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His Own Prescription

At the age of 70, Dr. Harry E. Raymond decided to take up rose growing as a hobby. "Now I 've got rose fever," he says 12 years later, "and an aspirin won't cure it."

The 82-year-old West Newton, Mass., optometrist joined the Maine Rose Garen Tour in 1960. -- Newspaper clip from Portland, ME, Evening Express, Tuesday, June 28, 1960