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Dogs sometimes disturb roses by burying their bones too near the roots, but in general rose thorns provide adequate self-protection.

— Cynthia Westcott

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Thrips are tiny insects with rasping-sucking mouthparts, gradual metamorphosis. They feed by macerating surface layers of plant cells and sucking up the juices. They belong to the order Thysanoptera ...

Garden Enemies (1953)

Our new headquarters were at the laboratory at Lyngby, outside of Copenhagen, right next to King Christian's summer palace. He was always going out alone on horseback by our building and I always just missed seeing him.

Raspberry Horntail, Hartigia cressoni (Kirby). One of the stem sawflies, a western species, injuring young shoots of blackberry, loganberry, raspberry, and rose. Bright yellow-and-black females appear in April and May to insert eggs with a curved point under epidermis of tender tips of host plants.

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A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however eloquently he may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were honest but poor.

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Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.

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True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)

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