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'Pink Sensation' rose Description
'Pink Sensation (hybrid tea, Bos 1953)' rose photo
Photo courtesy of jedmar
Availability:
Commercially available
HMF Ratings:
4 favorite votes.  
ARS:
Medium pink Hybrid Tea.
Registration name: Pink Sensation (hybrid tea, Bos 1953)
Exhibition name: Pink Sensation
Origin:
Discovered by Henry Bos (United States, before 1953).
Introduced in United States by Premier Rose Gardens in 1958 as 'Pink Sensation'.
Introduced by Unknown (Australia) in 1960 as 'Pink Sensation'.
Class:
Hybrid Tea.  
Bloom:
Pink, darker center.  Strong fragrance.  30 petals.  Average diameter 3.75".  Large, full (26-40 petals), borne mostly solitary, high-centered to cupped bloom form.  Prolific, blooms in flushes throughout the season.  
Habit:
Medium, bushy.  Large, glossy, dark green foliage.  

Height: 5" to 6" (13 to 15cm).  
Growing:
Can be used for beds and borders, cut flower or garden.  Vigorous.  
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 1,584  on  26 Mar 1957   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 543,290  on  27 Oct 1955
Henry Bos, Melrose Park, Ill., assignor to The Premier Rose Gardens, Consolidated, Des Plaines, Ill.
...My new variety has been asexually reproduced in Illinois and California, by budding, grafting and rooting since November 1953
Parentage:
sport of Pink Delight (hybrid tea, Kordes, 1936)
Notes: