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'Souvenir d'Alexander Petöfi'....József Zsednyicsek, head gardener at the Budapest garden of Gusztáv Emich, Member of Parliament, was able to reproduce this rose from seeds by hybridising it. There are no further details about its parentage available. It won a silver medal at the spring 1888 exhibition of the Országos Magyar Kertészeti Egyesület (cf. Kertészeti Lapok, January 1889, volume 4, no. 1, p. 2). This rose, classified in the category of hybrid tea roses, was characterised by its contemporaries as being robust in shape, having round leaves, being somewhat thorny and bringing forth flowers on all its shoots. The blossoms wer medium-sized or large, delicate pink on a base of silver-white. Its colour was long-lasting and turned purple-pink in maturity. It blossomed almost continuously. (Cf. Kertészeti Lapok, May 1888, volume 3, no. 5, p. 117).