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eJOURNAL ARCHIVES - 2004 - THE WORLD - ROSES RAISED IN JAPAN |
Updated 6 September 2004
ROSES RAISED BY BREEDERS IN JAPAN
This is a translation of the list of rose varieties raised by Japanese breeders which was compiled by Mr. Osamu Hashimoto, a member of the Japan Rose Society.
Each year, the yearbook of the Society journal, Bara Dayori (Rose News), has given a report on the registration of roses the JRS has accepted that year. Mr. Hashimoto went through all the past issues of the yearbook and made a list of all the roses which Japan's breeders had raised by 1998. He further completed the list by cross-referencing and including all the Japanese roses listed in Modern Roses XI.
The comparison of the two lists has revealed that there are a considerable number of roses which breeders have registered with the ARS but not in Japan, though a larger number of the roses registered with the ARS are also registered in Japan.
This translated series covers all the items in Mr. Hashimoto's first list as well as those given in the JRS yearbooks from 1999 through 2003. Regrettably, the list gives no information on roses not registered with the JRS, or those raised before the 1950s. At present, it is extremely difficult to collect detailed information on those roses, especially on those raised during or before World War II.
The roses in this series are classed in five categories: HTs, floribundas, climbers, miniature roses, and “others.” In each category, the roses are aarranged in alphabetical order, and for each rose, all the information obtained from its breeder is given on the following – the rose's:
• name – what MR XI calls the 'fancy name' – in single quotation marks, and its brief translation or explanation in square brackets [ ] when it is given in Japanese;
• flowers – how they are borne, colour(s), shape, size, the number of petals, etc.;
• floriferousness;
• fragrance;
• foliage;
• tree shape and growth habit;
• prickles;
• use(s) the breeder considers most appropriate;
• parentage; and
• breeder's name and the year of introduction or registration.If the name of a rose is underlined, it means that the rose is also registered with the ARS and is entered in MR XI. The translator has noticed that in some cases, there is considerable difference between the descriptions given in our list and those in MR XI. This is most likely due to alterations made by the Modern Roses XI editing committee based on differences in climate and geography between their local knowledge of the rose and the hybridizers' submitted growing information.
Most of the roses registered with the JRS by Keisei Rose Nursery were registered with the ARS by the names of the breeders who supervised the hybridization programme of the nursery: the late Mr. Seizo Suzuki and, after 1994, the late Mr. Hiroshi Hirabayashi.
The translator has added a list of the Japanese roses registered with the ARS and/or at some other agents outside Japan and the United States. It gives just the names of the roses and their breeders and the years of registration. For most of these roses, however, a detailed description can be found in MR XI.
Akira Ogawa, TRN Japan Correspondent
Jef Cameron-Martin, TRN Managing Editor
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PART I: HYBRID TEA ROSES
Section 1
1) 'ACCIDENTALLY!'
• Flower solitary, orange-red, reverse light yellow; exhibition form: 12cm, 30 petals; slight fragrance; foliage purplish green; upright growth, low; prickles sparse, underside concaved. 'Lamplighter' x 'Piccadilly'; M. Suga, 1988.
2) 'ACHAN' [a child's name]
• Flower light yellow, edged deep pink; exhibition form, 15cm; slight fragrance; large, brownish green leaflets; upright growth. 'Lady X' x 'Red Lion'; M. Suga, [year unknown]
3) 'AKEBONO' [daybreak]
• Flower solitary, deep yellow, edged purplish red, prone to sunburn; exhibition form, 15cm, 40-50 petals; late-blooming, not very floriferous; medium fragrance, fruity; foliage thick, large, wide, dark green, glossy; upright growth, tall, branches sparse; prickles pointing downward, underside concaved. 'Ethel Sandy' x 'Narzisse'; S. Kawai, 1964
4) 'AMATSU OTOME' [the name of an actress, meaning 'Heavenly Maiden']
• Flower solitary, yellow, deeper in Autumn; 15cm, 50 petals, high-centered, petals reflected; slight fragrance; foliage small, semi-glossy; semi-upright growth; bedding rose. 'Chrysler Imperial' x 'Doreen'; K. Teranichi, 1960
5) 'ANRI' [a girl's name]
• Flower apricot-blend (precisely, yellow shading into pink toward the edge), reverse pale yellow; 14cm, 30-35 petals; high-centered, petals reflected; very floriferous, prone to produce side-buds; slight fragrance; foliage light green, semi-glossy; medium growth; prickles three (3) to four (4) per 10cm; bedding and cut-flower rose. 'Jana' x 'Mme. Sachi'; H. Otsuki, 1992
6) 'AOZORA' [blue sky] = 'Blue Sky'
• Flower solitary, deep mauve, 13-15cm, 36-40 petals; high-centered, petals reflected; very floriferous; intense fragrance; foliage dark green, leathery; bushy, upright, very vigorous growth; bedding rose. seedling of: 'Sterling Silver' x 'Seedling'; Keisei Rose Nursery, 1967
7) 'ARATAMA' [uncut gem]
• Flower solitary, apricot-yellow, edged scarlet (darker on the upper side), 14cm, 30 petals, high-centered, petals reflected; slight fragrance; leaflet slightly long and narrow; upright, slender branches; exhibition and bedding rose. 'Kordes Perfecta' x ('Garden Party' x 'Christian Dior'); T. Takahashi, 1976
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