I have grown 'Thomas Affleck' for years and it is truly wonderful. Even here in zone 4, growing in a windy & partially-shaded spot, it pumps out blooms all summer long with NO disease whatsoever...and I don't spray. The roses around it can be afflicted but it never succumbs to any form of disease. It gets tall and bushy and has brilliant-colored blooms which light up the dark corner of my garden. Not of interest to you probably, but to other cold-zoners like myself, it is winter-hardy here. This surprised me; being a 'Texas' Pioneer rose. Apparently it doesn't discriminate! It is an all-round delightful rose. It has great rebloom and bears loads of flowers over my short growing season. It will even have some blooms after the fall frost most years. I used to have 'Republic of Texas' but it didn't last long here. It never got taller than 2 feet and the blooms shattered quickly. I lost it to winter a couple of years ago. It was a pretty little rose but wasn't disease resistant here. New to me this past summer are 'Cole's Settlement' a single with large, pearl-colored blooms and 'Star of the Republic' with very cupped and double blooms of a pretty soft peach. They are too immature yet for me to comment on anything in the way of health, size, or vigor. 'Cole's Settlement' produces nice hips in the fall which is a plus in my book. Celeste THOMAS AFFLECK COLE'S SETTLEMENT... STAR OF THE REPUBLIC...

Can anyone comment on their growth habit, etc? Well-foliated or do they need some naked legs cover from perennials? Sun lovers or appreciate a bit of shade? Not a lot of info on either out there on the interwebs yet.

I was born in CA, and have always lived here ... but my grandfather came from TX -- a small town East of Austin. And we DO have a family cemetery which -- HOORAY! -- had one lovely China Rose. I'm very glad we took cuttings and propagated it, and shared it with some cousins, because the rose is gone, now. It was there for a century or so, but Roundup took care of it real good. It lives on my hillside, though . . .

Today I updated my Rose Spring Dwarf virus information to include the following: " The 2018 National Clean Plant Rose meeting presentations are available at: https://ucanr.edu/sites/ncpnrose/Network_Business/may_2017_agenda/2018_Meetings/ (I cannot see any way to directly link to an individual page in a Power Link presentation.) On the first day of the 2018 meeting, Kevin Org presented the following results of his University's (TAMU) testing of 150 roses in the Florida Southern Collection: Rose Spring Dwarf (RsDAV) was found in 21 of the 150 plants tested. Blackberry chlorotic ringspot virus (BcRV) was found in one plant, Prunus necrotic ringspot virus (PNRSV) was found in 6 plants, and Rose yellow vein virus (RYVV) was found in six plants. Four plants had mixed viruses - two had RsDAV and RYVV (Paul Neyron and Pulich Children) and two had PNRSV and RsDAV (B. rugosa ruba and Red Pinocchio)."