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• Botaniste Abrial

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Deep yellow Hybrid Tea.
Registration name: Lowell Thomas
Exhibition name: Lowell Thomas

Bred by Charles Mallerin (France, before 1942).
Introduced in France by Meilland et Cie in 1942 as 'Botaniste Abrial'.
Introduced in United States by Conard-Pyle (Star Roses) in 1943 as 'Lowell Thomas'.
Introduced in Australia by Hazlewood Bros. Pty. Ltd. in 1949 as 'Botaniste Abrial'.

Hybrid Tea, Pernetiana.  

Deep yellow.  Canary-yellow.  38 petals.  Average diameter 4.25".  Large, full (26-40 petals), borne mostly solitary, high-centered bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Long, pointed buds.  

Bushy, compact, upright.  Glossy, dark green, leathery foliage.  

USDA zone 6b and warmer.  

United States - Patent No: PP 595  on  13 Jul 1943   VIEW USPTO PATENT

Dedicated to Claude Abrial (1872 - May 1945), botanist, member of the Société Layonnaise d'Horticulture since 1904, conservaror of the botanical collections at the Faculty of Medicine in Lyon