William Morris famously disliked double flowers. 'Be very shy of double flowers,' he advised, 'choose the old columbine where the clustering doves are unmistakeable and distinct, not the double one, where they run into tatters Choose (if you can get it) the old China-aster with the yellow centre Don't be swindled out of that wonder of beauty, a single snowdrop; there is no gain and plenty of loss in the double one.' And so on. Morris was a man of strong opinion, if nothing else.
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