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Yellow blend Hybrid Tea.
Registration name: Pearl S. Buck

Bred by Wilhelm J.H. Kordes II (1891-1976) (Germany, 1940).
Introduced in United States by Jackson & Perkins Co. (Newark, NY) in 1940 as 'Pearl S. Buck'.

Hybrid Tea.  

Yellow blend.  Strong fragrance.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  

USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).  

United States - Patent No: PP 423   VIEW USPTO PATENT

Author Pearl S. Buck was born Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker in Hillsboro, West Viriginia, on 26 June 1892. At the ripe old age of three months, she moved with her family to China and spent most of the next forty years of her life there. Buck spoke both English and Chinese. In 1934, she moved to Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where she died in March 1973. Among her books is The Good Earth for which she was awarded a Pulitizer Prize. You can find out more about Pearl S. Buck and the organization which carries on her work and also bears her name at
Pearl S. Buck International.