The 11th International Fragrant Rose Trial in Echigo Hillside Park, Nagaoka, Japan
Details of the result
The International Fragrant Rose Trials is held every year by inviting applications of new fragrant roses fromrose breeders not only in Japan but all around the world. All the applied nursery plants are planted andbrought up for two years under exactly the same condition in the snowy and cold region of Japan. Then,
examination session is held twice every spring and autumn by the Judging Committee comprising of expertsof roses and fragrances to decide the award winning varieties.
The winning prizes are Gold Award, Silver Award and Bronze Award each for the specified four criteria. Inaddition, as special awards, Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Award is presented tothe highest score winner among the Gold Award Winners, Niigata Prefectural Governor’s Award ispresented to the highest score winner in the fragrance section among the winners of Gold, Silver and BronzeAwards, and Nagaoka City Mayor’s Award is presented to the most popular variety among the general
guests to the park.

Le Printemps

Flowerdecorater Nagashima

Meistersinger

FantasticMoonbow<< Prize Winner Details and Judges’ Comments >>Judging Committee Chairman :Yoshihiro Ueda, Principal of Gifu International Academy of Horticulture
We received 59 entries in the 11th International Fragrant Rose Trials in total, with 18 Hybrid Tea entries(including Grandiflora varieties), 25 Floribunda entries, 15 Shrub entries, and 1 entry in the Miniaturecategory. Floribunda was the category with largest number of entries this year.
This year cloudy and wet weather persisted throughout Autumn and beyond, with limited sunshine.
Despite these weather conditions, we were able to award three awards, a bronze, a silver and a gold, ineach category excluding the Miniature category. This year the Nagaoka City Mayor's Award wasawarded to a Floribunda rose.
Flowerdecorater Nagashima was the Gold Award winner in the Floribunda category and the recipient of
the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Award. An exceptionally well-balanced
variety with fine creamy yellow quartered rosette blooms that complement the bowl-shaped bush. It
received high marks for all characteristics. It was awarded highest points for disease and pest resistanceas well as hardiness.
Le Printemps, Gold Award winner in the Hybrid Tea category and winner of the Niigata Prefectural
Governor's Award, has a bright pink bloom which transitions from a quartered bloom to a rosette bloom
during flowering. It scored the highest points for strength and quality of fragrance.
Gold Award winner in the Shrub category, Meistersinger, has magenta rose-colored rounded cup
blooms and is a vigorous variety.
Moonbow, Silver award winner in the Floribunda category, scored highly for its fragrance. It has abeautiful frilled bloom in a soft silver blue color.
The winner of the Nagaoka City Mayor's Award, Fantastic is a spectacular peony rose with dark yellow
blooms that don’t fade. Its eye-catching blooms likely made it a firm favorite among park visitors.
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<< Prize Winner Details and Judges’ Comments >>Judging Committee Deputy Chairman : Yuji Ichikawa, Perfumer
We received a total of 59 entries from Japan and overseas for the 11th International Fragrant Rose Trials.
With intense heat in early spring followed by heavy rains in summer and throughout Autumn, this year
the climate was particularly harsh on the trial roses. Despite these conditions, there were many roseswith excellent fragrances this year and we were able present three Gold Awards, three Silver Awards,three Bronze Awards, and the Nagaoka City Mayor's Award, to a total of 10 prizewinning varieties.
The highest overall score was awarded to Flowerdecorater Nagashima, Gold Award winner in theFloribunda category and winner of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Award.
It has a modern damask fragrance described as “a damask fragrance with a hint of anise on a refreshingapple and hyacinth green base blended with a honey-like sweetness.”
Le Printemps was the Gold Award winner in the Hybrid Tea category and winner of the Niigata
Prefectural Governor's Award. It scored the highest fragrance points for its classic damask fragrance, “agentle sweet damask fragrance with the distinctive freshness of green apple and hyacinth.”
Meistersinger, Gold Award winner in the shrub category, has a modern damask fragrance described as“a gorgeous damask fragrance with the sweetness of honey and peach perfectly balanced with the fresh
scent of green young leaves.”
Fantastic won the Nagaoka City Mayor's Award which is chosen by popular vote by visitors to the parkand has a tea fragrance. It has “a gentle tea rose scent with distinctive accents of anise and hyacinthgreen.”

Category : HTs, Grandifloras
Gold AwardSpecial prize : Niigata Prefectural Governor’s Award
Entry No.54
Variety : Le Printemps
Breeder : Takunori Kimura - Japan
Flower : A bright pink bloom with slightly white outer petals. Transitions from a quartered bloom to arosette bloom during flowering.
Fragrance type : Damask-Classic
A gentle sweet damask fragrance with the distinctive freshness of green apple and hyacinth.

2Silver Award
Entry No.8
Variety : AM-402-I
Breeder : Alain Meilland - France
Flower : A mulberry colored bloom with beautiful contrast between the front and back of its petals.
An open round bloom form with pointed outer petals.
Fragrance type : Damask-Modern
A damask fragrance with a gorgeous honey-like sweetness blended with the enveloping fruity scentof cherries.

Bronze AwardEntry No.15
Variety : Amorose
Breeder : Tamotsu Tomokage - Japan
Flower : A high-centered bloom that transitions from salmon pink to apricot during flowering.
Fragrance type : Damask-Modern
An elegant and refreshing damask fragrance with distinctive notes of apple and spice.

3Category : FGold Award
Special prize : Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Award
Entry No.35
Variety : Flowerdecorater Nagashima
Breeder : Teizo Yoshiike - Japan
Flower : Fine creamy yellow quartered rosette blooms. An exceptionally well-balanced variety withblooms that complement the bowl-shaped bush.
Fragrance type : Damask-Modern
A damask fragrance with a hint of anise on a refreshing apple and hyacinth green base blended witha honey-like sweetness.

Silver Award
Entry No.57
Variety : Moonbow
Breeder : Hirotomi Yamakawa - Japan
Flower : A modern soft silver blue colored bloom with a visible center and ruffled and frilled petals.
Fragrance type : Damask-Modern
A fresh damask fragrance with fruity notes of apple and peach blended with the herbal scent ofgeranium and a honey-like sweetness.

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Entry No.23
Variety : Sucre
Breeder : Junko Kawamoto - Japan
Flower : Transitions from a rounded cup bloom to an open cup bloom with a pink center. As flowering
progress from bud to full bloom the color contrast changes too.
Fragrance type : Damask-ModernA crisp clean damask fragrance with an elegant tea rose scent on fruity lychee base.

Special prize : Nagaoka City Mayor’s Award
Entry No.37
Variety : Fantastic
Breeder : Satoru Sato - Japan
Flower : A strong peony bloom form with a dark yellow bloom center that doesn’t fade.
Fragrance type : Tea
A gentle tea rose scent with distinctive accents of anise and hyacinth green.

5Category : SGold Award
Entry No.48
Variety : Meistersinger
Breeder : Fuminori Nukariya - Japan
Flower : A magenta colored rose with rounded cup blooms. A feature of this rose is its drooping blooms.
Fragrance type : Damask-Modern
A gorgeous damask fragrance with the sweetness of honey and peach perfectly balanced with thefresh scent of green young leaves.

Silver Award
Entry No.44
Variety : L'hiver
Breeder : Takunori Kimura - Japan
Flower : A white bloom with streaks of light salmon pink and a beautiful yellow center. Has ruffled petals
that open into a rounded flat bloom.
Fragrance type : Tea
An expansive tea fragrance with a rich tropical fruit scent and notes of anise.

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Entry No.39
Variety : RT12339
Breeder : Rosen Tantau – Germany
Flower : A shocking pink rose with rounded cup blooms. The blooms contrast beautifully with the redflower stems.
Fragrance type : Damask-Classic
A well-balanced damask fragrance that blends the refreshing aroma of fresh hyacinth with a creamy
tea rose scent.
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Category : Min

There is no prizewinner

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The 11th International Fragrant Rose Trial in Echigo Hillside Park, Nagaoka, Japan（Echigo-IFRT）◆Guidelines for Applications
1. Eligibility for Applications：Breeders both professional and amateur, in Japan and overseas.
2. Acceptable Rose Varieties:(1)Varieties that have never been on the market within or outside Japan, or varieties that were first made available forsale on or after January 1, 2012.
(2) Categories of Acceptable Rose Varieties:
Part 1: Large-flowered Roses (HTs, Grandifloras)
Part 2: Floribunda Roses (F) (to be the family of "cluster-flowered roses")
Part 3: Shrubs(S)Part 4: Miniature Roses, Mini-floras, Patio Roses, and Polyanthas(Min)
Climbers are excluded from any of the above categories.
(3) The Number of Entries: Limited to a total of four varieties per single breeder.
(4) The Number of Trees per Variety:For each variety, three 2-to-3-year-old bare-root trees, either budded, grafted, or self-rooted.
3. Entry Fee : Free of charge◆The Periods of Judging: June and October, 2017
◆Judging and Commendation:
Chairman:Yoshihiro Ueda（Principal of Gifu International Academy of Horticulture）
Deputy:Yuji Ichikawa（Perfumer）
Naoki Ishikawa（President of Niigata Rose Society）
Naoharu Watanabe（Specially Appointed Prfessor, at Graduate School of Science and Technology Shizuoka University）
Yuki Mikanagi（Curator of Herbarium, Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba）
Kazuko Nomura（Director of Rose Culture Institute）
Yutaka Abe（Honorary President of Saitama Rose Society）
Hideko Ishiguro（Rose researcher / Director of Ishiguro Music Academy）
Ayako Takagi（Gardening Lecturer for Japan Broadcasting Corporation）
Minobu Maekawa（Garden Designer）
Naomi Okubo（Leader, Quality Control Unit at Institute of Vegetable and Floriculture Science, NARO）
Junko Nagano（Takasago International Corporation Fragrance Creation Center Senior Perfumer）
Johji Nishio（WFRS International Judges Committee / President of Machida Rose Society）
Yushi Terazima（Perfumer）
Minoru Tsuchida（Director of Echigo Hillside National Government Park Office）◆Prizes: Gold, Silver, and Bronze Award for each category.
◆Special prizes: Minister of Land, Infrastructure Transport and Tourism Award (Top Award)
Niigata Prefectural Governor’s Award
Nagaoka City Mayor’s Award◇Breeders : 27breeders◇The number of varieties : 59Varieties (HTs-18, F-25, S-15, Min-1)◇Participating nation : Japan, Denmark, France, Germany, Taiwan, U.K., U.S.A.

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