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A hedgehog by any other name might smell as sweet
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A ROSE by any other name would smell as sweet, said Bill from Stratford.
For Valentine’s Day the florists of Britain and the world sell us British lovers more than eight million roses, mostly red.
Sixty per cent come from Kenya and the rest of the bunch came from Colombia, India, Tanzania and Ecuador. More than nine out of 10 fresh cut roses imported into Britain’s market arrive by air. Many come via the huge international flower markets of the Netherlands.
Whenever I am writing about plants or animals in these pages, I always try to use the official or scientific Latin name at least once. With roses the genus name is Rosa.
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