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The Bowden Lily is an ornamental bulb which I observed growing in the grounds of Bristol Cathedral. It produces beautiful ‘strap-shaped, rich green leaves preceded by erect stems bearing umbels of lily-like pink flowers 6-8cm in width, with wavy, recurved segments’, according the eloquent writers of the Royal Horticultural Society. Under the heading of 'Pruning', it is noted, rather simply:
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Lauran O'Toole in the Daily Express reports:
Lord Nelson portraits replaced by Yvette Cooper in Parliament in purge of historic figures
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Buried in the ground of All Saints’ Church in the Lincolnshire village of Nettleham lays John Cammack, my 4x great-grandfather. When I called, I had not the time to search every stone, but on 27 January, 1859, his cadaver was lowered into the ground. In life he had been a shepherd, and this is the occupation he gave on the 1851 census.
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