by Karl K » Mon Apr 15, 2019 2:24 pm
http://bulbnrose.x10.mx/Roses/breeding/ ... llette.htm
Basye (1985)
65-626 = (((
R. carolina x Hugh Dickson) x OP) x OP)
"My record book shows that in 1961 I made a somatic chromosome count of the mother of 65-625 and found it to be 28. Apparently I never got around to making the count for 65-626. But over the last 20 years, its wide compatibility with garden roses, both as male and female parent, leaves little doubt that it, too, is a tetraploid."
77-361 = Probable amphidiploid x 65-626
"Recently I grew 36 selfed seedlings of this rose. None had bristles! 29 were thornless with smooth midribs; three were thornless with rough midribs; three had a few thorns and smooth midribs; and one had a thorns and a rough midrib. Also, five of the seedlings showed
some recurrence, possessed also by the mother, 77-361. This may be a throwback to the rugosa ancestor, or even to Hugh Dickson."
"If 65-626 should, in younger hands, be privileged to play some role in the thornless garden roses of the future, then perhaps it should a name. I have chosen Commander Gillette, for the navigator on the light cruiser, USS Marblehead, on which we both served during World War II."
http://bulbnrose.x10.mx/Roses/breeding/basye/gillette.htm
Basye (1985)
65-626 = ((([i]R. carolina[/i] x Hugh Dickson) x OP) x OP)
"My record book shows that in 1961 I made a somatic chromosome count of the mother of 65-625 and found it to be 28. Apparently I never got around to making the count for 65-626. But over the last 20 years, its wide compatibility with garden roses, both as male and female parent, leaves little doubt that it, too, is a tetraploid."
77-361 = Probable amphidiploid x 65-626
"Recently I grew 36 selfed seedlings of this rose. None had bristles! 29 were thornless with smooth midribs; three were thornless with rough midribs; three had a few thorns and smooth midribs; and one had a thorns and a rough midrib. Also, five of the seedlings showed [u]some recurrence, possessed also by the mother, 77-361[/u]. This may be a throwback to the rugosa ancestor, or even to Hugh Dickson."
"If 65-626 should, in younger hands, be privileged to play some role in the thornless garden roses of the future, then perhaps it should a name. I have chosen Commander Gillette, for the navigator on the light cruiser, USS Marblehead, on which we both served during World War II."