BROWNELL ROSE RESEARCH GARDENS 
LITTLE COMPTON, RHODE ISLAND 
July 6, 1951 
Library 
U. S. Dept. of Agriculture 
Washington 25, D. Ce 
Gentlemen: 
Do you know why so many gardeners come to our 
door to exclaim - "Your roses are the most wonderful 
we have ever seen!" 
Thousands of visitors see in our two acre 
garden dozens of beds fifteen to twenty years old 
without replacements, four or more feet tall, solidly 
topped with roses, large and beautiful as any. 
Is it any wonder that through forty years of 
careful selection and scientific hybridizing they have 
come to grow sturdily like Species things in Nature. 
We bud for test and cultivate the first year, 
a few selected from 10,000 hybridized seedlings each 
year - then leave them unattended to fight grass, weeds 
and wild shrubs; they hold their own; after three & 
Se years throughout the summer you can pick from them 
armsfull of beautiful everblooming Hybrid Teas. Can 
you do this with your tender hybrid teas? 
There was @ wayside nursery between two large 
New England cities doing a tremendous business; little 
by little they lost it. Do you suppose it was through 
lack of customer satisfaction? 
A very large distributor from Iowa recently 
reports - nearly all Brownell Roses came through a very 
bad winter while 40 to 75% of the others failed. Equally 
pleasing reports from hot areas. 
We have what your customers have long wanted. 
Best to order your Brownell Roses now. Same price. We 
never have enough. 
Sincerely, 
Brownell Roses 
Dd 
Walter D. Brownell 
Director 
