(Dec 1952)  Page(s) 21.  
 
According to Herbert C. Swim, the closest he came to his breeding objective is the rose Forty-niner -- a cross between 'Charlotte Armstrong' and 'Contrast'. Out of this cross also came 'Applause' (which won Swim his first Gold Medal at Bagatelle) and 'Multnomah' (which Swim considered a "spectacular rose in the Northwest"...

(Dec 1952)  Page(s) 17.  
 
[Swim writes that in 1935, one of the objectives of Armstrong Nurseries' breeding program was] to obtain a bud form that was reasonably slender and long in proportion to its width... 'Charlotte Armstrong' was the result... Named for the wife of the founder of Armstrong Nurseries... 'Charlotte Armstrong, had not only the 'new look' as far as buds and flowers were concerned, but had an extremely vigorous plant with foliage that was strongly disease-resistant...

(Dec 1952)  Page(s) 21.  
 
Chief Seattle is a sister seedling to 'Sutter's Gold' and received its name at the American Rose Society convention in Seattle, Washington, in June 1951.

(Dec 1952)  Page(s) 19.  
 
[In 1938, Dr. Lammerts crossed 'Mrs. Dudley Fulton', a Polyantha, aka the Evergreen Shrub Rose, with the Miniature 'Tom Thumb'.] His idea was to produce miniatures in a wider range of colors than was then available. ['China Doll' was one of the results from this cross, but it wasn't quite what he was looking for.] It seemed logical to assume that a second filial generation from China Doll should give us the re-combination of these miniature rose characteristics with some degree of variation in flower color. [But, again, they failed to meet the objective. However, an interesting dwarf polyantha named 'Pinkie' was the result.]

(Dec 1952)  Page(s) 21.  
 
According to Herbert C. Swim, the closest he came to his breeding objective is the rose Forty-niner -- a cross between 'Charlotte Armstrong' and 'Contrast'. Out of this cross also came 'Applause' (which won Swim his first Gold Medal at Bagatelle) and 'Multnomah' (which Swim considered a "spectacular rose in the Northwest"...)

(Dec 1952)  Page(s) 17.  
 
Mirandy ('Charlotte Armstrong' x 'Night')... Like its parent, Charlotte Armstrong, Mirandy has a great deal of vigor. In addition, it has red color and an extraordinary amount of fragrance...

(Dec 1952)  Page(s) 21.  
 
According to Herbert C. Swim, the closest he came to his breeding objective is the rose Forty-niner -- a cross between 'Charlotte Armstrong' and 'Contrast'. Out of this cross also came 'Applause' (which won Swim his first Gold Medal at Bagatelle) and 'Multnomah' (which Swim considered a "spectacular rose in the Northwest"...

(Dec 1952)  Page(s) 18-19.  
 
[When Herbert Swim observed this rose in the field he thought] It had a bushy plant about four feet tall, with eighteen or twenty buds coming on almost together. The vigor, the neatness of the plant habit, the excellent foliage coverage, the beautiful color of the buds and flowers, seemed to make it an improvement over anything available at the time in that type of rose.

(Dec 1952)  Page(s) 19.  
 
[In 1938, Dr. Lammerts crossed 'Mrs. Dudley Fulton', a Polyantha, aka the Evergreen Shrub Rose, with the Miniature 'Tom Thumb'.] His idea was to produce miniatures in a wider range of colors than was then available. ['China Doll' was one of the results from this cross, but it wasn't quite what he was looking for.] It seemed logical to assume that a second filial generation from China Doll should give us the re-combination of these miniature rose characteristics with some degree of variation in flower color. [But, again, they failed to meet the objective. However, an interesting dwarf polyantha named 'Pinkie' was the result.]

(Dec 1952)  Page(s) 21.  
 
Chief Seattle is a sister seedling to 'Sutter's Gold' and received its name at the American Rose Society convention in Seattle, Washington, in June 1951.