This new hybrid tea rose cultivar originated as a seedling resulting from a crossing of an unnamed seed parent with an unnamed pollen parent. The seed parent was derived as follows: (Sterling Silver.times.Intermezzo).times.(Sterling Silver.times.Simone). Sterling Silver is covered by U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,433, Intermezzo by U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,430, and Simone by U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,847. The pollen parent was derived as followed: (Music Maker).times.(Mainzer Fastnacht.times.Tom Brown). The new variety was discovered by me in 1975, at Iowa State University Horticulture Greenhouses, Ames, Iowa, in the course of breeding efforts to produce everblooming strains of hybrid tea roses over a wide range of flower colors and a capability of withstanding winter cold. Such breeding efforts began in about 1949 and were carried out by me at the University in Ames, Iowa.
Following its discovery, this new plant has been asexually reproduced under my direction at Ames, Iowa and Tyler, Tex. by cuttings and by bud-grafting. Such propagation through successive generations has shown that the distinctive characteristics of the new variety hold true from generation to generation and appear to be firmly fixed.