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[david friedman]

In a message dated 6/6/00 9:00:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
ahrenshav at yahoo.com writes:

<< 
 They probably were exposed to the fungus either at the
 growers or the nursery where you bought them.  I don't
 know of any homeopathic remedies.  The only way I have
 gotten rid of black spot is a fungicide.
  >>
    As such things go, I believe copper something-or-other (It's late, and I 
haven't read this in several years! ;-) ) is supposed to be reasonably 
effective and benign. However, some experiments in the last few years have 
shown that a regular spray with baking soda in water worked very well on a 
variety of fungus problems. I *think* the ratio was something close to one 
tblsp of soda in a gallon of water....... Unfortunately, I haven't been able 
to try it myself, since my roses are at my folk's house, and I can't get 
there regularly enough to make spraying them with anything worth bothering 
with. The period roses do all right, anyway, despite the powdery mildew that 
the damask is prone to. And the others aren't important enough to me to worry 
much about.......... ;-)

                Ldy Diana, enjoying frozen rose custard from the last of my 
damask's for the year.........