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'Half Time' rose Description
'Half Time' rose photo
Photo courtesy of Beth's Northern CA Rose Garden
Availability:
Commercially available
HMF Ratings:
4 favorite votes.  
ARS:
Red blend Hybrid Tea.
Registration name: Half Time
Origin:
Bred by O.L. Weeks (1912-2002) (United States, 1976).
Class:
Hybrid Tea.  
Bloom:
Yellow, butter-yellow reverse, salmon-pink edges, ages to orange-red .  Moderate, tea fragrance.  42 to 52 petals.  Average diameter 4".  Large, very full (41+ petals), borne mostly solitary, in small clusters, high-centered to cupped bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Leafy sepals buds.  
Growing:
USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).  
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 4,007  on  4 Jan 1977   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 05/671,273  on  29 Mar 1976
The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of rose plant of the hybrid tea class, which was originated by me by crossing the rose variety known as "Sunrise-Sunset" (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,244) which I have chosen to identify in my breeding records as No. 6651-12 with a rose variety known as "Peace" (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 591), the seedling No. 6651-12 being the seed parent and the pollen parent being the variety "Peace".
Parentage:
seed:[ Fandango (hybrid tea, Swim, 1950) × Roundelay] × [ Happiness (Hybrid Tea. Meilland. 1949) × Tiffany (hybrid tea, Lindquist, 1953)]
pollen: Peace (hybrid tea, Meilland 1935)
Notes:
US Patent states parentage as Sunset-Sunrise X Peace, 'Sunset-Sunrise' being Tiffany X (seedling X Happiness)