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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 123, 24 May 1879, Page 4

Florieultura! Enthu9ifism. — Id a pßper on lea roses, in " The Garden," the clever author of a " Book about Roses," " Six of Spndee," &<\, referring to (he late John Keynes, of Salisbury, reproduces from (he last-named brochure an amusing anecdote told by Mr Key nee, on occasion of presiding at a large dinner of horticulturists in London, at which the genial Vicar of Oxford, Fitzpalne, presided, The incident related is vouched for as a " literal fflof. ' The neme of the owner cf tho broken leg was Strong. Gentlemen, Baid Mr Keynee, you are all euthusinstic floriss, and you wil 1 be pleased to have ao example of floral zeal, I kew an exhibitor of carnations and picotees who, in stepping oat of his cart at a show, Btumbled and broke his lep. He persisted, notwithstanding this fracture, in staging hia flnwers, and afier this he remained for three hours in the vieicity of the building in which the exhibition was held without cnusulting the doctor until the awards of the judge were known." Canon Hole then adds, I need only say that this extraordinary instance of floral worship evoked the astonished admiration of the company ; but when the narrator quietly added, as he slowly took his seat, "It was a wooden leg, gentlemen," I shall never forget the perplexed e xpressioD of his hearers, the momentary indignation resenting the deception, aud then tho unanimous outburst of mirth.

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