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YOU MAY HAVE GUESSED THE NAME: HARRY WHEATCROFT
rain belted down. London's streets were cold and misty. Feeling grey inside, I snuggled into my winter coat, drew my scarf more closely around my neck.
Then I met Harry Wheatcroft. Harry the magnificent, rosarian extraordinary. It was a tonic. He wore a bold check suit of a pattern like a horse blanket; a silk shirt of dark blue and red; his tie was white; his waistcoat a bright brown suede; his socks a talkative tartan under elephant-grey monk shoes.
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His hand was warth as he clasped mine. never
wear I've never been photographed gloves." sald Whestereft, "nor
without a ruso," a hat."
"I never wear anderejolher. I never wear wool next to my skin, 1 never use an overcast at home -only when I come :o London.'
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A little breathless, he look a scal iri the restaurant. He mokes le, drinka sparingly and is almost n vegetarion
My photographer slenped for- ward. With dismay. Harry Wheaterft looked down at his buttonhole. "No ruse," he cried,
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Hu and his brother Alfred have built up one of Britain's Kreatest rose-growing enterprises at Nottingham. Both worked had in the elds.
Alfred, the elder.. has always been a worker bee: Harry has shrewd brain and the howmanship to explot their
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How did this business of the whiskers start? This is one of the traits Wheatcroft inherited, His father, a builder, was a Socialist agnostic. And wore side whiskers. Harry, too, is a Sosinles he dues not go to church
"When my beard began to appear," he says, "I found it cauler 10 let it STOW, lilce father's, than lo shave every day."
He has since discovered that his whiskers and nis taste for
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BULL TERRIER
TADE fram a combination of the bulldog and terelor, the bull terrier han the virtues of both. With the Indomitable courage of the bulldog he combines the activity and olan of the tarrier. Bull terriers are much liked in India and other troplast countries. Thele reputation was not of the best in the oid days when they were the gladiators of the fighting pit. They were then principally coloured, and the whites introduced an air of refinement. The head in a curious feature, baing almost egg-shaped, and the proffio la almost an aco. The more down-fasad the better. The paws are powerful, fipe tight and clean oare small and thin, erect, semi-oruat or rose. Eyes well runken, as nourly timck as positie, email, almond-shaped or trianguiar, not close together and hearer the ears than nose. Cheat brosd and "deep, ribs well sprung: back chort, strong and musauler, no dip at withers and e irifle arohed at loin. Log of moderate length and straight. Fast round and. compact, Tail ahört, fire, set bd low and carried horizontally,
Height 19-2Rin. Weight 40-501b, Colour white, white with black or brindle merkings on the head, or "cloured," 'Le. all- Brindle and beach. Bot nhat ảnh smooth.
in clothes are good for colour. business.
Nowadays he shaves his chin with a safety razor. For his hair and whiskers, he goes to a barber at Victoria.
"I sneak away from shows nt Hall," the Royal Horticultural says Wheatcroft. "and go to my barber. The same man has been looking after me for years.
His clothes
"He is a real tunsorial artist, and is very happy to see me after dealing with the short-back-and- sides brigade.
About his clothes he is not so happy. All his Hle he has patronized the same shop in Nottingham. There his idiosyn- cracies have been studied and all his odd demands filed.
"But now the shop has closed becatise of all the down,
on in rebuilding that's going Nottingham. So 1 don't know what I'm going to do.
Here is a chance for the men's wear specialists, frunn Savile Row to the Charing Cross Road.
Harry started bls married life in a caravan. Now there are Ave children and they live in a fine house.
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That is high praise.
So far, Superstar has not been shown for in award in this country. But it will be on sale in the autumn at 10s. Od.
Mrk Harry Doss i ber friends can always be seon at her husband's side at Chelsea. She is one of the best horticul- tural saleswomen in the country. At home, the fakes a load of business from her husband's shoulder.
"When we married 30 years go" says Harry, "we poated our money and started a joint bank :count. Doss looks alter that think I have written 50 cheques. "In all thoso years don't She has written them all,"
Not for long does Wheat- croft's talk stray from ruses. So
Prospered
Since the Wheatcroft brothers went
Into partnership 50 years ngo, their business has prospered have 450,000 rose troos in their exceedingly. They hardens, I should say the anter- prise is worth £500,000,
One of the unhappy things that happens 10 # private concern like this is that sooner
to pay.
I ask him: When are we going or later there are death dulles to get the perfume back in rases? Ho explains that when hybridisation began CTONCTS produced roses more beautiful in colour and shape. Visually. they are perfect. but the scent almost vanished. Why?
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"Nobody knows," says Wheat- croft, "It is one of the greatest mysteries of nature, You can crocr tvo roses with heavy bouquets.
the resulting and hybrid, beautiful though it may be, has no scent, I don't know why. Nobody does."
Coming back
But the scent. he tells me. is coming back. The roses Hugh Dickson and Magenta have some fragrance.
Then he tells me about Super- This new rose, Wheatcroft star. says, will be the sensation of the Chekea Show this year.
Pure vermillon in colour, it has an elegant long," pointed bud.
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distinctive fragrance.
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Harry left school at 15, His Wheatcroft thinks this rose is towards Øve children he sent to Bedales, quite ย step back
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of them and some of Alfred's reckons it is on a par with the
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Alfred, 65, and Harry, 02, have discussed this problem. But so about it, which is odd when for Harry has done nothing
you consider how shrewd and prudent he is,
"We'll get round to it one day."
Then he saya.
adds with a twinkle; "You know, how much is paid in estaté duties is of no interest to the person who dies"
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