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- ID
- c12
- Title
- "Crime by Blossoms."
- Genre
- Essay
- Page Count
- 2
- Word Count
- 800
- Publisher
- New Statesman and Nation
- Publication Year
- 1933
- Document Types
- Full-text Online
- Topics
- Gardening, Same Sex Relationships
A tongue-in-cheek review of the annual Chelsea Flower Show, constituting Bates's first of several works showing his love of gardening and, in particular, flowers.
Bates would again revisit the subject in 1935 ("Chelsea"), 1936 ("The Other Chelsea") and in a 1937 Country Life column for The Spectator ('The Exclusiveness of Chelsea'. February 26, 1937, p. 357).
In the New Statesman and Nation (May 27, 1933, v:118, pp. 684-685, attached).
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