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CW. Harold's 
PRIVATE BLEND 
The name here is most descriptive as this strain has been the personal project of the 
founder of our firm who is now the oldest active Pansy breeding specialist (80 years), 
with 50 years of horticultural experience, in the U. S. A. Blend denotes the fact that it 
is formula blended from several different stock lines so that we know that its variety 
and novelty is going to be attractive to you. 
It may be that a bit of background history would be of interest. Much of the basic 
lines that go into this blend have their foundation in development work we did more than 
25 years ago. As early as 1929 we were working with breaks that produced many orchid 
and pastel shades. These, however, at first refused to be hardy enough or have sufficient 
vitality to withstand the gardening conditions that the average gardener was sure to give 
them. We felt that by 1940 we had a useable strain and we introduced it as Harrold’s 
Pedigreed Giant Art-Shades - Orchid Selection. At that time it was the equivalent of the 
present day socalled “Hybrids’’ but we were still not satisfied and so during the war years 
it was withdrawn for further development. Just where the name “Hybrids” enter into this 
is difficult to determine for as far as is known this type of stock originated from natural 
breaks in normal Pansy stock and they have been developed by selective, not cross breeding 
with a different variety of the Viola family as would be the case were they truly hybrids 
from a technical standpoint. 
The faults of earlier stock of this type was mostly their inability to stand the elements. 
The sun burned them in hot weather and the wind damaged the flowers. This we have 
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