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Home My WebLink AboutClinton News-Record, 1962-04-05, Page 3John' S. Armstrong, Founder of Armstrong Nurseries John S. Armstrong, Ontario, California, now in his 96th year, is still going strong. Mr. Armstrong left Clinton about 75 years ago with tuberculosis, and the advice from doctors that he could "add a year or so" to his life by moving to a warm dry climate. Today he is one of the few living men in whose honour an All-American Rose has been named. (Armstrong Nurseries Photo by Clint Bryant) LET US CLEAN LAST YEAR'S CLOTHES LUKE NEW AGAIN! No need to buy a whole new wardrobe for spring, when our scientific cleaning procesS will make lost season's outfits look so fresh and new. Let us clean those winter clothes too, before you store them. They'll last longer. THE LUCKY NUMBER THIS WEEK IS 1986 Check Your Calendar. If the numbers match, •take the Calendar to out' office and claim your $3 credit. USE THE NIGHT DE- POSIT BOX AT OUR ON ALBERT. STREET, FOR DRY CLEANING OR LAUNDRY. DROP YOUR BUNDLE IN BE- TWEEN 4 &M.& 12 P.M. LAUNDRY CLEANERS arried ClintonGirl ' John Armstrong The Rose and the I an SERVING IN , SO MANY WAYS The Red Cross Looks to You The humanitarian achievements of the Red Cross depend on your generosity. Your dollars provide and carry on the essential Red Cross services and programmes in your community. This year—think of the many ways the Red Cross serves you and your neighbour —then plan your donation or pledge to the best of your means. A generous donation Will do so much for so many in 1962. Red Cross Need Your Help Now 211-6g Clinton and District Canvass Week of April 9 to 14 A. J, McMURRAYy Chalrman Lyric Theatre • Exeter TWO SHOWS NIGHTLY --7.30 and 930 THURS., FRI., SAT.—April 5-6-7—All Laugh Show "FULLER BRUSH MAN" Starring ,RED SKELTON -- JANET BLAIR PLUS "FULLER BRUSH GIRL" Starring LUCILLE BALL 7- EDDIE ALBERT MON., TUES., WED.—April 9-10-11 "PARIS BLUES" Starring PAUL NEWMAN -- JOANNE WOODWARD Adult Entertainment Coiling--"MASTER OF THE WORLD" Plus "THE FIRST TEXAN" The "John S. Armstrong" a Clark, velvety-red rose, is pre- dicted to have the same im- mortality as that achieved by its proud parents, Charlotte Armstrong, "first lady" of Hy- brid Teas. The introduction of this ex- quisitely flowering, unusually vigorous new champion climaxes 20 years of scientific research by Armstrong Nurseries, Inc., Ontario, Calif., to develop "the complete Grandiflora" a hybrid that embraces all the qualities and characteristics once could reasonably desire he a rose. The second consecutive All- American Rose Selections Grandiflora introduction (Pink Parfait, 1961) by Armstrong Nurseries, the new winner is named in honour of the 95- year-old founder and chairman of the board of the famed. Cali- fornia rose breeding farm: Charlotte Armstrong, ! 1941 AARS winner was crossed with an unnamed seedling to create this new hybrid. The living vivid red qualitY of the John S, Armstrong's flowers adds a new colour to the universal rose spectrum.The colour never varies in its in- tensity from the bud stage to open flower. It will not fade. Exhaustive tests throughout the United States have found that unlike most dark red ros- es, it will not burn nor take on a bluish hue. Under ex- treme weather conditions, small maroon accents appear on the tips of the petals, a touch by All America Rose "A New Champion" .Fporn in Sheffield'. Ontario;. on Opeober • el, 1See, John Arai- strong was one of seveilt ren of Joseph end. Eliza .15011 Arenetrolig, At !the age of 14 he -went: rte Springfield to learn the trade of leahineeeneleer, He agreed eo . Work for three year at $50 for the first year, $60 the second year !end' $75 the .t114,-'4 Ygare OS Wend, • "It was a email shop," Mr. Aemetrong evealled for the Angeles Herald and Express reporter, "With no. machinery except a turning lathe run by • foot power, There Wais.• no heat' in. the winter. When I gam,' Opined about the cold. the toga tOld me to -work harder.. The heat ,from within io better *men the heat frOm. without.'" He did week hard, but .tlie internal. heat from his' labow was . out enough U). balance the long hours, the poor diet,' and: cons- tant, geiavoing cold. Seeing that be Wasn't getting ahead, Armstrong wit. Furious his employer accused him of breaking the first engagement of his; life ane' predicted: his failure in the future. Eight years' later, young Arm- strong contracted' tuberculoses while working at Clinton. The News-Record first learn- ed !about Mr.. Armstrong and hlis ekills with roses, and other growing things, • from Hazel O'Neil Ross, who is a sister of Dell O'Neil and W, T. O'Neil, Clinton. Mrs. Ross now lives' in Los, Angeles, Calif. Mrs, ROM forwarded to us a clipping from the Los Angeeee Herald and. Express of last Oct- ober, telling the . story of Mr. Armstrong's' life: "Asp I remember," goes Mee. Ross' letter, "he worked in the nature that fUrther enhances the character and distinctive- ness of John S. Armstrong. Upright and free-branching, it is a self-proportioning plant, growing to a height of 4. to 5% feet, and fills out to approxi- mately the same size in width. It produces an abundance of basal canes, which keep it. well; foliaged from the ground up. The bud form and flowering habits of the John S. Armstrong are an adventure in colour and symmetry. The flowers are borne in clusters, in true grandi- flora style, but the individual! stems in the cluster are of ample length for cutting. The straight necks hold the medium to large flowers securely up- right, The distinctive, medium-sized buds, open, into multi-petaled flowers ranging up to four in- ches across. Rosarians have dif- ficulty deciding which stage of, the flower is most beautiful. ' Dr. David L. Armstrong stat- es that the rose is extremely resistant to disease. Mildew is no significant problem, nor is blackspot He says that the flowers last for exceptionally long periods (up to two weeks) and in cut flowers, will last well over a week under ordinary household conditions. JP1111 $. ArrnStrong jS the 9*-year-old founder and chairman of the hoard of Armstrong KUrseries, Inc., Ontario, CalifOrnia• ''o have an All-America Rose Selection whmer named after a liying person is a signal honour, that has come to only a few of the outstanding world figures, including Queen Elizabeth. Pictures accompanying this article were pro- \IWO for 11S by the direCtor of public relations Of the Armstrong Nurseries, Ontario, californ- Doherty Organ 'Factory and the employees and other citizens collected money 'and 104ded1 him gel to a stretcher and shipPed him jo a box car in California" Miss Dell O'Neil and her !ale- ter Hazel O'Neil I:Wee visited the Arinetroege in Ontario, about 1950, 011; Moral 3, 1889; John Arm, strong reached Ontario, calif., With in his pocket. "Riding clOwn Euclid Avenue from. the .Santa: Fe station," recalled Mr, Armstrong, "on the old, gravity mule ear on. a bright sunny morning, I saw ripe oranges en young trees I felt, like throw- ing my hat in the air and ex- claiming 'Eureka, I have found it'." However, he arrived in Cali- fornia just after the land boom collapse in 1887 and jobs. were scarce. He worked a few weeks as a potter in a 'hotel, then a summer camping in San An- tonic Canyon, where he regain, ed health. His real future began when lie landed a job for $1,25 a day with Horsley and Eaton, per- serymen. Laid off briefly, he took another job for $1.50 but then returned to the nursery, "because I was convinced there was a future in nursery pro- duets and aside from the com- mercial aspect, I found it a very pleasant occupation. He launched his own, busi- ness as Armstrong Nurseries', raising 100,000 'eucalyptus' and Monterey cypress trees the first year. These found a ready mar- ket as windbreaks far citrus! groves. . Then he expanded steadily and cautiously, acquir- ing real estate for crops at 'a few dollars an acre that today is wortih.reany • times more. Cured of TB, Mr. Armstrong brought his widowed mother, four bLothers anid Nye sisters to 0011010, CAUL Tlie family, and the.seven children bona to him and his wife, Were his re- About the 'turn Qf, jibe cen..., tury Mr, Armstrong became in- terested in the rose man order business. More and more emphasis was Placed on `rose hybradizatioh louwirug UP tire United States Fatent Act of the early 1930e. VP to that time, most of 'die new rose varieties came 'frorri EtillePe and U.S. belbeicikeere had been unable to maintain oily degree of protection on royalty rights on domestic introduction. Today, Armstrong Nurseries, under the guidance of his eon, Awdey Aemet.romg, president 'and general manager, is ene,of the world's largest rose mail order firms, in addition to being the country's leading creators of new garden rose varieties. In collaboration with his sea, he instituted Armstrong NUT- series vast scientific pose re, search center, directed today by his grandson, Dr, David L. Arm- strong, More accepted rose ver- ieties, have come from this neelitemillem deller research program 'than from 'any other breading= facility in the world. One such major research pro- gram he initiated prior to World' War II, promises to revolution- ize the peach indusbry, The Armstrong Nurseries' deciduous fruit research -center at Ontario and Wasco, Oalif„ after some 20 years 'of intensive cross- breeding, has succeeded' in de- veloping 'a variety called Springtime, the earliest fruiting table peach in commerce today. Of his seven children, only two survive, a son, J. Awdry and a daughter, Mrs. Olive Freeman. Mr. Armstrong lives quietly with his second wife, the for- mer Willa W. Bradley whom he married in, 1950 and he is visited frequently by his two grandsons, David L. Armstrong and John A. Armstrong, Jr; three granddaughters, Janetha, Mary and Karen and six great grandchildren. 1962 All American Grandiflora Rose The John S. Armstrong pictured above is the 1962 All American Grandiflora Rose. A dark vel- vety-red rose, it appears destined for the same im- mortality in its class.as that achieved by its proud parent, Charlotte Armstrong, "First Lady" of Hy- brid Teas. 'Charlotte Armstrong was born Charlot- te Cooper, sister of the late A. T. Cooper, Clinton. The Charlotte Armstrong is very possibly the most popular Hybrid Tea of all time, since more than 3,000,000 plants have been sold since its introduc- tion. It is a brilliant spectrum red.. (Armstrong Nurseries photo by Clint Bryant) Clinton Memorial Shop T. 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