Rose Factfile

10 things you didn't know about Roses.

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Issue number 21
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  1. A rose by any other name would still smell of nothing if it was mass produced for looks rather than scent.

  2. Before eating your way through a box of roses, make sure they're Cadbury's, and not from the local florists.

  3. Prick your thumb on a rose thorn, and you will hurt for a hundred seconds.

  4. English Rose works at the Dog and Duck with Ice Floe.

  5. February is to roses what December is to turkeys.

  6. Rose petals scattered in your lover's path may seem like a romantic idea, but the cleaning bill is astronomical.

  7. 17.71% of roses are bought in error, or due to one.

  8. Tea roses are not intended to be consumed.

  9. The Mary Rose took several hundred years to do so.

  10. Rose water is not suitable for washing windows, whatever the design.
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