It is the birthday of Deborah Mitford Cavendish, the current Duchess of Devonshire. She is the only one of the Mitford sisters, that frilly edge of 20th century history, still alive. She is listed as an author on a number of books, including, "The Garden of Chatsworth." In this book she quotes an architect on the kinds of wildflowers growing at Chatsworth, and here is an edited version of this list:
dog violet
ox-eye daisy
mouse-eared hawk weed
cat's ear
bird's foot trefoil
harebell...
Somebody else said (didn't they?) that lists can be poetry. This list sounds like a menagerie.
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