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Flowers for Algernon is a short story by American author Daniel Keyes, later expanded by him into a novel and subsequently adapted for film and other media. The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960. [ 2 ]
The Tudor rose (sometimes called the Union rose) is the traditional floral heraldic emblem of England and takes its name and origins from the House of Tudor, which united the House of Lancaster and the House of York. The Tudor rose consists of five white inner petals, representing the House of York, and five red outer petals to represent the ...
Rosa × damascena ( Latin for damascene rose ), more commonly known as the Damask rose, [ 1][ 2] or sometimes as the Iranian Rose, Bulgarian rose, Taif rose, Ispahan rose and Castile rose, is a rose hybrid, derived from Rosa gallica and Rosa moschata. [ 3] DNA analysis has shown that a third species, Rosa fedtschenkoana, has made some genetic ...
Known for. Painting. Spouse. Juriaen Pool. . . ( m. 1693; died in 1745) . Rachel Ruysch (3 June 1664 – 12 October 1750) [ 1] was a Dutch still-life painter from the Northern Netherlands. She specialized in flowers, inventing her own style and achieving international fame in her lifetime.
Retrieved 2019-12-30. ^ Killingsworth, Ron (2012-05-23). "LA Irises, The Wildflower of the State of Louisiana". World of Irises. American Iris Society. Retrieved 2019-12-30. ^ "State Flower - White Pine and White Pine Cone & Tassel". Maine Secretary of State. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
Rosa arkansana, the prairie rose[ 1] or wild prairie rose, is a species of rose native to a large area of central North America, between the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains from Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan south to New Mexico, Texas and Indiana . There are two varieties : The name Rosa arkansana comes from the Arkansas River in Colorado.
71 cm × 90 cm (28 in × 35 in) Location. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Accession. 1991.67.1. Still Life: Vase with Pink Roses was painted in 1890 by Vincent van Gogh in Saint-Rémy. At the time the work was painted Van Gogh was readying himself to leave the Saint-Rémy asylum for the quiet town of Auvers-sur-Oise outside of Paris.
The hybrid perpetual has cup-shaped flowers with a brilliant crimson colour and up to 50 petals, situated on long stiff stems.The buds are thick and globular and open to strongly scented, hybrid tea-like flowers with a diameter of 11 cm. [2] They appear in flushes over a long period, but according to the RHS Encyclopedia of Roses, only sparingly.