Jennifer Ebeling<p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/December" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>December</span></a> 18, 2018<br>Still hard to <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Believe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Believe</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> David Austin, <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Rose" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rose</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Breeder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Breeder</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Writer</span></a>, died. </p><p>After David passed, I found some of his <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Advertisements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Advertisements</span></a> from 1973. <br>By that time, David had worked with <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Roses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roses</span></a> for 12 years. <br>His first commercially available Rose was the <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Constance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constance</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Spry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spry</span></a> (<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Florist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Florist</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Legend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Legend</span></a>)</p><p>One ad read:</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OldFashioned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OldFashioned</span></a> roses, <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Shrub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shrub</span></a> roses, <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Rare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rare</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Unusual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Unusual</span></a> roses, many of our own <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Breeding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Breeding</span></a>. <br>Roses of <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Charm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Charm</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Fragrance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fragrance</span></a>. The country's <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Finest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Finest</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Collection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Collection</span></a>. <br>"A <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Handbook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Handbook</span></a> of Roses" <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Free" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Free</span></a>.</p>