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faraco@cmgm.stanford.edu wrote:
>need fertile rose hips.... One supposed trick is to stay away from 
>the "double" blossoms, which are supposedly tetraploid and frequently
>sterile (at least generally true of other flowers- ever wonder why
>the doubles are so long lasting in a vase or on the bush???? doesn't 
>know it's been pollinated and so doesn't recieve the signal to start
>with the seed production. sterile flowers are long lasting and pretty.)

Very interesting information altogether but the quote most of all.
 
I have just sowed some seeds from Pauls Scarlet Climber, a climber with
extremely longlasting semidouble flowers (lasting so long I throw them 
out before their time because I get bored with them and because they are
absolutely scentless). Since the seeds are there it means the rose is
not sterile but could there still be something wrong with the seeds?
This is my first attempt at growing roses from seeds and I have no idea 
what healthy seed is supposed to look like.

Marianne Ahrne
Uppsala, Sweden