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Harison’s Yellow

The  deep yellow colored Hybrid Foetida rose named Harison’s Yellow.
 This rose's location in the garden is
 This rose's location in the garden is "old garden roses" area.
  • Classification: Hybrid Foetida   
  • Flower Color:  deep yellow
  • Flower Size: 2 inches
  • Flower Form: semi-double
  • Petal Count: up to 25 
  • Fragrance: mild
  • Repeat Bloomer: once in early spring
  • Foliage: small, mid-green, fern-like
  • Plant Height: up to 6 feet
  • Plant Width: 4 feet
  • Growth Habit: upright
  • Disease Resistant: yes
  • Hybridizer: George Folliott Harison
  • Registered: about 1884
  • Parentage: probably ‘Persian Yellow’ x ‘R. spinosissima’
  • ARS* Rating: 8.2 (a solid to very good rose)
    *American Rose Society Rating

Awards:
  • None

Notes:
  • George Folliot Harison (1776-1846) was a reclusive New York lawyer who had a private greenhouse in an area that is now near Times Square.  He kept few records of his hybridizing, so the parentage is not known.  Harison’s Yellow was sold initially by the Prince Nursery in Flushing, New York, for $2.  It was wildly popular (the first yellow rose ever created in the U.S.) and was carried west in Conestoga wagons with the early pioneers.  Many wound up in Texas and became so abundant that people came to believe it was native to the area.  The song, Yellow Rose of Texas, was about a woman, but the name stuck for the flower. --- Brenner & Scanniello, (A Rose by Any Name, pages 278, 279).

  • “Rosa foetida, known by several common names, including Austrian briar, Persian yellow rose, and Austrian copper rose, is a species of rose, native to the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia. It has yellow flowers with a scent which some find objectionable. Since there were no yellow roses native to Europe, its introduction from Persia was an important addition to the cultivation of roses, and R. foetida is now an important contributor to the stock of cultivated roses.” --- (Wikipedia, “‘Rosa Foetida’,”) retrieved March 2021.
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