Well, it certainly makes sense that many roses do better budded. After all the root stocks must be chosen for their superior ability to grow great roots (and accept grafts) talents not shared by all.
I have very few budded roses as I now grow mostly old roses that do fine on their own roots. However I used to have quite a lot of budded roses and none of them survived more than about ten years - probably due to the fact that modern roses expect more care than I provide, but I tended to blame their demise on the fact that they were budded. A talk I attended by the former president of the Houston Rose Society mentioned that budded roses in Houston had a half life of about six years; she didn't say why, so I continue to wonder...
