the flowers of Natal

my billet gillian had an aunt
winifred
a navy scientist in 1916
!
who
amongst many other things
wrote a book called
the wild flowers of southern africa
natal
a rambler's pocket guide
and the dedication reads

IN MEMORY OF
John
my husband, who, coming to
Natal in 1947, loved the wild
flowers, and suggested we buy
a little book to tell us their
names, but there was no
little book

...
ahhhh
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