`Morden Fireglow' Rose

Abstract

The breeding program at the Morden Research Station is designed to develop hardy, attractive roses for Canadian prairie conditions. Cultivars developed from this program are known collectively as the Parkland Rose Series of which there have been eight previous introductions (Marshall, 1977). 'Morden Fireglow' is the newest cultivar and Received for publication 20 Feb. 1990. The cost of publishing this paper was defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. Under postal regulations, this paper therefore must be hereby marked advertisement solely to indicate this fact.

Hardy-rose Breeding at the Morden Research Station

“…The results of inheritance studies of these pigments (Marshall et al, 1983) were used in breeding for scarletred and white flowers. 'Morden Fireglow' was developed through the selection of its parents on the basis of a chromatographic determination of anthocyanin pigment content (Collicutt, 1991;Marshall, 1975). This cultivar combines winter hardiness with a unique scarlet-red flower, a color rarely seen in hardy roses.…”