This hybrid tea, with its perfumed yellow blooms with pink edges, is exceptionally difficult to find in commerce these days. It's a pity because the rose is highly resistant to pests and disease in my garden and is a vigorous grower.

Its namesake, Suzanne Massu, headed an ambulance unit as a major in the Free French forces in WWII. Kordes named two hybrid teas for her, but it inexplicably misspelled her name each time. She was always Suzanne, not Susan.

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