The first breeding successes begin at the crossroads of the old ones, classic bouquet roses with large-flowered roses. It was the first time that Dane Poulsen managed to do this, one of the world's oldest breeders, with a beautiful track record mainly in the field of bouquet roses. He is in a year 1911 by crossing Mme Norbert Levasseur with the Richmond variety, belonging to tea hybrids, received the variety Ródhatte, which started a new breed of bouquet roses, called bouquet hybrids - R.. polyantha hybrida hort., constituting an intermediate form, it is like a bridge between small-flowered bouquet roses and large-flowered tea hybrids. Indeed, they have features of both. Flowering abundance, the property of embedding flowers in bouquets and good branching were obtained from old small-flowered bouquet roses; and a greater size of flowers and foliage were taken over from tea hybrids. The corymbose produced are also rather flat in shape, not domed, and are much larger than in the old varieties.
This breed of bouquet roses in a short time( has become extremely fashionable and popular, displacing the old "poliantki" into the shadows, which could not withstand competition with them. They are more effective, they have a richer color scale and therefore are still an extremely valuable breed of roses with mass use, especially in urban and housing estate green areas. First, the most deserved variations are: Joseph Guy, Else Poulsen, Dorothy Dix, Distinction, Kirsten Poulsen. Especially the first - Joseph Guy - can boast an unprecedented career in terms of mass use and long-term popularity. Enough to say, that even today it is eagerly planted and sought after by Scandinavian importers. She was bred in a year 1921 by the French Nonin by crossing the already known Ródhatte with the Richmond variety. It is undoubtedly an outstanding item in the history of rose breeding.
The next step is to further improve bouquet roses by refining the shape of the flowers and increasing their fullness.. For this purpose, bouquet hybrids were crossed with large-flowered roses, mainly tea hybrids, initially not having more serious effects. At that time (thirties), we already had a variety of bouquet roses with exceptionally beautiful and full flowers, a navy-pink color, very similar to large-flowered roses. Odmiana to - Gruss an Aachen (Patient, 1909) arose from the intersection of the common and well-deserved renovator Frau Karl Druschki with the tea hybrid Franz Deegen. She was included in the race of R.. polyantha, for she had flowers gathered in bouquets, although the size and shape of flowers was closer to tea hybrids. For several dozen years, Gruss an Aachen was unique among bouquet roses, not having others like you. Only in 1929 r. released the sport of lacquer-pink flowers - Pink Gruss an Aachen - and in 1930 r. a sport with silky flowers, pink - Rosa Gruss an Aachen. The mutation with white flowers - Weisse Gruss an Aachen - comes from the year 1944. Today we see, that it was the first bouquet rose of the type, which only several decades later was distinguished into a separate breed of roses - Rosa floribunda hort. Roses of this breed, having all the advantages of R.. polyantha hybrida hort .. surpass them in size and structure of flowers.
The first swallow of success in this field at that time was the enthusiastically welcomed and repeatedly awarded Rosenelfe (Kordes, 1936), which was initially classified by Kordes himself as R.. polyantha hybrida hort., and only later to R.. floribunda hort. The next representatives of this breed come from the years 1938 (Go to Kordes) i 1940 (rose fairy tale). Real successes come only in the post-war period, mainly in the fifties and sixties. From this period, we have a long list of true celebrities in cultivation, like Elysium, Feurio, Irish Wonder, John S. Armstrong, Meteor, Lily Marlene, farandole, Lund’s Jubilaum, Orange Sensation, Spartan, Rodeo, Korde's special report, European, Zorina. There are varieties in this breed, in which the size and shape of flowers have already been brought to such perfection, that in terms of these features they are more similar to tea hybrids than to bouquet roses; such varieties are therefore also suitable for cut flower cultivation. These include, for example: Ely-sium, John S. Armstrong, Spartan, Korde's special report.
