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'Smooth Perfume' rose Description
'Smooth Perfume' rose photo
Photo courtesy of jedmar
Availability:
Commercially available
Synonyms:
HMF Ratings:
11 favorite votes.  
ARS:
Light pink Hybrid Tea.
Registration name: HADperfume
Exhibition name: Smooth Perfume
Origin:
Bred by Harvey D. Davidson (United States, 1990).
Introduced in Canada by Hortico Inc. as 'Smooth Perfume'.
Class:
Hybrid Tea.  
Bloom:
Light pink to cream, lavender edges.  Strong, damask fragrance.  up to 28 petals.  Average diameter 4.75".  Very large, very double, borne mostly solitary, in small clusters, cupped bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Large, ovoid buds.  
Habit:
Few or no prickles/thorns, upright.  Glossy, leathery foliage.  

Height: up to 39" (up to 100cm).  
Growing:
USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).  
Patents:
Australia - Application No: 1993/265  on  1993   VIEW PBR PATENT
 
United States - Patent No: PP 7,728  on  3 Nov 1991   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 07/638,439  on  3 Jan 1991
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