- Hybrid Tea Rose - a large-flowered rose.
- Standard Rose - this is the largest of the cut roses with stem lengths usually between 70-100 centimeters. A majority of the roses grown in the United States are the standard size.
Sweetheart Rose - a small cut rose that results when a stem on a cluster-flowered plant is disbudded. All of the side buds are removed, allowing the plant the form into a single flower. Sweetheart roses usually measure 
between 30-50 centimeters. - Spray Rose - this rose has three to eight blooms on a single stem, which result when the center bud is removed from a cluster-flowered plant.
- Intermediate Rose - this type of rose falls in-between the standard hybrid tea and sweetheart size. Its stem measures between 40 to 70 centimeters.
Floribunda Rose - a class of garden rose that has clusters of flowers on a single stem. Both Sweetheart and Spray roses were developed from Floribundas.
ROSES
Roses are available year-round from domestic growers and imports from Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Holland. Nealy 90% of all roses imported into the United States are grown in Colombia and Ecuador, and from those two countries alone, rose imports total more than one and a half times the number of roses grown in the United States.
ROSE FACTS:
There are quite a few varieties of roses and listed below are the most common terms:
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