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'Pink Favorite' rose Description
'Pink Favorite' rose photo
Photo courtesy of Cliff's High Desert Garden Archival Dec, 2011 last updated 101812
Availability:
Commercially available
Synonyms:
HMF Ratings:
17 favorite votes.  
ARS:
Medium pink Hybrid Tea.
Registration name: Pink Favorite
Origin:
Bred by Gordon J. Von Abrams (United States, before 1955).
Introduced in United States by Peterson & Dering in 1956 as 'Pink Favorite'.
Introduced in United Kingdom by C. Gregory & Son Ltd. in 1960 as 'Pink Favorite'.
Introduced by Unknown (Australia) in 1961 as 'Pink Favourite'.
Class:
Hybrid Tea.  
Bloom:
Deep pink.  Neyron rose.  Mild, spice fragrance.  21 to 28 petals.  Average diameter 4.75".  Very large, very double, borne mostly solitary, in small clusters bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Medium, long, pointed buds.  
Habit:
Compact, upright, well-branched.  Medium, glossy, dark green, leathery foliage.  3 to 7 leaflets.  

Height: 30" to 4¼' (75 to 130cm).  Width: up to 2' (up to 60cm).
Growing:
USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).  
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 1,523  on  2 Oct 1956   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 544,626  on  2 Nov 1955
Gordon J. Von Abrams, Scappoose, Oreg., assignor to Eldon Pinkey Dering, doing business under the name of Peterson & Dering, Scappoose, Oreg.
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