My father beloved to develop roses, especially tea roses. Beginning while in the early he bought basic, wax coated bare root roses and afterwards pampered them in diligently tended beds, feeding them cocktails laced with herbicides and fertilizers, as prescribed by the most up-to-date advert marketing campaign. Aphids, black place, rust and powdery mildew have been the bane of his existence, in conjunction with wayward tea roses that developed multiple flower for each stem.

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