Successful development of everblooming moss roses after many years of painstaking work has afforded an excellent example of progress in rose breeding. Yet, the result is not due to slow accumulations of minute differences which might be expected according to evolutionary theory. Evidently nothing new has been added, only changes in the DNA message that allow different expressions of already existing genetic material. Based on findings involving moss roses, new conclusions are possible in explaining the appearance of miniature roses. Miniature roses. or any new roses. are really no more than the “old” gene material in a different combination.