Excerpt of a Robert Simonet letter to Percy Wright. August 19/1966.
"On checking my records of the parentage of roses, I was surprised at the very fair results I have been getting from my use of Skinners 'Suzanne' rose as a pollen parent on HTs. Although most of these seedlings show considerable kill-back, they send out strong canes from the base and these flower in clusters at their tips, in tones of pink, but do so later than the HTs."
Only one of these selections survives - 'Red Dawn' x 'Suzanne', which Dr. Felicitas Svejda at the Ottawa Central Experimental Farm used to develop nearly all her Explorer Rosa kordesii cultivars.
"Suzanne. Rosa laxa hybrid, shrub to four feet, leaves small dark green, flowers fully double pale coral pink, free flowering and in bloom throughout the summer. Introduced 1949."
Dr Frank Leith Skinner papers Province of Manitoba Archives
