Sorry, Patricia; I didn't realize that phrase wasn't common usage. What I mean is this: you plant a grafted rose with the graft just ever-so-slightly below soil level.Often, in time, if the scion is vigorous enough, roots will begin to sprout from the base of the canes of the scion,from the grafting point, as it were. In time the rootstock can die off and there it is-an own-root rose! My Rhonda was planted out in my garden,but in a poor place with inadequate soil preparation. I dug it up; a stunted little plant, with a small root mass that easily fit into a pretty small pot. It's been living in my pot ghetto. Well, last year or the one before, I pulled it out to see what it was doing, since it wasn't really growing, but nor did it look pathetic. And there they were: little roots sprouting from the graft. So now Rhonda is still in a pot,to be coddled along until those own-roots are big enough to make the upper part of the plant start to grow. But if the colour winds up being one I don't care for, I'd prefer to give it away...