Book  (1969)  Page(s) 90.  
 
1969 NZRA p90

Sam McGredy. Roses of Health and Vigour My First Aim.
'Fruhljngsmorgen' gave me a bicolour break. It did not turn out to be a very good plant because the shrub flowered only once a year, but there was something unusual about the colour. With it I bred two more generations with various floribundas and I now have a rose banded like a Gaillardia. The bush has masses of semi-double. roses, basically red, with a white eye and a white rim to every petal. I see it as one of the best breaks of my era. It is of course only the beginning and it will obviously be improved on by other hybridists as well as myself. This year it will be literally peppered with large flowered H.T.'s in the breeding programme. As well, I am using a dozen of its aunts, uncles, cousins and sisters! By the time it goes on the market in 1971 I will have raised close on half a million seedlings in that strain. Visitors to the St. Alban's Trial Grounds will be able to see it in flower this year. Its number MACVET 661366 IRL.