Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1910 — Blue Rose Not Pretty. [ARTICLE]

Blue Rose Not Pretty.

London. —The green carnation has now been rivaled by the blue rose. After years of crossing, Alfred Smith of Downley, High Wycombe, has produced a distinct blue rose which Is exciting keen interest among his fellow horticulturists. The rose is light blue, shading to a deeper hue toward the-base of the petals. Mr. Smith says it is no freak, but can be reproduced now indefinitely and the color be intensified. It is not pretty and Is a poor specimen of a rose.