Re: Clones

**"rosenlund" rosenlund@transport.com>**

Most interesting stuff here, Mel and Don.  Most of it over my head, but I
love hearing about it.  Keep it coming!  I'll learn something.

Mel wrote:
>A special case of a sport is a "reversion".  This occurs when a part of a
sport
>shows the characteristics of the variety it sported from.  This has allowed
>rescue of otherwise extinct varieties!

Am I following you right, here?  Are you saying that a sport may "revert
back" or sport back to the orginial variety?

Mel wrote:
>There are differences of opinion among experts as to whether "genetic
drift"
>occurs in roses.  Dr. Malcolm Manners believes that "varietal deteriation"
>results from virus and that once "indexed" the original characteristics
will
>return.  I toss coins on this subject while awaiting the results of genetic
>research which, for roses, is in the embrionic state.

Could this work say by... digging up and replanting a rose?  My
grandmother's rose ('Apothecary Rose') she was told that if it didn't
produce "calio" as she called it, that she and her father would dig up the
rose and simply replant it in it's same spot.  Most of the time this was in
Central Oregon.  She swears that's how it would "calio" which I'm thinking
is then 'Rosa Mundi"... Could this be so?

                ~Carleen~
Keeper of Sheep and Old Roses

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