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Via Futility Closet: A lady who was flattered to have a rose named after her changed her mind when
Via Futility Closet:
A lady who was flattered to have a rose named after her changed her mind when she saw the description of the rose in a gardener’s catalogue. Against her name it said: ‘shy in a bed but very vigorous against a wall.’
-- Leslie Dunkling, The Guinness Book of Names, 1993.
A lady who was flattered to have a rose named after her changed her mind when she saw the description of the rose in a gardener’s catalogue. Against her name it said: ‘shy in a bed but very vigorous against a wall.’
-- Leslie Dunkling, The Guinness Book of Names, 1993.
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