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'Henry Fonda' rose Reviews & Comments
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Parentage per Weeks Roses:
Christensen—1996
Parentage:
Baron G Del’ain x Sunbright
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Thanks Benaminh. Parentage added, although the seed parent of 'Baron Girod de l'Ain' is niggling at me. In the Patent for 'Henry Fonda' the seed patent was said to be a "seedling".
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13 JAN 16 by
Benaminh
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Doesn't make sense does it? But it might explain the weak stems and blackspot issues passed on from the Hybrid Perpetual seed parent. Besides, whatever's listed on patents is never set in stone, plenty of examples when patents in different countries for the same rose list conflicting parentage.
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I believe the Sunbright part. It has the identical faults and architecture issues.
Sunbright is equally disease prone. Actually, it is a pretty horrible rose. Worse vigor, more prickles, and nasty black spot, compared to its parent, New Day. New Day has worse mildew and lighter color, however.
I do not believe Baron was a parent, however. It may have been a typo. I still see catalog typos to this day, and even incorrect pictures.
"The primary objective of this breeding was to produce a new rose variety having the excellent vigor and dark green foliage of the female seedling, combined with the bright yellow, broad petals and vigor of the male parent. "
This seems to partially contradict the catalog text. It implies that the seed parent does not have strong vigor, and that it may be a seedling and not a known variety. Or, the whole patent could just be really sloppy. Who knows!
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Thanks to both of you. I've made a notation on 'Henry Fonda's page.
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