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Photo courtesy of jedmar
ARS:
Medium red Large-Flowered Climber. Registration name: Red Empress
Class:
Climber, Large-Flowered Climber.
Bloom:
Red, deep pink center. Strong, tea fragrance. 30 to 35 petals. Average diameter 3.5". Medium to large, full (26-40 petals), borne mostly solitary, in small clusters, cupped, high-centered to cupped bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season. Medium, leafy sepals, long sepals, ovoid buds.
Habit:
Climbing, well-branched, light prickles. Medium foliage. 5 leaflets.
Growing:
USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 1,573 on 26 Feb 1957 VIEW USPTO PATENTApplication No: 585,373 on 16 May 1956 ...I utilized as the female parent a remontant climber bearing semi-double red flowers, shaded with ornge, this parent having benn derived from a cross of "Holstein"...with the variety named "Record" (unpatented). The male parent which I used was a hybrid tea rose bearing large and well-shapped orange-red floawers and derived from the same cross as that which produced the female parent, namely "Holstein" X "Record".
Notes:
"Robur the Conqueror" is a novel by Jules Verne (1886). Robur has built a dirigible named "Albatros" which he directs from USA to China, Himalayas, India, Caspian Sea, Europe, Africa, Antarctica.
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