| Rosa 'Harison's Yellow' | |
|---|---|
| Details | |
| Hybrid parentage | Rosa hybrid |
| Cultivar | 'Harison's Yellow' |
| Origin | Selected by George Folliott Harison, United States, c.1824.[1] |
Harison's Yellow, also known as the Oregon Trail Rose and the Yellow Rose of Texas, is a hybrid rose cultivar which originated as a chance hybrid seedling of Rosa foetida. The cultivar first bloomed at the suburban villa of George F. Harison, attorney, between 8th and 9th Avenues on 32nd Street, north of New York City. The site of Harison's villa is now just south of the present General Post Office. The nurseryman William Prince of Long Island took cuttings and marketed the rose in 1830. Harison's Yellow is naturalized at abandoned house sites through the west and is found as a feral rose along the Oregon Trail. The Yellow Rose is the official flower of both Delta Xi Phi Sorority, Inc. and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
Harison's Yellow was planted by the Heritage Rose Foundation in the Spring of 2009 near the grave of George Folliott Harison, who in the 1830s created this rose in his Manhattan garden. The planting is now a part of the Heritage Rose District of NYC.