Re: RE: CULT: Sports--anyone?
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] RE: CULT: Sports--anyone?
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- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 07:52:02 -0700
From: "Jeff and Carolyn Walters" <jcwalters@bridgernet.com>
> From: Mike Lowe <mlowe@worldiris.com>
>
>
> Kaleidoscope (Katkamier 1929) is the most labile bearded cultivar
> that I have ever grown. In my garden, I have lost the dark sectors
> and had the erstwhile Kaleido go to something closely resembling
> Brown's Mutant. I have also received, from at least one respected
> commercial garden, a Kaleidoscope which had obviously done this and
> not been noticed. I have had Kaleidoscope go to something closely
> resembling Honorabile. (but not as dark as the 'usual' Honorabile)
Mike,
Both Honorabile and its kin and the various forms of Rosa foetida have a
prodigious propensity to sport. They also share in common a low level of
fertility. Do you think there is a connection here?
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4/5, Sunset Zone 2)
jcwalters@bridgernet.com
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