‘Pride of Portsmouth’ 
‘Pride of Rochester’ 
‘Prolific’ 
‘Prostrata’ 
‘Pueblo’ 
(F. deVos. Proceedings, Plant Propagators Society, p. 37. 1958) : Fruit red, 
extremely large clusters; zone 7; named by John Coleman, Portsmouth, 
Virginia. 
= ‘Pride of Rochester’ 
Red 45D, RHS 
(F. deVos. The Garden Journal 10(6):2 16-2 17. 1960, without description). 
Error in picture caption. 
= ‘Pride of Portsmouth’ 
(Rocknoll Nursery, Morrow, Ohio. Catalog, p. 44. Spring 1959) : Similar to 
P. coccinea ‘Lalandei’; extremely heavily fruited; developed at Rocknoll 
Nursery. Letter January 21, 1965, Belden C. Saur, Rocknoll Nursery : Low 
growing; prolific fruited clone; usually hardy and disease resistant. Prob- 
ably no longer in cultivation. 
(Swiss Floral Co., Portland, Oregon. Catalog, p. 7. 1939, as P. yunnanense 
‘Prostrata’) : Spreading growth habit; fruit scarlet, late ripening. Tuttle 
Bros. Nurseries, Pasadena, California. Catalog, p. 15. 1951, as P. crenato- 
serrata ‘Prostrate’ : Low, spreading; fruit small, orange red; hardy. 
P. fortuneana 
(D.R. Egolf. HortScience 22:510-511. 1987b, as P. x ‘Pueblo’) : Densely 
branched, compact growth habit; 2.1 m high and 3.6 m wide; young 
branches grey brown becoming dark brown grey; spines on leafy shoots, 
7-16 mm long; leaves alternate, semi-glossy, elliptic to obovate, dark green 
(Yellow Green 147A, RHS) above and Yellow Green 147B beneath, 3-7 cm 
long, 9-20 mm wide; inflorescence corymb borne on spurs and short 
shoots all along the branches, 3.5—-4.5 cm in diameter, 20-45 cream white 
florets, each 8-12 mm in diameter; fruit depressed, globose, Orange Red 
33A, 9-12 mm in diameter, 7-9 mm long, borne in 4- to 6-cm-diameter 
clusters of 15-40, remains firm until early winter; resistant to fire blight 
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