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Re: Digest and other things

> Simple question: Are there roses without thorns? What are they? Is it a
> certain species or hybrid?
> Duncan McAlpine

I do not know whether the tendency to have few thorns is confined to a 
species or class of roses.   The famous Zephyrine Drouhin is thornless;
Veilchenblau is nearly thornless, with only the newer growth having any
thorns and the canes very smooth, almost bamboo like.  Both of these are
sprawlers / climbers, so there may be some relationship there.  Z. D. 
is a Bourbon; V. I cannot remember.  They are both spring once-bloomers
(old garden roses).
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