Introducing:
THE GIRL
SCOUT ROSE
To celebrate their approaching 50th anniver
sary, Girl Scouts will plant a new golden rose
to help beautify America's towns and cities
By LYNN LANDMAN
A troop leader and Intermediate Girl Scouts watch a Senior Scout at work in a rose garden.
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Contrasting the old with the new, this photo shows the
Lily of the Valley Patrol organized in February, 1913.
Fiftieth anniversaries are always something
special. But when some 3V& million members
of a "family" prepare for a golden anniversary,
that is "special."
On March 12, 1962, the Girl Scouts of the U. S. A.
will be SO years old. In the half-century since a
Southern gentlewoman named Juliette Gordon
Low organized 12 young girls in Savannah, Ga.,
into the first Girl Scout troop, almost 17 million
Americans adults as well as girls between the
ages of seven and 17 have been Girl Scouts. Every
American family, whether they live in a teeming
city or a tiny hamlet, has been touched by Girl
Scouting.
A charming tribute will be paid to the Girl
Scouts in honor of their approaching 50th anni
versary. This week, a beautiful golden rose
named the Girl Scout Rose will be introduced to
the American public and to Girl Scouts convening
for their 35th convention in St. Louis, Mo.
The first bouquet of Girl Scout Roses (see cover)
will be presented to the president of the organiza
tion, Mrs. Charles U. Culmer. The city of St. Louis
will receive a gift of rosebushes to start a Golden .
Blossom Girl Scout Garden at the City Hall Plaza.
The Girl Scout Rose, which bears clusters of up
to 15 blossoms on each stem, was developed by the
eminent hybridist, Eugene Boerner, director of re
search for Jackson & Perkins Co., one of the
world's leading rose nurseries. Despite its delicate
appearance, it will grow anywhere in America
even in deserts of the West and the frozen earth
of Alaska. Since Girl Scouts, as well as roses, flour
ish in these climes, by the summer of 1962 all of
our vast country will be abloom with Girl Scout
Roses and other golden blossoms.
The rose is part of a program called "Blossoms
for the Birthday Years," and, in celebration of
their 50th birthday and as a token of their pledge to
"Honor the Past Serve the Future," Girl Scouts
will beautify their surroundings by planting it and
other blooms.
From the tiniest 7-year-old Brownie to the most
knowledgeable 17-year-old Senior, Girl Scouts
will "scout their neighborhoods," looking for suit
able sites on which to start Golden Blossom Girl
Scout Gardens. Village squares, shopping centers,
parks, hospital and library grounds, city halls, old
peoples' homes, church and synagogue grounds
all will be beautified by the girls in green. A
golden crop of crocuses, tulips, azaleas, daffodils,
chrysanthemums, sunflowers, marigolds and roses,
of course will emblazon the Girl Scout colors,
green and gold, on the landscape.
Girl Scouts who live in large cities will take part
in this program, too. They will plant window
boxes with yellow nasturtiums and cucumber, to
mato, and squash plants, all of which have yellow
flowers. They will prepare terrariums with small
yellow blossoms and bring them to shut-ins in hos
pitals and other institutions. They will take raw
materials seeds, pots, etc. to orphanages and
teach the youngsters how to grow and care fori
plants. They will, in short, use all their ingenuity
to bring the joy of growing things to all.
Gardening has always been an important activity
in Girl Scouting! In 1917, Juliette Gordon Low
wrote: "Now what about the gardens, for it goes
without saying that Girl Scouts must have gardens.
Getting right down and smelling the fresh soil is
good for anyone. It is mother earth's own breath.
Watching the growth of our seeds is a veritable
joy of joys."
If the gardens planted by Girl Scouts flourish as
the 50-year-old organization has, all America will
enjoy the experience of watching beauty bloom.
COVER: WoeJciy November 13. I960
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