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'JACmur' rose Description
'Fountain Square' rose photo
Photo courtesy of Jean Marion
Availability:
Commercially available
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HMF Ratings:
14 favorite votes.  
Average rating: EXCELLENT-.  
ARS:
White, near white or white blend Hybrid Tea.
Registration name: JACmur
Exhibition name: Fountain Square
Origin:
Discovered by Muriel Humenick (United States, 1984).
Introduced in United States by Jackson & Perkins Co. (post 1970) as 'Fountain Square'.
Class:
Hybrid Tea.  
Bloom:
White.  Mild, citrus fragrance.  25 to 30 petals.  Average diameter 5".  Large, full (26-40 petals), borne mostly solitary, high-centered bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  
Habit:
Tall.  Large, semi-glossy, dark green foliage.  

Height: up to 5' (up to 150cm).  
Growing:
USDA zone 6b and warmer.  Spring Pruning: Remove old canes and dead or diseased wood and cut back canes that cross. In warmer climates, cut back the remaining canes by about one-third. In colder areas, you'll probably find you'll have to prune a little more than that.  
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 6,805  on  16 May 1989   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 07/139,210  on  29 Dec 1987

A rose variety of the hybrid tea class is provided having vigorous, well
branched growth, an abundance of large, dark green, semi-glossy foliage
with blooms of white (having a slight indication of yellow pigment) and
very little fragrance, and with numerous stipitate glands on the edge and
outer surface of sepals on the rachis.



Inventors:
Humenick; Muriel (Diamond Springs, CA)
Assignee:

Jackson & Perkins Company
(Medford,
OR)


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