THE OLD LADY AND THE GOOSEBERRY
Magic plants usually belong to fairy stories, yet scientists work wonders now which in the Middle Ages wouldhave been taken for witchcraft (states? an English writer). A gooseberry bush bearing fuchsia blossoms .astonished the visitors at a flower show held by the Oxfordshire Horticultural Society. It was grown by a Cheltenham firm. "These new-fangled things are all very well," said an old countrywoman, "but give me good old-fashioned gooseberries, golden-green, and bursting With juice; there is nothim to beat thin
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 6, 6 July 1935, Page 20
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86THE OLD LADY AND THE GOOSEBERRY Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 6, 6 July 1935, Page 20
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