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'Excitement ™' rose Description
Photo courtesy of Two Sisters Roses
ARS:
Deep yellow Grandiflora. Registration name: HILcoExhibition name: Excitement ™
Class:
Florists Rose, Grandiflora.
Bloom:
Deep yellow. Strong, sweetbriar fragrance. 18 to 22 petals. Average diameter 4". Large, double (17-25 petals), high-centered bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season.
Growing:
USDA zone 6b and warmer. Spring Pruning: Remove old canes and dead or diseased wood and cut back canes that cross. In warmer climates, cut back the remaining canes by about one-third. In colder areas, you'll probably find you'll have to prune a little more than that.
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 4,412 on 15 May 1979 VIEW USPTO PATENTApplication No: 911348 on 1 Jun 1978 Inventor: Jelly, Robert G. (Richmond, IN). Assignee: E.G. Hill Co., Inc. (Richmond, IN). A yellow rose seedling intended for greenhouse culture and the production of cut flowers, the new plant being of the grandiflora class and particularly distinguished by its continuous and abundant production of large high centered blossoms, its vigorous upright growth habit with many multiple breaking canes topped by a long tapered bud of excellent yellow flower color, and its low incidence of winter blind... Parentage: 'Golden Fantasie' (USPP003272) x 'Coed' (USPP003166) in September of 1971 in Richmond, IN, with the object of eliminating the winter blind produced by 'Golden Fantasie' and to increase the stem length of 'Coed'...
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