A catalog contradicted this given parentage sequence, so I looked at the patent images. The US Patent says: Seed Parent: ((Happiness x Chrysler Imperial) x El Capitan) Pollen Parent: Comanche.

Here's another one in my favorite color and from my favorite late mid-century time specialty.........as time pulls away from 1973 when this one took home an AARS, this one actually looks "better" now than it did then. In 1973, BIG BLOOMS and EXHIBITION FORM were the buzz words and on those terms Gypsy was a flop for the blooms are not huge and they sure are not formal. They are scalloped and the color is somewhere between Chinese Red and Oxblood Red and that color was already trending out/over-introduced by 1973. The plant is a little under-foliaged but the disease resistance is pretty good. Just so many of this color back in those days, this one, again came late and in my opinion, although "above average" should not have won the AARS in 1973 but had it been introduced even a few years earlier would have been much better received. Most assuredly is NOT the "joke" it was titled all those years ago...........and of interest to anyone who "likes" the color, or the era and/or the "sociological" aspect of rose marketing and how sometimes just being a little "ahead" gets a variety extremely far whereas being just a little "behind" deems the variety, well, a "joke" as per above............