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5 Dorothy Perkins and Mrs Van Rossem are the names of two roses listed in the
Index of Vita Sackville-West. 1987. The Illustrated Garden Book, p. 190.
6 seven sisters Danae dusky beauty assembly of beauties (Assemblages des Beautés)
Penelope are all names of roses listed in the Index of Vita Sackville-West’s The
Illustrated Garden Book, p. 190.
7 give her roses. Suniti Namjoshi, in her 1980 poem writes, “I give her the rose with
unfurled petals/ she smiles / and crosses her legs. / I give her the shell with the
swollen lip. / She laughs. I bite / and nuzzle her breasts. / I tell her, ‘Feed me on
flowers / with wide open mouths,’ / and slowly, / she pulls down my head.”
This poem and accompanying photographs of roses and other flowers are
contained in Lariane Fonseca. 1992. If Passion Were a Flower…
8 ring-a-ring o’ roses. This children’s rhyme is thought to have arisen in London
during the Great Plague of 1665. The roses are the circular red spots, or buboes,
characteristic of the plague. One form of the plague – the Pneumonic plague – is
spread by sneezing.