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The most fiendish plant I know of, the sort of thing Beelzebub might pluck to make a bouquet for his mother-in-law... it looks as if it had been made out of a sow's ear for the spathe, and the tail of a rat that died of Elephantiasis for the spadix. The whole thing is mingling of unwholesome greens, livid purples, and pallid pinks, the livery of putrescence in fact, and it possesses and odour to match the colouring.

Edward Augustus Bowles

Edward Augustus Bowles

Edward Augustus Bowles

Born: May 14, 1865

Died: May 7, 1954 (aged 88)

Bio: Edward Augustus Bowles, VMH, known professionally as E. A. Bowles, was a British horticulturalist, plantsman and garden writer.

Known for:

My Garden in Summer (1914)
My garden in autumn and winter (1915)
My Garden in Spring (1914)

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