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'My Friend' rose Description
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'My Friend (floribunda, Motose 1955)' rose photo
Photo courtesy of jedmar
HMF Ratings:
1 favorite vote.  
ARS:
Light pink Floribunda.
Registration name: My Friend (floribunda, Motose 1955)
Origin:
Discovered by Thomas Edison Motose (United States, before 1955).
Class:
Floribunda.  
Bloom:
White, light pink shading.  Apple-blossom-pink.  None to mild, tea fragrance.  30 petals.  Average diameter 2.5".  Medium, full (26-40 petals), borne mostly solitary, in small clusters, cupped-to-flat bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Small, pointed, ovoid buds.  
Habit:
Short, bushy, well-branched.  Small, dark green, leathery foliage.  3 to 5 leaflets.  

Height: 18" to 3' (45 to 90cm).  
Growing:
USDA zone 6b and warmer.  Spring Pruning: Remove old canes and dead or diseased wood and cut back canes that cross. In warmer climates, cut back the remaining canes by about one-third. In colder areas, you'll probably find you'll have to prune a little more than that.  
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 1,460  on  13 Mar 1956   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 502,537  on  19 Apr 1955
Thomas edison Motose, Fairport, N. Y.
...originating as a cross between a seedling of the known variety Garnette (not patented) and a sport of the known variety Summer Snow...the sport thereof used as a parent of the present invention is almost thornless.
Parentage:
seedling of Garnette × sport of Summer Snow (floribunda, Perkins, 1938)
Notes: