. 26 stripe" produced several seedlings, but only one plant bore striped flowers. The slender buds opened into seven to eight petaled, 1.5 inch, lightly mossed flowers, which were freely produced on a low growing plant. There were two major faults: (1) the plants were weak and difficult to keep going and (2) of the seven to eight deep pink to light red petals, only one or two petals on each flower showed stripes. But we did find that when pollen was used on other varieties (miniature and otherwise) we got a number of striped seedlings in the offspring. Thus, nearly all of today's "bred to order" striped roses have come out of seedling No. 26 stripe and its offspring through our striped miniature seedlings "No. 33 stripe"...

Book  (1978)  Page(s) 43.  
 
[Parentage tree of Strawberry Swirl]
Seedling #33: Fairy Moss x Seedling (Little Darling x F. Pichard)