To: Peach who wrote (2740 ) 8/12/2002 10:48:53 PM From: marcos Read Replies (1) | Respond to Turns out it wasn't propagated by our friends, but bought and planted by their renters, they had to move it in the course of construction .... also, it appears to be grafted on another root, so hard to say if it can be multiplied by cuttings .... extremely 'fragrant' though -g- ... i did use 'smelly' for fun, but also it is a term not imparting a value judgment on the particular odour, which is so strong and so sweet that some might be overcome by it ... not 'sickly sweet' to us at all, but maybe to some .... it's a hybrid tea rose called Folklore we found out, varietal Korlore, we have now [what is probably] the box it came in .... the propagation consists of getting sandy soil in place in the shade of a big lilac, dipping the cuttings in root powder and sticking them in, then keeping the area consistently damp ... just started, hard to say how it will go .... there are other methods for doing it inside a house, like the pop-bottle method described somewhere on this most excellent site - ars.org
