Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great family resource: Kennedys. Pitching into his campaign, which included a whistle-stopping run across the state last week aboard his special "Wabash Cannonball Express," were Wife Ethel, Brother Teddy, Sons David and Michael, Daughter Courtney, Sisters Pat Lawford, Jean Smith and Eunice Shriver, Sister-in-Law Joan, Mother Rose and Dog Freckles...
Peace quickly became a rosy success. During the war, the Meillands had barely managed to hang on to a remnant of their rose-growing business near Lyon. Now, with royalties pouring in from the U.S., they were able to buy a chunk of expensive land on the Riviera and make a fresh start. In less than a decade, the Peace rose was blossoming on some 30 million bushes throughout the world. "How strange to think," wrote Francis Meilland in his diary, "that all these millions of rosebushes sprang from a tiny seed no bigger than the head...
Bush Royalties. Today, at least eight out of ten roses bought in any flower shop in Western Europe are Meilland creations. In the U.S., Meilland roses have earned ten awards at the annual All-America Rose Selections, while no other European firm has ever won twice...
...November 1940, the last American plane that got out of France, just one step ahead of the invading Nazis, carried an innocuous bundle addressed to Robert Pyle of West Grove, Pa. The bundle contained a handful of stems from a rosebush. All through the war, French Rose-Grower Francis Meilland worried about the prize he had sent to his fellow horticulturist. Not until 1945 did he learn that it had arrived safely, Pyle had nurtured it, patented its blossoms and produced hundreds of bushes from Meilland's hardy stock. Then he christened the pale gold roses "Peace," and distributed...
Alain Meilland, 27, a fifth-generation rose-grower who now heads the business, has a personal income of close to $200,000 a year. At least 10% of the millions of rose plants sold in the world every year, he says, are Meilland's. Since the success of Peace, professional rose-growers around the world buy his breeding stock, propagate it by grafting, and pay him royalties of 100 to 500 on each bush they sell. "We are a research laboratory whose sole purpose is to create beautiful roses," says Alain, as he points proudly to the family...