'Lionel Barrymore' Rose

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'Lionel Barrymore' rose Description

My HMF:

Photo courtesy of jedmar

HMF Ratings:

2 favorite votes.

ARS:

Medium yellow Floribunda.
Registration name: Lionel Barrymore
Exhibition name: Lionel Barrymore

Origin:

Bred by William E. Silva (United States, before 1948).
Introduced in United States by Booy Rose Nursery in 1956 as 'Lionel Barrymore'.

Class:

Floribunda.

Bloom:

Yellow, darker undertones. Strong fragrance. up to 130 petals. Average diameter 3.25". Medium, very full (41+ petals), cluster-flowered, cupped bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season. Rounded buds.

Habit:

Armed with thorns / prickles, bushy, rounded, spreading, well-branched. Dark green foliage. 7 leaflets.

Height: up to 2' (up to 60cm).

Patents:

United States - Patent No: PP 1,574 on 26 Feb 1957 VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 565,521 on 14 Feb 1956

William E. Silva, Sebastopol, Calif., assignor to Peter J. Booy Nursery, San Jacinto, Calif., a partnership consisting of Peter J. Booy and Henry F. Eckardt.
..My new variety has been reproduced asexually by summer field budding since 1948 at Sebastopol, Calif., and its characteristics appear to be permanently fixed.

Parentage:

Duchess of Atholl × Orange Everglow

Notes: