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RE: Old roses, disease resistant

Matt,

I have found it difficult to discover names of 
most "found" roses. I thought I was doing
good with the reading of Heirloom's catalog 
for the last 6 years. But this year I wrote for 
5 other catalogs and just one of them listed
over 2000 roses (old and English). And I 
knew sooo few. I don't know nuthing...
Have even collect some nice books, still
know little.

10-20 petals is considered semi-double,
20-40 a double and over 40 is very double.
Things that will be helpful are..
Does it bloom only once a year, all season, 
or rebloom in the fall. 

Sorry I'm not more helpful.
Your rose sounds wounderful. Hardy and 
disease resistant.
I give all my "found" roses a name that is
associated with the place or person in which
it was found.
The Antique Rose Emporium in Texas, can
help you identify your rose with a picture and
a filled out fact sheet. I have not used them
yet. The number is 1-800-441-0002.

Sincerely,
Carleen

> We have a wonderful full pink rose bush, given to us by some friends.
They
> don't know the variety, just that it is wonderful.
>  Very disease resistant upright shrub rose. The canes are now 4 feet
tall,
> after 3 years. The flowers are full, with recurving outer petals. They
fall
> from the bush, unless wet, then they just form a mop and stay on the
bush,
> even after the mop has dried. (Not a bad problem, considering it's
disease
> resistant!)
>  Wonderful 'non heavy' fragrance, it's very fragrant. blooms are 20+
petals
> and blooms are usually 3 to a stalk, rarely as a single long stem. The
> leaves are dark green and glossy.
>  Their rose bush was buried in a forsythia bush, until I transpanted it
for
> them 4 years ago. They gave me a small runner off it, which finally made
it
> into the ground after a year.
> 
> Thanks for any info you can provide,
> Matt Trahan  <matttrahan@ecsu.campus.mci.net>
> USDA zone 8, Sunset zone 31, AHS heat zone 7, northeastern N.C.
> 
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