Special Roses from Jackson & Perkins
Article about Jackson
Perkins Roses by A. Ibu
Cultivation of roses may produce plants with more
astonishing flowers, more beautiful colors of roses. One of the pioneer company producing these
cultivars is Jackson & Perkins, an American company widely known for their
cultivation of roses.
Jackson & Perkins introduced their first succesful rose
cultivar named ‘Dorothy Perkins’, a rose with beautiful pink color. Other rose cultivar produced by this company
include Rosa ‘Gene Boerner’ with more delicate pink color, and Rosa ‘Ivory Fashion’, a pretty
white colored rose.
The company was not trading flower when it was founded in 1872, instead they sell
fruits such as strawberries, raspberries, and grapes. This company named after the founder Charles
H. Perkins and Albert E. Jackson from New York.
They changed their business from fruit production into the wholesale
nursery, selling vines and shrubs.
Shortly after that, Perkins became interested on roses. The company began to hybridize roses and
develop a new special rose, ‘Dorothy Perkins’ rose was named after Charles
granddaughter. The naming started
tradition of using people names for naming roses.
Jackson & Perkins continued the rose hybridization. They made gread strides in one of the rose
classification, floribunda. And they
were keeping their success in rose propagation, creating new varieties.
A red floribunda rose plant ‘World’s Fair’, was named after
Jackson & Perkins introduced them in 1939 New York World’s Fair. It was the star attraction in the fair. ‘World’s Fair’ rose attracted approximately
40,000 people, and shortly after that, the company began the first mail order
rose nursery business.
There are many more of Jackson & Perkins roses that
became the stars of the rose world. Some of them are ‘Katherine T. Marshall’, a
coral-peach rose ‘Fashion’, ‘Vogue’, ‘Ma Perkins’, ‘Jimny Cricket’, ‘White
Bouquet’, ‘Gold Cup’, ‘Ivory Fashion’, ‘Blaze’, ‘Cary Grant’, ‘Dolly Parton’,
‘Kate Smith’, and ‘Arlene Francis’.
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