(2 Dec 2005)  
 
[Thread "Whats in the Fridge" by SteveJ]
Irenes Delight is Autumn Sunset x William Baffin. Irenes Delight is a very pretty, hardy, disease resitance and once blooming rose bread by Mike Lowe. I

(1977)  Page(s) Vol. 8, no. 2, p. 15.  
 
HYBRIDISING WITH SPECIES 
By Franc Holliger
Of R. pisocarpa, I can quote from the book "The Complete Rosarian" by Norman Young, in which he says of a cross between R. pisocarpa (which is a graceful, upright shrub seven or eight feet high) and a dwarf polyantha, that it showed such moderate growth that he nearly threw it away; by the end of the first year it was still no more than two inches high, a matchstick with four leaves. But in the following year it went off with a bang, putting out four or five separate canes which reached a length of eighteen inches or two feet. Eventually it developed into a large bush, three feet high and nearly six across. He says that R. pisocarpa repeats sparingly but quite reliably. In my region it is a "ditch-dweller" and most attractive with a background of white fencing, this being "equestrian" country. (Diploid)