Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1898 — American Beauty Roses. [ARTICLE]

American Beauty Roses.

The discoverer of the American beauty rose was a man named Field, who had charge of the white house conservatories In the time of President Grant. One day Field went in the greenhouse attached to the residence of Bancroft, the historian, where he saw a rose of unusual beauty and 6ize, which the man in charge said had sprung from a Oermun cutting. Field bought the bush for five dollars, and a few years later sold all the cuttings and plants from the bush for $5,000 and bought real estate near Washington that ten years ago was Bold for $50,000, and is now probably worth a good deal more than then.