Re: Rot and borer resistant iris: a myth

Nell Lancaster said:

Or that some
breeders haven't taken note of a parallel phenomenon in the rose world: the
enormous success of David Austin's hybrids involving the old garden roses (and
the revival in OGRs themselves), due to a large extent to their greater disease
resistance and lower requirements for spraying.

	My experience with the David Austin roses is a bit different.  I
	grow about 5 or 6 of his varieties.  While they are quite beautiful,
	most of the ones that I grow get powdery mildew as badly (or more
	badly) than some of the more modern roses.  I don't grow his roses
	because of disease resistence, since they (at least the ones I grow)
	don't have resistence to the major disease that roses get here in
	Albuquerque.  I grow them because I like the form and beauty of the
	"old roses."

	Suzanne Sluizer
	New Mexico
	sluizer@cs.unm.edu
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