Reprinted from THE FLORISTS EXCHANGE AND HORTICULTURAL TRADE WORLD 
Issue of July 3, 1954 
Brownell Acclaimed 
Mr. and Mrs. Walter D. Brownell at work in the hybridizing fields 
LITTLE Compton, R. I.—Walter D. 
Brownell of the Brownell Rose Research 
Gardens here, recently received the Jane 
Righter Rose Medal award of the Garden 
Club of America, under the following 
citation: 
“The War of the Roses was fought in 
England centuries ago. A far more recent 
victory has been won almost single- 
handed in this country by Walter Brown- 
ell who vanquished that enemy of the 
Rose, Blackspot. 
“This remarkable man retired from the 
practice of the law to devote his life to 
the perfection of the most splendid of 
flowers, the Rose. 
“He became a student of genetics and 
planned his hybridizing program, using 
scientific principles with a definite ob- 
jective. His efforts have been along origi- 
nal lines with the result that he has giv- 
en America a new race of Roses of excep- 
tional value. Thousands who never before 
could grow them are now successful since 
the development of the Sub Zero Rose. 
His name is acclaimed from Saskatche- 
wan to Texas, from the Atlantic to the 
Pacific. Not satisfied with these accom- 
plishments he has added greater frag- 
rance to the Hybrid Teas. 
“Mr. Brownell richly deserves recogni- 
tion also for the recent everblooming pil- 
lars and creepers which have the beauty 
and size of Hybrid Teas. 
“So we quote Marcus Aurelius—‘Doth 
perfect beauty stand in need of praise at 
all? Nay;no more than law, no more 
than truth, no more than loving kind- 
ness, nor than modesty.’ But to Walter 
D. Brownell who enables us to show that 
perfect beauty The Garden Club of 
America is happy to present the Jane 
Righter Rose Medal, grateful that ‘The 
Rose is Heaven’s utterance of a kiss.’ ” 
Added 
Mr. and Mrs. Brownell, pictured above 
in a section of their Rose test garden, 
were honored late last year by a “Citation 
from the New York Society of Arts and 
Sciences, Brooklyn Botanic Gardens di- 
vision.” 
“THE BROWNELLS (Mr. and Mrs. 
Walter D.) of Little Compton, Rhode 
Island— 
“Rose hybridizers for over 50 years. 
“From the wild Rose (Rosa Wichurai- 
ana) of the Orient, you have literally 
picked out the inherited characteristics 
of subzero hardiness and resistance to 
disease, and through long term breeding 
with other desirable Roses—have given 
to horticulture a considerable number of 
significant new forms. 
“And your keen eyes discovered the 
natural mutation that combined tallness 
and everbloom—and your breeding from 
this parentage is producing for the first 
time Roses that are tall and everbloom- 
ing. 
“For the millions of new Roses you 
have hybridized and grown and the 56 va- 
rieties you have selected from these as 
worthy of your standards for introduction 
to the world of horticulture, the Brook- 
lyn Botanic Garden awards you its Medal 
for Distinguished Service.” 
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