Word: thornless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christmas as the one he now wishes his followers, and only reminds them that if they follow the parting advice of one of the Vagabond's favorite professors in his last lecture to "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may", it is well worth the extra effort to pick a thornless variety...
...dropped the nursery business. He performed millions of experiments in plant-breeding, producing - besides thousands of poor variations, fruitless hybrids, unfixed types and failures - about 150 "creations", of which the most celebrated are the Shasta daisy, thornless cactus (cattle-fodder), mammoth blackberry, mammoth asparagus, everbearing mammoth artichoke and rhubarb, and the Burbank plum. Perhaps his quaintest anomaly was a plant which grew potatoes below ground, tomatoes above. This and similar freaks he did not submit for commercial growth. They soon revert to type...
...thornless, yellow rose, that as it opens deepens to a " rich orange color," was exhibited for the first time at a flower show in Tarrytown, N. Y. With official consent it bears the name " Mrs. Calvin Coolidge...