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THE ROSE WORLD 



Originated in France by Francis Meilland 



LAUNCHED IN AMERICA BY THE CONARD-PVLE CO., WEST GROVE, PA. 



Winner of the Gold Medal of the National Horticultural Society of France, the "Most Beautiful Rose of France" 

 award, and the Royal Horticultural Society award in England; Gold Medal Certificate of the International Rose Test 

 Garden in Portland, Oregon; All-America Rose Selections award, and has been taking a majority of the "Queen of 

 the Show" awards at Rose shows all over the country this year, as it has before. 



From American Rose Society members for the last three years, Peace has received the successive ratings of 9.5, 

 9.4 and 9.6 out of 10. 



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Francis Meilland of France, the originator of the Peace Rose, comes of a family that have been Rose growers 

 and Rose breeders for generations. And for generations the women who have married into that family have 

 been from other great Rose-growing families of France, as is his own wife. He himself grew up in the work, as 

 his son is doing now (see photo below). Francis Meilland's first important creation was the Gold Medal winner. 

 Golden State, the official Rose of the World's Fair in San Francisco in 1939. Since then he has become world 

 famous for remarkable new Roses such as Boudoir, Fantastique, Fred Edmunds, Good News and Peace. 



The first plants of Peace arrived here shortly before we 

 entered the war. Its superiority was immediately recognized 

 and it w^as entered in the All-America trials as promptly as 

 possible. The war was at its frenzied height when the name of 

 Peace was decided on for it, and a date for its christening was 

 set. When that day arrived the name took on fresh hope, for 

 the time coincided with the fall of Berlin. For the V-E Day 

 celebration, blooms were presented to the head delegates of 

 the 49 countries gathered to organize the United Nations. 



The fresh beauty of this Rose was held to be a fitting symbol 

 of the universal hope for PEACE. 



This is a Rose that can best be appreciated and enjoyed 

 where you can watch its buds unfold — see with your own eyes 

 how its color changes as it slowly, slowly unfolds. Its tints of 



yellow, pale gold, cream and 



ivory show a varying blush of 



pink on the lightly rulllcd [Dttal 



edges, the clear colors blended 



to rare beauty. Peace plants 



are as outstanding as the 



blooms with great, tall, strong 



stems and handsome, rich 



green foliage. To see these 



Roses in your own garden on a 



Above: Francis Meilland taking ^H /W^^^V^^^^^^^^H quiet summer evening, is to 



notes of a new Rose cross. The ^^ ,.^ A^W^^^^m ^^^^^^^V^^^^^^H i i. ^ j ^i 



cones cap the treated flowers to ^jf H. ^m^^^ ^^^^V H^HI "°^^' ^^^^ DCauty and the 



prevent other unwanted fertiliza- ' ^ ^9^^H ^^^^^^m ^V^^^Bj sense ot peace. 



Below: Francis' father, A. Meil- ^^ ^^ ^^^^B M ^Wi $2 ea.; 3 for $5. 



land, cutting budwood of new 

 varieties. 



Above: Louisette Meilland, Francis* 

 wife, at her favorite work — hy- 

 oridizing. 



At right: Alain Meilland, at the 

 age of six, preparing pollen and 

 learning about Rose hybridizing 

 "from the ground up," as his 

 father did before him. 



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