BROWNELL ROSE RESEARCH GARDENS 
LITTLE COMPTON, RHODE ISLAND 
January 15, 1949 
Library, U. S. Department 
of Agriculture 
Washington, 25, D. C. 
Gentlemen: 
There is just one matter that I would like to take up 
with you that is well worth while. 
Did you attend the banquet at the American Nursery- 
mens Convention in Boston? If you did perhaps you met the 
genial Kim Andrews, who flew from Minnesota eight crates of 
his delicious new Raspberry. They came from one of the 
largest and finest Nurseries out in that section. 
He wrote me the other day that the thermometer in 
November ‘4% dropped in 24 hours from 55 above zero to 10 
below. It did over $100,000. damage to Evergreens alone. 
Wouldn't that be some test for unprotected rose bushes? 
That is what Mr. Andrews was doing; testing the 
Brownell Sub-Zeros, together with some of the better var- 
ieties of the other hybrid teas. This test was not for our 
benefit but because he wanted to know for himself. 
Twenty seven of ours and twenty one others. 
In the Spring following this sudden temperature change 
and after one of their very severe winters, at his Nursery 
in Faribault he writes, out of 21 regular hybrid teas, 
put four were alive, these were badly damaged and bloomed 
put little; then he states- 
"Every plant of the Sub-Zero Roses came through 100%". 
His only comment was - "You can see why we are so crazy 
about the new Sub-Zero Roses and why we are going all out for 
them", 
If you write him for further particulars be sure and 
order some of those new Raspberries, they really are de- 
licious; he can sell you ten or a million. 
Sincerely, 
BROWNELL ROSES 

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