I love this rose but I am hesitating to keep it in my garden. It's the only rose that gets that much blackspots from the 12 varieties I grow.

The patent states: "The objective of the invention was realized by crossing New Dawn with an unnamed and unpatented yellow hybrid tea variety, and then crossing the resulting climbing seedling with an unnamed and unpatented orange-red polyantha, this latter cross resulting in the present variety which produces flowers of a rich coral color and which have a flower form substantially like that of New Dawn. although distinguished therefrom by being somewhat more double, with stiffer petals. "

"Seed parent-Climbing seedling of "New Dawn and an unnamed yellow hybrid tea

variety. Pollen parent-An unnamed orange-red polyantha. "

So, this would be [(New Dawn x Yellow HT) x Orange-Red Polyantha]

Since this was during an era where polyantha was interchangeable with floribunda, it could be an orange-red polyantha, which seems like since J/P was more into floribundas then, and because Coral Dawn seems to lack polyantha traits.

Coral Dawn is a very photogenic rose :)

I have had my two Coral Dawns for many years now. They are planted one on each side of my entrance door. I never bought these in a nursery. It happened like this: A neighbour had planted two Coral Dawns to help cover a brick wall serving as a fence. It didn`t work out the way she had planned. Coral Dawn, being a climber, has an upright growth and dislikes any attempt to be "pushed around". I suggested New Dawn instead. Which she was very happy about. So the question was: What to do with the two Coral Dawns. We swapped. I didn`t have a New Dawn to give her, but I offered her one of my Louise Odiers, which she made to cover half a wall of her house. I just cut back the plants to half size and put them down. They seemed to like it though, and they flowered pretty well, but didn`t grow taller - till the next year. Then came 1994, when we had bright sunny weather throughout the main flush season in July. Enlarged photos of the roses from that summer are still decorating my livingroom wall. What I regret is that as they are paper photos they are impossible to upload in this website. Inspite of all this, I haven`t really appreciated them, mainly because they are hopelessly susceptible to blackspot, and the flowers dislike rain. All the same, I think time has now come for me finally after all these years, to acknowledge them for the good and faithful plants they have been, and take them into my group of favourites. One of them has twice been lifted off the wall by storms. Once it lay spread across the road, and was saved by my neighbour from being damaged by passing cars. The second time we had a storm during Witsun in May. Buds had begun to form, and everything looked nice. Saturday when the storm was raging, I went out to have a look. The same rose was broken in the middle. I didn`t want to see anymore.. But they have always pulled through. And grown tall and wide, only stopped by the eaves of the roof. Yes I favour them. Some say that the colour coral is missing, the flowers being just pink. Well, mine have a touch of coral.