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I hope I am wrong but from the pictures it appears that this is a grafted rose and if so the cuttings or in this case the little shoots will not be true. I could be wrong as 40 years is a long time for a grafted rose to live but those shoots are not coming from the trunk of the bush but are coming from the larger portion of the trunk where a graft would be.