This may be unanswerable, but I’m hoping someone knows (if it exists).
Gage Park in Topeka, Kansas has the Reinisch Rose Garden, and part of the rose garden is the AARS test beds. I was going through the test beds and saw a rose that I would really like to have. It was labled 05R601 Planted 2004. It was a pretty large bush (over 6 feet), and had pink flowers with a very nice strong smell.
Does anyone know if this rose has been brought to market, and who might have done it?
Thanks,
GES
Honestly, the best approach for anything of this nature is to just pick up the phone and call Reinisch Rose Garden and ask for the person that most best about that rose. Most of the people that work there will really like roses and answering questions about them. In all likelihood, they have had the same inquiry before. Virtually all gardens, museums, historical societies and the like will fall over backwards for you if you express a genuine interest and are mildly assertive yet friendly. I sent an e-mail to a historical society about my circa 1760 house and someone spent a week researching it sending me all kinds of info. That is what they do.
The people who would know for sure are the ones at the Reinisch garden. Give them a call at 785-272-5900.
The others, well, them you have to watch out for, y’know?
Well of course. A rose by any other name smells just as sweet…
(I’ve been waiting to use that line in proper context forever)
Quoting a forgotten comedian: even if they were called pus blurters?
Yess, I’m just pissed because you beat me to it. 
Carry on…
Rose breeders don’t want to waste a cool name until they’re sure the rose is going to be worth putting on the market. If it still has a number, it may not be available yet.
I would think so, but it has been almost three years. I suspect that would be the reason that the rose garden staff wouldn’t know anything about it. If it was in the rose garden proper, I think they would.
I figured it would be a shot in the dark, I thought maybe somebody would know some of the details of the process.
Thanks,
GES
Have you tried the Jackson and Perkins website? One of the search functions will let you browse by color.
Very few test roses make it to production. My mother is a J & P tester for Southeast Zone 6 and she has 30 or more hybrid tea roses that are nameless, but she is too soft-hearted to tear them out and replace them with patented types. She calls them her “orphans”.
It seems to have a indexed number that indicts tracable data somewhere. They should stil be able to tell you.