Dear Diane: Yes sports have been found, but the basic clone is still the same. Cheers, John E. Bryan Diane Whitehead wrote: > > > Re clones, surely our apple clones, Cox's > >Orange Pippin, as an example, is still the same today as many years ago? > >The same with all other fruit clones that have been around, some for > >well over 100 years. Why have they not changed? > > If you look at a fruit tree catalogue, you will see that there are > changes. A bud may sport, is propagated, and then you end up with > something like "Scarlet Cox". I don't think Cox has done this, but > lots of other apples have. > > Diane Whitehead > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php