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'Picasso' rose References
Book  (1977)  Page(s) 34.  
 
Review of Newer Roses - 1976-77 Season. Floribundas.
'Picasso'. Cherry red-silver. 10 reports; 4 years; 90cm; N.R.S. 6.8. Christchurch: Repeats quickly. Can have large heads, small bush. Te Puke: As one crop of flowers fade another appears. No problem. Waipawa: Improving with age.
Book  (1976)  Page(s) 148.  
 
Sam McGredy: Hardest person to get permission from was Picasso. I was after him for a long time before I got the OK.
Book  (1976)  Page(s) 28.  
 
Review of Newer Roses - 1975-76 Season.
'Picasso. Cherry red/silver. 11 reports; 3 years; 75cm; N.R.S. 7.6. Waipawa: Very attractive but not very big bush after two years. Cambridge: Very bushy plant. more than just a novelty. Kaiapoi: Healthy, very free, vigorous. Hasn't put a foot wrong.
Book  (1975)  Page(s) 18.  
 
Review of Newer Roses, 1974-75 Season.
'Picasso'. Cherry red. 13 reports; 2 years; 24-30"; N.R.S. 7.4. Taupo: Healthy, low growing spreading habit smothered in flowers and good repeater. Garden variety. Lower Hutt: A good doer. Very nice colourfu1 garden rose. No growing problems, blooms aplenty. Christchurch: Has improved this year. A novelty, but am not very impressed.
Book  (1974)  Page(s) 67.  
 
Dr. A. S. Thomas  Roses Overseas 1973. 
Picasso, Fl. (McGredy, 1971). 'Marlena' x ['Evelyn Fison' x ('Fruhlingsmorgen' x 'Orange Sweetheart')]. Light red, three inch blooms with a clear white eye and a white edging to each of the 15 petals. Type B (three to seven flowers in each panicle). This rose has had a lot of publicity and it is unusual but I am afraid that I cannot like it.
Book  (1974)  Page(s) 38.  
 
Leonard Hollis, England.  The Twelve Best Recruits, 1969-72. 
Another important break is 'Picasso, 'Marlena' x ['Evelyn Fison' x ('Orange Sweetheart' x 'Fruhlingsmorgen')], raised by Sam McGredy IV. The "hand-painted" effect of the petals is the most striking characteristic. Each petal has a deep carmine blotch, tailing off into crayonnings towards the outer edges. The edges of the petal are much paler, either pale pink or silvery, forming a deep picotee effect, with a silvery reverse. The pattern and colouring changes considerably at different times in the season. The flowers are loosely formed, moderately full (25 petals) and borne very freely in trusses. Growth is bushy, very prickly (R. spinosissima blood revealing itself) and inclined to be angular, with small foliage. Black spot has appeared on my plants but it is by no means one of the most susceptible seedlings. This striking introduction has already produced a whole range of "hand-painted" seedlings in various colour combinations, some of which are already in their second year at the Trial Ground. 'Picasso' won a Certificate of Merit in 1970 and was perhaps a little unlucky not to have received a Gold Medal.
Book  (1974)  
 
p12. David Ruston. Roses of Distinction.
Sam McGredy's 'Picasso' is a new colour break, but so far the "hand-painted" look does not appeal to me. The colour is rather dull and washed out and for general effect cannot be compared with Mr. Dawson's 'Imp' ....which keeps its colour very well, which 'Picasso' does not. There is no mistaking either variety.

p136. Trial ground Awards 1973. Gold Star of the South Pacific and Certificate of Merit: 'Picasso'. Fl. S. McGredy, Northern Ireland. (Avenue Nurseries).

p143. Isobel Coulston. Review of Newer Roses, 1973-74 Season
'Picasso' 15 reports. 1 year. 24". N.R.S. rating 7.6. Waipawa: A new departure in garden effect. Te Puke: Always in bloom. Very pleased with this. New Plymouth: Really gay garden rose, healthy foliage.
Book  (1972)  Includes photo(s).
 
p27. E. F. Allen. Trends in Roses. Much more recently Mr. Sam McGredy has been fortunate in bringing out the particular genes present in R. s. bicolor ('Grahamstown' and 'Staffa') when he crossed 'Orange Sweetheart' with 'Fruhlingsmorgen' to produce an important parent coded MACJOS. Crossed with 'Marlena' this has yielded the very remarkable 'Picasso' to introduce the so-called hand-painted strain.....MACJOS, in spite of poor foliage, has shown considerable promise.

p45. Rev. Father Brian Fenton. A Kiwi Rose-Lover on Tour
At Portadown in Northern Ireland, I visited Sam McGredy's plant, where he has six mammoth hothouses, four for bud stock, and two for hybridising. They showed me through present varieties, new arrivals, and arrivals yet to be put on the market. 'Picasso' was pointed out as an exciting new colour breakthrough, and that the Americans were taking excitedly to this "hand-painted" rose. The actual bushes being raised for the selling market, were planted three miles away, a million of them.

p48. Photo. 'Picasso' (Floribunda). 'Marlena x ['Evelyn Fison' x ('Fruhlingsmorgen' x 'Orange Sweetheart)]. Raised by S. McGredy IV, N. Ireland. Courtesy Avenue Nurseries Ltd.

p70. Sam McGredy. The First World Rose Convention.
Parks roses should also be short like 'Marlena' and 'Picasso' which stay close to the ground and never throw very tall shoots and they should flower early.

p71. ibid. He... said before they were looking for new types of plants but of course they were also looking for improved flowers, too. 'Picasso' with its "hand painted look" was bred from 'Fruhlingsmorgen'. He had made crossings with the latter and all the seedlings looked very scruffy so he planted the lot in his own garden as they had no commercial value to the nursery whatever. They grew a year unattended and one looked particularly healthy in the garden. He took blooms to the nursery one day and told the hybridiser to pollinate 'Marlena' with them.
Book  (1971)  Page(s) 17.  
 
E. F. Allen. Awards To New Rose Seedlings In Great Britain In 1970.
A Certificate of Merit was awarded to Picasso ['Marlena' x ('Evelyn Fison' x 'Orange Sweetheart' x 'Fruhlingsmorgen' )]. This remarkable Floribunda, by McGredy, is one of the most interesting new seedlings to appear for many a decade and represents the first of what its raiser has nicknamed the "Hand Painted Series." The rose-red petals are edged paler but the boundary between the two colour zones is attractively diffused. Those rosarians familiar with Rosa spinosissima bicolor, under such cultivar names as 'Grahamstown' and 'Staffa'. will recognize the source of the gene responsible for this fascinating new break. We shall see many more such seedlings in the next decade. Some years ago I well remember looking at one of these Scotch Roses in the old National Rose Species Collection at Bayfordbury, and Gordon Rowley, who was showing me round, remarked on the possibility of using such tetraploids in a breeding programme. Sam McGredy must be congratulated on this new break.
Book  (1971)  Page(s) 33.  
 
E. F. Allen. Awards to new Rose Seedlings in Great Britain 1970.
'Picasso'. 'Marlena' x ('Evelyn Fison' x ['Orange Sweetheart' x 'Fruhlingsmorgen']). This remarkable floribunda, by McGredy, is one of the most interesting new seedlings to appear for many a decade and represents the first of what its raiser has nicknamed the 'Hand Painted Series'. The rose-red petals are edged paler but the boundary between the two colour zones is attractively diffuse. Those rosarians familiar with Rosa spinosissima bicolor, under such cultivar names as 'Grahamstown' and 'Staffa' will recognise the source of the gene responsible for this fascinating new break. We shall see many more such seedlings in the next decade. Some years ago I well remember looking at one of these Scotch roses in the old National Rose Species Collection at Bayfordbury and Gordon Rowley, who was showing me round, remarked on the possibility of using such tetraploids in a breeding programme. Sam McGredy must be congratulated on this new break.
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