“Perennial: Any plant which, had it lived, would have bloomed year after year.”

— Henry N. Beard

Gardening: A Gardener's Dictionary http://books.google.com/books?id=lXEICs1TcWMC&q=%22Perennial+Any+plant+which+had+it+lived+would+have+bloomed+year+after+year%22&pg=PA65#v=onepage (1982)

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American writer, co-founder and editor of National Lampoon 1945

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