Height: 4 1/2'-5 1/2'
Color: Deep Red
Blooms: 4"-6"
Buds: Urn-Shaped
Petals: 25-40
Stems: 18"-20"
Foliage: Dark Green
Fragrance: Strong
Hybridizer: Swim & Weeks, 1964
If super fragrant dark red roses are your choice, this is it and has been for many years. Plants are strong and tall and produce a number of single long stemmed large blooms once the weather gets warm. Most fragrant dark reds are prone to mildew and this one is better than most but it does need a fungicide occasionally. If I were a hybridizer, I would concentrate on the dark red fragrant hybrid tea that is resistant to everything because it will outsell any other color including blue by 3 to 1.