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Registered Name: 'Royal Flush'
ARS Approved Exhibition Name: Royal Flush
LCl, pb, 1970, Fuller; bud ovoid; flowers cream, edges blending pink, medium, semi-dbl., cupped, moderate fragrance; repeat bloom; foliage dark, leathery; vigorous, upright, climbing growth. [Little Darling × Suspense]
Introductions: Wyant

Book  (2005)  Page(s) 137.  
 
Reprinted from Heritage Roses NZ Journal 12(2): 24-25 (1991)
For many years now I have been raising seedling roses as well as sundry fruit trees. First of all I tried to raise some good roses free of thorns, and worked with a smooth stem rose, a Hybrid Tea / Floribunda named Royal Flush from Florida, U.S.A. This rose had Turkey red-orange blooms.

Book  (2005)  Page(s) 133.  
 
Reprinted from Heritage Roses NZ Journal 8(3): 18-20 (1987)
I happen to have had a dozen bushes of such a rose named Royal Flush. None of these bushes have any thorns at all, but I detect an odd thorn on one bush. What's more, the petioles of the leaves are also smooth and thorn-free. So far no single offspring from this rose has been 100 percent thorn-free, though generally speaking thorns are hard to find on the seedling rose bushes. 'Royal Flush' is a bicolour - turkey-red and orange - very bright and attractive and the bush is healthy.

Book  (2005)  Page(s) 127.  
 
Reprinted from Heritage Roses NZ Journal 11(1): 21-22 (1990)
I have grown batches of seedlings from the only smooth stemmed Hybrid Tea/Floribunda I have ever seen, a bi-colour turkey red-orange rose known as Royal Flush, but this capacity to produce smooth stemmed seedlings is misleading. The first year a plant may be without thorns, but by the third year thorns develop, sometimes to excess, in spite of its smooth-stemmed parent.

Book  (2005)  Page(s) 115.  
 
Reprinted from Heritage Roses NZ Journal 8(1): 5-11 (1987)
....I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the hips which form in great numbers on a 100 per cent thorn-free modern Floribunda rose named Royal Flush the seeds of which I have used in rose breeding.....

Book  (Dec 1998)  Page(s) 522.  
 
Royal Flush Large-flowered Climber. Fuller (USA) 1970... Medium-sized blooms that are cream with the edges blending to pink...

Book  (1997)  Page(s) 143.  
 
Harvey Davidson. Principal, Western Sun Roses, California, USA
(Mr. Davidson opened his address [to the 1996 Australian Rose Festival Conference] with an account of rose growing in California....
In 1957 Mr. Davidson commenced breeding for disease resistance in roses. In 1961 the first thornless rose was observed. This was 'Smooth Sailing' bred from 'Little Darling x 'Pink Favourite'. It was not totally thornless, exhibiting a few thorns. Several years later another similar rose appeared - Royal Flush which again had 'Little Darling' as a parent. Initially these two roses were thought to be coincidental sports.

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 523.  
 
Royal Flush Large-flowered Climber, cream, edges blending pink, 1970, 'Little Darling' x 'Suspense'; Fuller. Description.

Book  (1984)  Page(s) 37-43.  
 
K. J. Nobbs. Breeding Thornless Roses.
Royal Flush, LCl, a cross of Little Darling x Suspense. A good seed parent for thornfree progeny — a pillar-type rose.

Book  (1980)  Page(s) 454.  
 
Royal Flush LCl. (Fuller; int. Wyant, '70). 'Little Darling' x 'Suspense'. Bud ovoid; fl. medium size, semi-dbl., cupped, fragrant, cream, edges blending pink. Fol. dark, leathery. Vig., upright cl.; abundant, continuous bloom. pb.