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Nancy Lindsay and Rose de Rescht

mike_rivers
16 years ago

Nancy Lindsay evidently claimed to have discovered Rose de Rescht somewhere in Persia. Way back, so far back I can't recall the author, I read something to the effect, "cruel skeptics claimed she actually found the rose in a garden in France". I thought that was a nice defense of the person who gave us this lovely plant. Now I just read in my copy of the American Rose Society's Encyclopedia of Roses by the Quest-Ritsons, "Lindsay claimed to have found it near Rescht in Persia, but she was notoriously untruthful, and this claim can be discounted". Well, I think the Quest-Ritsons are notoriously lacking in manners no matter what the truth of the matter, but does anyone have any views as to what exactly that might be? I hope Jon has some thoughts on this.

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