A new rose variety, ‘Love Letter’ was selected from the progenies of a cross between ‘Red Giant’ and ‘Ensemble’ by rose breeding team of the Gyeonggi-Do Agricultural Research and Extension Services(GARES) in 2011.
‘Love Letter’ was crossed in 2007 and seedlings were produced. After the test of specific characters from 2008 to 2011, it was finally selected and named. ‘Love Letter’ was developed because of distinctive characters such as growth uniformity and high yielding potential. A standard type with large sized flower, It has red(Red Group 46A) color flower. ‘Love Letter’ takes 43 days from pruning to blooming and cut flower productivity was 152 stems/m2 in a year. The stems of cut flower have no thorn and the length was long with 70.5 cm. It has 9.3 cm in flower diameter and 32.4 in petal numbers per flower. Vase life of the this cultivar could be as long as 12 days.

• Young Soon Lee(Gyeonggi-Do Agricultural Research and Extension Service) Corresponding Author
• Yun Kyung Jung(Gyeonggi-Do Agricultural Research and Extension Service)
• Gun Hwan Park(Gyeonggi-Do Agricultural Research and Extension Service)
• Myoung Hee Jeon(Gyeonggi-Do Agricultural Research and Extension Service)
• Jae Wook Lim(Gyeonggi-Do Agricultural Research and Extension Service)
• Sung Kee Kim(Gyeonggi-Do Agricultural Research and Extension Service)
• Mi Ok Park(Gyeonggi-Do Agricultural Research and Extension Service)