BROWNELL ROSE RESEARCH GARDENS 
LITTLE COMPTON, RHODE ISLAND 
October 30, 1950 
Library U. S.~ Dept. of Agriculture 
Washington 25 
District of Columbia 
Gentlemen: 
While we have never had any intention of 
misleading you it has come to our notice today 
that in writing you we may have laid so much stress 
on the survival through cold winters that we have 
neglected to give you information on the hot 
weather performance of the Sub Zero Hybrid Teas. 
A large number of leading Rose distributors 
have told us that in the far South their per- 
formance is outstanding. 
But no one we believe could give a better 
idea of how they do in hot sunny weather or a 
better cross section of numerous reports from the 
South than Mr. P. M. Long, of their large Lumber 
Company in Cordova, Alabama, who writes reporting 
on several of our Hybrid Teas. 
"They are a revelation - as vigorous, hardy 
and fragrant as any Hybrid Perpetuals and as free 
blooming as any Hybrid Tea, with no spray; in beds 
with other Hybrid Teas, the others died, while 
yours grew 4 to 5 feet and bloomed all through the 
hot dry summer and today Oct. 10, 1950 are still 
covered with fine blooms." 
Gardeners are becoming more and more con- 
cerned about plant performance. 
If you are selling Brownells you already know 
what it does to your Rose prestige. 
We have some new ones that are beauties. Per- 
haps your order is already in. If not, now is the 
time. 
Sincerely, 
capa yor, 
(hyp. ay Wy 
Walter D. (eres ae 
