Breeding of Spray Rose Cultivars, “Sunny Lady” with Yellow Color and Good Fragrance

A new spray rose cultivar “Sunny Lady” was bred from a cross between pink spray cultivar “Sentyna” and yellow spray cultivar “Yellow Mimi” at the National Horticulture Research Institute. The cross was made in 1999 and the “Sunny Lady” was finally selected in 2003 after investigating characteristics for three years from 2001 to 2003. “Sunny Lady”, a yellow spray cultivar, grows vigorously and emit medium fragrance. The major characteristics of this cultivar is 110.6 stems/m²/year in yield, 68.3 cm in length of cut flower, 5 cm in flower diameter and 34.4 in petal number, 9 days in vase life. This cultivar can be propagated by both cutting and grafting. The consumer’s preference of this cultivar is relatively higher than that of control cultivar, “Yellow Dot”.