About fifty years ago a friend of my mother gave her a rooted cutting from the beautiful pink strong-stemmed rose in her yard. It prospered and became a large bush. I got some of the children of this bush and they are still growing in my yard. I have shared this rose with others. Mamie Keith has been dead for many years, but everyone still calls the rose the Mamie Keith rose. Incidentally her name also lives on in the Mamie Keith Children's Wing of our local library, which received a large bequest in her will.
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