SUMMARY OF THE DISCOVERY

The present discovery constitutes a new and distinct variety of floribunda rose plant which was discovered in the spring of 1990 in a cultivated area. The mutation resulted from a naturally occurring mutation of unknown causation discovered in a controlled planting as a branch of`POULskov`, a patented variety described and illustrated in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,062 and issued on Feb. 28, 1995. The new variety is named `POULthe`.