1. The Winter Hardy Roses of Dr. Griffith J. Buck

2. This Program Services Committee presentation created by:
Mary Peterson
Master Rosarian

3. Photographic Credit: Dan Turner Elko County Rose Garden Elko, Nevada
Text/Notes Credit:
Jolene Adams
Mary Buck
Julie Gustafson
Julie Minot

4. Dr. Griffith Buck –
This is a Spanish story. It is a Canadian story. Essentially it is an American story. But it is also a German, Danish and Siberian story too.
It is a story of an ordinary Iowa kid that wanted to be a teacher and got hijacked along the way. He will enter history as a rose breeder.
Griffith Buck, or ‘Griff’ as he preferred to be called, came from humble beginnings from the small town of Rockford, Illinois in 1915.
Serendipity or twist of fate played a major role in the direction his life and talents would eventually lead him.
A chance encounter through an international pen pal program started him down the road to rose hybridizing that would evolve into a lifelong professional career as one of America’s premier rose breeders.

5. Iowa State University
Griffith Buck was a researcher and professor of horticulture at ISU from 1948 to 1985 during which time he hybridized and named more than 93 varieties of roses. Of those he introduced, 87 have a Buck rose in their heritage.
Collections of Buck roses can be seen at the Iowa Arboretum (Luther, IA) Reiman Gardens (Ames, IA), Bentonsport Gardens (Bentonsport, IA), & Elko County Rose Garden (Elko, NV)

6. Reiman Gardens Iowa State University, Ames Iowa
Griff joined the military in 1942 having enlisted in the U.S. Army where he taught illiterate recruits and later trained as a paratrooper.
He returned to Iowa State College where he enrolled in the horticulture program. He would go on to obtain his Ph.D and became a full professor in 1974.

7. Pedro Dot –
His pen pal in Spain turned out to be Pedro Dot. Pedro asked his niece, Maria Antonia to take over the correspondence. Through her, he passed along information as to how to hybridize roses. He was very generous sharing his methods and encouraged young ‘Griff’ to pursue what would become his magnificent obsession. Their relationship would flourish for over 30 years.
Photo: WorldWideWeb

8. Neils Hansen
Hybridizers that impacted Buck’s breeding efforts were Danish born Neils Hansen who brought ‘Rosa laxa Semipalatinsk’ from Siberia.
Given the unique winter conditions on the open prairies of Iowa, ‘Griff’ knew that any rose that he introduced was going to have to be winter hardy and able to regenerate quickly each Spring even if the canes died to the ground. With little or no budget, spraying for fungal diseases or insects was not an option so the roses that finally stood the test of time became a survival of the fittest with no winter protection or spray.
Photo:WorldWideWeb

9. Frank Skinner
Canadians Frank Skinner and Will Godfrey in 1949 persuaded Buck to use the Siberian cultivar in his own work as they believed it would yield hardy roses that would bloom from June until hard frost. Those early Canadian hybridizers blazed a lonely trail overcoming extremely adverse conditions with surprising rewards.
Photo:WorldWideWeb

10. Wilhelm Kordes II
The German connection came in the form of Wilhelm Kordes who sent rootstock of ‘Josef Rothmund’, a sweetbriar hybrid that he felt that using this as a seed parent would increase earlier bloom production.
‘Josef Rothmund’ is an orange & orange blend [ob], Pink-yellow blooms.  Strong fragrance.  Medium, semi-double to double, cluster-flowered bloom form.  Once-blooming spring or summer.  Small, ovoid buds.   
Habit: Leathery foliage.  (For exhibition purposes in the US, this rose must be entered using the AEN approved name ‘Joseph Rothmund’)
Parentage: Joanna Hill × Magnifica (Eglanteria, Hesse, 1916
Buck was extremely generous with his roses, frequently giving them away and rarely getting patents on them.
Photo:WorldWideWeb

11. Applejack – 1973 ARS rateing: 8.3
Pink blend [pb], Rose-pink blooms.  Mild, Fruity fragrance.  Single to semi-double bloom form.  Occasional repeat later in the season.   Habit: Height of 5' to 10'.  Width of 5' to 7‘.  Growing: Zone 4 thru 9.
 Parentage: Seed: Goldbusch Pollen: Josef Rothmund × Laxa rootstock
Pink blend shrub. Small long-pointed, ovoid crimson buds open to large (up to 10 cm in diameter) open, semi-double Neyron rose blooms stippled along the midrib of the petals with crimson. The flowers are borne several together on short strong stems and have good lasting quality. Petals drop off cleanly and have a strong clove fragrance. Foliage is abundant, green, leathery and medium-small with good disease resistance. Growth is vigorous, erect, later arching, to 2.5 meters. Profuse, intermittent flowering from late May to killing frost. Foliage is apple-scented.

12. Aunt Honey – 1984 – ARS rate: 8.1
Medium pink [mp] blooms.  Mild, Damask fragrance.  40 petals.  Large, double (17-25 petals), high-centered bloom form.  Occasional repeat later in the season.
Habit: Height of 4' to 5'  Width of 36" to 4'  
Growing: Zone 4 thru 9.     
The man that got Dr. Buck started in the rose breeding program at Iowa State had a wife who’s name was Helen. Her little nieces couldn’t say Aunt Helen, so he called a rose like they called their aunt, namely, ‘Aunt Honey’
Medium pink shrub. The large, ovoid-pointed buds are carmine rose opening to double (35-40 petals), high-centered, 4-5 inch blooms of lighter carmine rose. The blooms are borne in clusters of 5-10 and have a damask-like fragrance. The abundant, medium-sized foliage is olive green foliage and moderately resistant to disease. The thorns are tan and awl-like. The erect, ft, bushy plant blooms abundantly from early June until killing frost.

13. Barn Dance – 1975
One of the directions that ‘Griff’ took in choosing names for his roses was to pick names that were appropriate to all the corn belt rural pleasures.
Light pink shrub. The ovoid, pointed buds open to double (20-25 petals), shallow-cupped, 3-4 inch blooms of neyron rose to pale carmine over yellow ground, giving the effect of salmon to shrimp pink. The blooms are borne in clusters of 5-15 and have a light, wild rose fragrance. The abundant, leathery, medium-sized foliage is pale green aging to dark green. The thorns are green and awl-like. The bushy, 3 X 3 ft plant is shrub-like and blooms very freely in June and at intervals until killing frost.
Orange-pink & orange-pink blend [op] blooms.  Mild, Wild rose fragrance.  20 to 25 petals.  Double (17-25 petals) bloom form.  Occasional repeat later in the season.  Pointed, ovoid buds.   Habit: Height of 36" (90 cm).   Growing:Zone 4 thru 9.   
Parentage:Tickled Pink (hybrid tea, Lammerts, 1963) × Prairie Princess

14. Carefree Beauty – 1977 – ARS: 8.6
The most widely appreciated Buck rose in Canada is ‘Carefree Beauty’.
Characterized by its tolerance to cold winter temperatures, its continuous and profuse vase-life production of very large, delicate pink flowers throughout the growing season, and its adaptability for use as a low shrub or as a mass effect, low-maintenance bedding plant... originated as a seedling resulting from breeding efforts carried on since 1949 at Iowa State University with the object of producing winter-cold resistant ever-blooming garden roses suitable for use either as bedding plants or small shrubs, the new plant resulting from a cross of an unnamed seedling derived from "Applejack" (unpatented); "Dean Collins", P.P. 1279; "Queen Elizabeth", P.P. 1259; "Independence", P.P. 1036; and "Improved Lafayette" (unpatented) as the seed parent, and "Prairie Princess" (unpatented) as the pollen parent... the new plant was discovered in 1969
 Notes: In September 1998, the Montreal Botanical Garden (Le Jardin Botanique de Montreal) carried out a survey of its roses' resistance to black spot, powdery mildew and rust. This is one of the outstanding varieties which showed a 0% to 5% infection rate. The data was taken on well-established roses.
Medium pink [mp] blooms.  Strong fragrance.  15 to 20 petals.  Large, semi-double to double bloom form.  Occasional repeat later in the season.   Habit: Height of 4' to 5‘.  Width of 4' to 5' .  Growing: Zone 4 and higher.  Disease susceptibility: very disease resistant.   Parentage:Seed:[[Applejack × Dean Collins] × [Queen Elizabeth × Independence]] × Improved Lafayette Pollen: Prairie Princess

15. Countryman – 1978 -ARS rating: 6.9
This variety was named because it gave ‘Griff’ another idea on how to use these plants. This rose made him realize that you could use his roses in combination with other plants like the English do in their country gardens. It happened purely by accident. He had a bed of roses on campus where all the roses died except for ‘Countryman’. Since he had no roses for replacements and did not want to abandon the bed, he kept the plants of ‘Countryman’ and added Chinese Forget-me-nots, and French Marigolds. The result was spectacular.
Pink blend shrub. The large ovoid-pointed buds are light rose bengal opening to double (25-30 petals), cupped, open 4-5 inch blooms of light rose bengal with rose bengal on the petal reverse. The sweetly-scented blooms are borne singly and in clusters of The large, abundant foliage is leathery and dark green. The thorns are tan and awl-like. The vigorous, erect, bushy plant is spreading and produces abundant bloom from June until killing frost.
Pink blend [pb], deep pink [dp] blooms.  Strong fragrance.  25 to 30 petals.  Occasional repeat later in the season.   Habit:Height of 36" to 4'  Width of 4' .  Growing: Used for ground cover.  Zone   Parentage:Seed: Improved Lafayette × Independence Pollen: Maytime (shrub, Buck, 1975)

16. Distant Drums – 1985 – ARS rating: 8.0
Mauve shrub. The ovoid-pointed buds of pale cyclamen purple open to double (35-45 petals), imbricated, open, 4-5 inch blooms of rose purple which are tinted golden tan paling to gray lavender and tan with age. The blooms are borne in clusters of 1-10 and have an intense myrrh fragrance. The medium-large, abundant foliage is dark green and leathery. The thorns are brown and awl-like. The vigorous, erect plant is bushy and blooms from June until killing frost.
There are nearly 40 commercial sources for Buck Roses in the U.S., Canada, England, New Zealand, Denmark, Norway, India and Belgium.
Mauve & mauve blend [m] blooms.  Anise, Myrrh fragrance.  40 petals.  Medium to large, double (17-25 petals), globular bloom form.  Occasional repeat later in the season.   Habit:Height of 36" to 4' (90 to 120 cm).   Growing:Zone 5 thru 9.   Parentage:September Song × The Yeoman (shrub, Austin, 1969)

17. Dorcas
Dorcas was a television reporter on the college television station. Every noon she would have an interview program. Since he enjoyed being on her program ‘Griff’ named a rose for her.
Pink blend shrub. The ovoid-pointed buds of azalea pink open to double (35-45 petals), shallow-cupped, open, 4-5 inch blooms of azalea pink overlaying pale yellow which is heavily stippled with empire rose. The blooms have a light, pleasing fragrance and are borne in clusters of The abundant, leathery dark green foliage is coppery-tinted when young. The thorns are tan and awl-like. The erect plant is bushy and blooms freely from June until killing frost
Pink blend [pb], Pink-yellow blooms.  Mild fragrance.  40 petals.  Large, double (17-25 petals) bloom form.  Occasional repeat later in the season.   Habit:Height of 4'.  Width of 36".  Growing:Zone 4 and higher.   Parentage:Minigold × Freckle Face (shrub, Buck, 1976)

18. El Catala
This variety was named for Buck’s friend Pedro Dot who hailed from Catalonia, Spain.
Red blend grandiflora. The ovoid-pointed buds of dark red and silvery pink buds open slowly to double (30-40 petals), open, cupped, inch blooms of post Office red on the face of the petals and very pale neyron rose on the reverse. The general effect is a crimson/silver bi-colored flower. The red coloring may intensify and darken upon exposure to heat and sun. The blooms are borne in clusters of 1-8 and have a light, sweet fragrance. The large, glossy foliage is dark green and has good resistance to Blackspot and Powdery Mildew. The thorns are brown and awl-like. The erect, ft plant is slightly bushy and free-flowering from June until killing frost.
Red blend [rb], Lighter reverse blooms.  Mild fragrance.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.   Habit: Height of 36" (90 cm).   
Seed: Wanderin' WindPollen:[Dornröschen (shrub, Kordes, 1960) × Peace] × Brasilia

19. Freckle Face
Pink blend shrub. The medium-small, ovoid buds open to double (20-25 petals), open blooms of light spirea red heavily stippled and streaked with dark spirea red on the inner face of the petals. The blooms, borne singly and in clusters of 5-10, have a pleasing clove fragrance. The leathery foliage is medium green tinted with copper and has good tolerance to Blackspot and Powdery Mildew. The thorns are bronze-green and awl-like. The bushy, 2 x 2 ft plant is spreading and free-flowering from June until killing frost.
Pink blend [pb] blooms.  Clove fragrance.   Parentage:Seed:Vera Dalton × Dornröschen (shrub, Kordes, 1960)Pollen:[World's Fair × Floradora] × Applejack

20. Parentage: Gingersnap x Sevilliana
Gee Whiz
Yellow blend shrub. The ovoid-pointed buds of barium yellow tinted vermilion open to double petals, shallow-cupped, 3-4 inch blooms of barium yellow heavily streaked and freckled with vermilion. The blooms are borne in clusters of 1-10 and have a sweet fragrance. The medium-sized, leathery, dark olive green foliage is tinted with copper when young. The thorns are brown and needle-like. The low, bushy, ft plant is freely branching and blooms freely from June until killing frost.
Photo: Sam Kedem website
Parentage: Gingersnap x Sevilliana

21. Golden Unicorn – 1985 – ARS rating: 7.9
This cultivar was named for ‘Griff’s’ paratrooper division.
Yellow blend shrub. The large, ovoid-long-pointed buds of cadmium orange tinted at the edges with shrimp red open to double (25-30 petals), shallow-cupped, open, 4-inch blooms which are paler than the bud. The blooms are borne in clusters of 1-8 and have a sweet fragrance. The abundant, leathery foliage is dark olive green and has good tolerance to foliar disease. The thorns are tan and awl-like. The vigorous, upright, bushy, ft plant is spreading and blooms from June until killing frost.
Orange & orange blend [ob], yellow blend [yb] blooms.  Mild-to-strong, Fruity fragrance.  20 to 25 petals.  Average diameter 4".  Large, double (17-25 petals), cupped, in small clusters bloom form.  Occasional repeat later in the season.   Habit: Medium, bushy, rounded growth habit.   Height of 36" to 42" .  Width of 4'.  Growing:Zone 4 and higher.   Parentage:Seed: Paloma Blanca Pollen: Carefree Beauty × Antike (floribunda, Kordes, 1966)

22. Hawkeye Belle – 1975 – ARS rating: 8.2
This rose has large, 4 1/2", beautifully formed, double blooms of ivory white with a blush pink center that deepens with age...  White shrub. The ovoid, pointed buds of honeysuckle white open double (35-40 petals), high-centered to flat, inch blooms of honeysuckle white tinted with azalea and orient pink and intensifying with age. The blooms borne singly and in clusters of 2-10, have an intense sweet fragrance. The large, abundant, leathery foliage is dark green tinted with copper when young. The thorns are olive-green and awl-like. The erect, vigorous, very bushy, 3.5 x 3.5 ft plant blooms profusely in June and then continually until killing frost.
Light pink [lp], white, near white & white blend [w] blooms.  Strong fragrance.  38 to 45 petals.  Large, double (17-25 petals) bloom form.  Occasional repeat later in the season.   Habit:Height of 4' to 5' (120 to 150 cm).  Width of 4' . (120 cm).  Growing:Zone 4 and higher.   Parentage:Seed:Queen Elizabeth × PizzicatoPollen:Prairie Princess

23. Les Sjulin – 1981
Pronounced ‘Shoe – LIN’
Buck named this rose for a friend who was there for him every time he got a little discouraged. This is a beautifully formed, two-toned pink Grandiflora.
Buck roses run the gamut in form from singles to multi-petaled roses. They can be HT and Grandiflora. Many are modest shrub roses with pink predominating.
Colors range from purest white, reds and blends of pink, orange and yellow. They also range in ARS ratings from 7 to 8.5.
Pink blend grandiflora. The large urn-shaped buds of coral pink on the petal face and geranium on the reverse open slowly to double (25-30 petals), open to imbricated, inch blooms in which the colors remain relatively stable until the petals drop. The blooms have a moderately intense old-rose fragrance and are borne in clusters of 1-8. The abundant, leathery foliage is medium dark olive green has good field tolerance to Powdery Mildew and Blackspot. The thorns are greenish-brown and awl-like. The bushy, erect, ft plants are in continuous bloom from June until killing frost.
Pink blend [pb], Coral-pink blooms.  Mild, Old rose fragrance.  30 petals.  Average diameter 4.5".  Double (17-25 petals) bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.   Habit:Height of 4' .   Growing:Zone 4 thru 9.  Parentage:Seed:Country DancerPollen:[Dornröschen (shrub, Kordes, 1960) × Peace] × Pink Peace

24. Mavourneen
This rose was named for ‘Griff’s’ wife, Mary and is a seedling of El Catala.
Red blend shrub. The medium-large, ovoid-pointed buds are white-tinted currant red and open to double (20-25 petals), open, inch bi-colored blooms of currant-red on the face and white on the petal reverse. The blooms are borne in clusters of 1 - I 0 and have a light, sweet scent. The abundant, large, leathery, medium glossy foliage is dark green and is tolerant of normal foliar disease. The thorns are tan and awl-like. The erect plant is bushy and blooms from June until killing frost.
Red blend [rb] blooms.  Mild fragrance.  Occasional repeat later in the season.   Parentage:Seed:Tickled Pink (hybrid tea, Lammerts, 1963) × Prairie Princess Pollen:El Catalá

25. Music Maker – 1973 – ARS rating: 7.6
Honors and awards for his work read like a major Who’s Who of Rose Hybridizing. Additionally Griff was a member of the ARS for 55 years.
Light pink [lp] blooms.  Strong fragrance.  Hybrid tea bloom form.   Parentage: Unknown

26. Paloma Blanca
This variety is registered as a grandiflora.
White shrub. The globular-ovoid buds of ivory-white open to double (30-40 petals), cupped, inch blooms of ivory-white with a faint salmon pink blush which disappears with age. The blooms, borne in clusters of 3-1 0, have a pleasing, light fragrance. The abundant, leathery foliage is dark olive green and has good tolerance to disease. The thorns are tan and awl-like. The erect, bushy, ft plant is compact and spreading and in continuous, abundant bloom from June until killing frost.
White, near white & white blend [w] blooms.  Mild fragrance.  Large, double (17-25 petals) bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.   Habit:Height of 36" to 6' 7".  Width of 4' .  Growing:Zone 4 thru 10.    Parentage:Seed:Vera DaltonPollen:[Pink Princess × Lillian Gibson] × [Florence Mary Morse × [Josef Rothmund × DEL-Rosa canina var. froebelii]]

27. Paraglider
Orange blend shrub. The medium large, ovoid-pointed buds of nasturtium red over yellow open to double (25-30 petals), cupped, open, 44.5 inch blooms of azalea pink with carrot red on the petal reverse. The blooms, borne singly and in clusters from 2-10, have a light, pleasing fragrance. The medium-sized, abundant, leathery foliage is dark green tinted with copper. The thorns are tan and awl-like. The vigorous, bushy plant has a spreading habit and abundant bloom from June until killing frost.
During World War II, Griff was a paratrooper. ‘Paraglide’ is the title for the specialty magazine for paratroopers

28. Pippa’s Song
Medium pink shrub. The ovoid-pointed buds of rose Bengal open to double ( petals), imbricated, open, inch blooms of the same color. The blooms are borne in clusters of 3-10 and have a light pleasant fragrance. The abundant, medium sized, leathery foliage is dark green and has good tolerance to Blackspot and Powdery mildew. The thorns are tan and awl-shaped. The shrubby, erect plant is bushy and blooms from early June until killing frost.
Griff’s secretary had a daughter who was born with a very severe heart condition. The doctors predicted she would never live beyond her third birthday. Despite dire predictions, Pippa graduated from high school and while very restricted in what she can do, she said that having a rose named for her was the best graduation present she could have.

29. Pearlie Mae
This variety is classed as a Grandiflora and was named for Pearl Bailey because he enjoyed her television program so much. Originally he was going to use her name for a geranium that he bred but the introducer decided to go with a series name and color. ‘Pearlie Mae’ the geranium became ‘Sunbelt Scarlet’.
Apricot blend grandiflora. The large, ovoid-pointed buds of Neyron rose on the reverse and a blend of empire yellow, lemon yellow and neyron rose on the face open to double (30-35 petals), shallow-cupped, inch blooms which retain the colors of the bud. The abundant, leathery, large, semi-glossy, olive green foliage shows copper tints when young and has good field tolerance to Blackspot and Powdery Mildew. The thorns are red-brown and awl-shaped. The vigorous, erect, ft plants are bushy and bloom well from June until killing frost.
Apricot & apricot blend [ab] blooms.  Mild fragrance.  35 petals.  Large, double (17-25 petals) bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.   Habit:Height of 5'.  Width of 4'.  Growing:Zone 4 thru 9.   Parentage:Seed:Music MakerPollen:Queen Elizabeth × Country Music (shrub, Buck, 1973)

30. Prairie Sunset
The rose changes color as it opens and finishes red so Buck gave it an appropriate name.
While winter hardy varieties were premier with him, he soon realized he was also culling those varieties that were not disease resistant.
Size was also a primary consideration so he concentrated on those plants that were a more manageable size for most gardens. He did, however, keep some outstanding varieties that tended to be taller.
Yellow blend shrub. The large, pointed-ovoid to urn-shaped buds of straw yellow open to double (35-40 petals), open, inch blooms with vermilion faced petals overlapping a straw yellow base. When completely open, the petal face is rose Bengal, the reverse is Empire yellow tinted light rose Bengal. As the blooms age, the rose Bengal deepens to Tyrian purple. The blooms are borne in clusters of and have a light, sweet, pleasing fragrance. The abundant, moderately large foliage is leathery and dark green, The thorns are tan and internodal. The erect, bushy plant is slightly spreading and blooms from June until killing frost.
Yellow blend [yb], orange and yellow blooms.  Mild fragrance.  Large, double (17-25 petals) bloom form.  Occasional repeat later in the season.   Habit:Height of 5'.   Growing:Zone 4 and higher.   Parentage:Seed:Bonfire Night ®Pollen:Music Maker × Athlone

31. Princess Verona
This rose is similar to 'Prairie Princess' but bushier.
Medium pink shrub. The ovoid-pointed buds of Neyron rose open to double (25-35 petals), cupped to open, inch blooms of lighter Neyron rose (very similar to 'Prairie Princess'). The blooms are borne in clusters of and have a sweet, light fragrance. The abundant, leathery foliage is dark green and has good tolerance to foliar disease. The thorns are tan and awl-like. The compact, erect, ft plant is bushy and blooms abundantly from June until killing frost.
Medium pink [mp] blooms.  Mild fragrance.  35 petals.  Average diameter 4".  Double (17-25 petals) bloom form.  Occasional repeat later in the season.   Habit:Height of 36" to 5'.  Width of up to 4' .  Growing:Zone 4 and higher.   Parentage:Verona × Prairie Princess

32. Queen Bee
Queen Bee has cupped, velvety dark cardinal red flowers that appear in clusters of 5 to 8. Dark red shrub. The ovoid-pointed buds of dark red open to double (30-40 petals), high-centered to cupped, inch blooms of velvety dark cardinal red which age a bit lighter. The blooms are borne in clusters of 5-8 and have a pleasing old-rose fragrance. The abundant, large leathery foliage is dark olive green and has good field tolerance to foliar disease. The thorns are brown and awl-like. The erect, bushy plant is free-branching and blooms from June until killing frost.
A friend of Buck’s was the garden editor for Better Homes and Gardens for many years. She also wrote a gardening column in the Des Moines Sunday Register. She told Griff that she would not let anyone name a rose for her because she didn’t want to hear: Fleeta has a weak neck, Fleeta blackspots, Fleeta wilts, Fleeta fades. Since she was called the queen bee of garden writers, he took his cue and called this rose ‘Queen Bee’.
Dark red [dr] blooms.  Damask fragrance.  40 petals.  Double (17-25 petals), high-centered bloom form.  Occasional repeat later in the season.   Habit: Height of 36".   Growing: Zone 5 thru 9.   Parentage: Seed: Rosali × Music Maker Pollen: Square Dancer × Tatjana

33. September Song
Apricot blend grandiflora. The large, ovoid to urn-shaped buds tinted red open to double (25-30 petals), slightly cupped, open, inch blooms of orange over a white base which pales to coral pink with age. The blooms, borne singly and in clusters of 5-8, have a fruity fragrance. The semi-glossy, leathery foliage is dark olive green tinted copper. The brown thorns are thin and awl-like. The erect, ft plant is bushy and blooms continually from early June until killing frost.
Parentage: [(Vera Dalton x Prairie Princess) x (Apricot Nectar x Prairie Princess)]

34. Sevilliana
This rose commemorates the music and dancing of Seville, Spain.
Pink blend shrub. The ovoid-pointed buds of light claret rose open to double (15-20 petals), slightly-cupped to open, inch blooms of light claret rose with spinel red "freckles" and with a yellow flush spreading from the petal base. The blooms, borne singly and in clusters of 5-15, have a spicy fragrance. The leathery foliage is mid-green with copper tints and semi-glossy. The thorns are red-brown and awl-like. The erect, 3 x 2 ft plant is bushy and free-flowering from June until killing frost.
Pink blend [pb], Pink-yellow blooms.  Spicy fragrance.  Semi-double (9-16 petals) bloom form.   Habit:Height of 36".   Growing:Zone 4 and higher.   Parentage: Seed: Vera Dalton × Dornröschen (shrub, Kordes, 1960)Pollen:[World's Fair × Floradora] × Applejack

35. Griffith J. Buck Shrub Trophy
Buck retired at age 70 and many of his varieties survived because of his personal collection and his friends who offered cuttings to fill out the collection.
To honor him, the ARS presents the Griffith Buck Shrub Trophy each Spring at the National convention. Griffith Buck passed away March 28, 1991 at age 75. He left a legacy of beauty through his roses few of us can ever hope to match.
Photo by: Elena Williams

36. Winners of the Griffith J. Buck National Trophy
in New Orleans, LA Lynn Snetsinger Arcadia, CA Symphony, The Squire, Fair Bianca in San Diego, CA Bob & Kitty Belendez, Santa Clarita CA William Shakespeare 2000, Perdita, Abraham Darby in Shreveport, LA Karen & Gregory Constant, Baton Rouge LA Polonaise, Teasing Georgia, White Meidiland in Bellevue, WA not awarded in St. Paul, MN Bruce & Margaret Barr, Port Washington, WI Graham Thomas, Amiga Mia, Kathryn Morley
Winners of the Griffith J. Buck National Trophy
Minneapolis, MN Marily Young, Glenview IL Heritage, Abraham Darby, Evelyn Albuquerque, NM Marily Young, Glenview, IL Leonard Dudley Braithwaite, Queen Margretha, Kathryn Morley Nashville, TN Russ & Lori Anger, Indianapolis, IN John Cabot, Mary Rose, Robusta in Houston, TX Claude & Pam Graves, Texas Golden Celebration, English Elegance, Prairie Sunrise in Portland, OR Bob & Kitty Belendez - Santa Clarita CA Abraham Darby, Geoff Hamilton, Perdita in San Jose, CA Suzanne M. Horn, Glendale CA Fair Bianca, The Squire,
William Shakespeare 2000

37. Program Services Committee John Mattia, Chairman Jolene Adams Richard Donovan Pat Hibbard Larry Peterson Mary Peterson Diane Schrift

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