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The presidents with roses named after them are:
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
William McKinley
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
Is there a message here about our presidents? Can this be the A list? Or do the rose breeders need to get busy?
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Well, there was a "Bill Clinton" rose in production, but it keeps trying to pollinate other flowers, and the "George W. Bush" rose has been proven extremely allelopathic. What's a rosarian to do? ;-)
Posted by: John Black | February 21, 2007 at 01:24 PM