"To Touch a Rainbow"
"To create a new rose is to reach out and touch a rainbow.
It is the attempt to put together in intricate and complex
patterns certain genetic building blocks, to assemble and
reassemble these blocks into new combinations and
arrangements. It is no accident that certain new and,
hopefully, improved varieties have come about.
There are many and varied determiners which dictate
what the finished product will be like. Some gardeners
like a rose red, others prefer them pink or yellow or white.
Some prefer their roses large, others tiny and others want
their roses in varying sizes between the extremes. Plants
may be tall, short, in between-climbers, bushes; upright,
spreading. It is obvious that all these and many other qualities
cannot all be put together in a single variety. Thus, we have
today the large and often bewildering array of rose varieties.

The rose I eventually brought into this world
The Marcella Moonlight...the fugitive heart
can only be defined as
my heart reaching out to touch that rainbow.