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For National Rose Month …

All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.—Robert Browning Hamilton

Robert John Thornton, New illustration of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus . . . , 1807.

 

—Elizabeth Periale

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