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Rose Breeder and Discoverer
Listing last updated on Wed Aug 2024
1983 New Zealand Rose Annual
p48. D. C. Sheppard. Round the Nurseries. Frank Mason & Son Ltd., Sandon Road, Feilding.
In 1912 Mr. Frank Mason finally sucumbed to the insistent tugging of the rose thorns in his garden on his farm near Bunnythorpe and put down a deposit of twenty five pounds on a property in Feilding where he planned to start a nursery......until his death in 1956.
At the end of the second World War, his son Alan, after serving in the Fleet Air Arm, returned to N.Z. with an English (Wren) bride....the latent love of roses grew in him, and he's still there, growing beautiful roses with his wife attending to the office.
2000 New Zealand Rose Annual
p35. Frank Mason & Son Ltd. 87 Years of Continuous Rose Growing.
When Alan and Mary were approaching their 70s, they appointed a young manager and gave him the opportunity to buy the shares and eventually run the business. Unfortunately, this was not successful, and we were very sad indeed when 1999 saw the demise of the oldest continuous rose growing business in New Zealand.
2016 Heritage Roses New Zealand Vol 41, No. 3
p30 Doreen Jolly, The Mason Family of Feilding
2016 New Zealand Rose Annual
p99. Alan Mason passed away on April 28, aged 94......
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