Miniature and Mini-Flora Roses
Award of Excellence Winners (AOE)
by Luis Desamero
Citing the increasing popularity of miniature roses and the integral part these roses were beginning to play in national, regional and local rose shows, in 1973, the American Rose Society Board of Directors resolved to undertake an active, impartial testing, scoring and rating program exclusively for miniature roses.
Each entry was to be tested for a two-year period, with no more than five awards given in any year and no award given if no entry warranted recognition. Thus the ARS Award of Excellence for Miniature Roses was born. The purposes of the AOE evaluation program are parallel to those of the All-America Roses Selections:
These are the winners for each year the Award has been offered: |
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