Inventors: Marie-Louise Meilland and A. Meilland, Antibes, and Michele Meilland Richardier, Tassin-la.Lune, France
A new and distinct variety of rose plant of the hybrid tea class, originated by crossing an unnamed and unpatented seedling with the rose variety Jack Frost, and obtaining an extreme purity of white color of its blooms, with firm and resistance texture of its petals, capable of forcing, with great yield capacity of flowers of quality.....The rose chosen as female genitor was an unknown and unpatented seedling, the product of the pollination of the variety MElchins-257F, more generally known in the trade under the name of Carina, by the variety MEban- 551, more generally known in the trade under the name Message; the rose chosen as male genitor was the variety known in the trade by the name of Jack Frost.