Re: RE: CULT: Sports--anyone?


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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