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Old 16-05-2003, 01:56 PM
lms
 
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Default White blooms on The Fairy (Cl)

In article ,
says...

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/ddweil2/FairyWhite.jpg
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/ddweil2/FairyWhite1.jpg

And no, they aren't just bleached out blooms...


How neat! A white sport on The Fairy rose. I looked around to see if
sporting is reported or known for the Fairy rose, and found this essay
on the phenomenon by Paul Barden that I thought you might find interesting:

http://www.rdrop.com/~paul/main_october2002.html

Paul actually gives the name of a white sport of The Fairy rose as White
Lawrence Rose [Lawrenceana alba]. Are you going to propagate this
particular sport of The Fairy? It might be nice ... that one is very
pretty, and it will be nice to see if it turns out to be a climbing
white sport ... actually, one of those seems like ablushing pink and
the other seems to be white, at least on my monitor.


I'd say about 9999 times outa ten thousand these 'sports' are just blooms
that for whatever reason come out relatively colorless--shaded under a leaf,
atmospheric conditions, the whim of Pluto, whatever. As you say, one of
them is a blushin. I grow The Fairy and it, as well as Raz Ice, Straw Ice,
Double Delight, Peace, and Kristin, to name a few, all yearly show a bloom or a
few which are practically colorless. I wouldn't really call them white, just
totally washed.
But you could be lucky. I grow a white sport of Jeanne LaJoie--Vigilance--
and I much prefer it over its clonema. Except for the blum shape it shows
little resemblance to the original, grows in a 2-3' tall by 5' wide mound.
Stays white, water doesn't bother it.

I've seen two cases of definite sports here on the plantation, one was
the easiest of all, Rose foetida bicolor, which is widely known to revert
back to Rosa foetida--several canes over the years bloomed completely
yellow from year to year. The other one was from the Hybrid Tea Madras,
which is a high-centered queenbitch and quite gojus--if you've ever seen
Madras, you know that it looks nothing like a stephen f. austin rose, an
'english rose', which this one looked like. I rather think that when you
see a real sport, you'll know it.
But I don't much buy the blush pink to white business.

m