Re: Clones (was RE: Romantica Roses)

**"gt mccoy" gtmccoy@harborside.com>**

Don,

You mentioned you're very selective in the roses you grow.  Would you share
your rose list with us?  I'm always interested in what other gardeners
choose to grow out of the vast array of roses available--partly because I
have limited space too.

Gloria from Oregon
-----Original Message-----
From: Don Corleone <godfatha@hotmail.com>
To: rose-list@mallorn.com <rose-list@mallorn.com>
Date: Thursday, March 23, 2000 12:18 PM
Subject: [Rose-list] Clones (was RE: Romantica Roses)

>>From: rose-list-admin@mallorn.com
>>From: "Saxton, Susan" <SSaxton@schwabe.com>
>>Subject: RE: [Rose-list] Re: Romantica Roses
>
>
>First, let me introduce myself to the list since this is my first post here
>(I think).  We have a small city garden with minimal prime areas for roses,
>so we are very selective in what we grow.
>
>Second, most roses today ARE clones (in the strict sense).  Certainly, all
>the modern NAMED VARIETIES are clones.  Whether they are produced from
>cuttings or budding, they are the genetic equivalents of each other.
>
>There are a couple of very minor exceptions:  (1) Rarely, a variety will
>MUTATE (rose growers call this a "sport") and produce a different variety.
>(2) very, very old varieties which have been cloned for many generations
can
>show a "genetic drift" and actually produce slightly different strains of
>the same variety.  I know this has happened with some ancient cultivated
>plants like figs and grapes.  I don't know if our rose varieties have been
>around long enough for that.
>
>And, of course, there are those roses called wild roses or species roses
>(and their varieties) which grow from seeds and are not clones.
>
>BTW, can we use HTML in this list or do we have to use just text? I know
>images are forbidden, but what about tags?
>
>
>
>Don from North Jersey
>
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