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The rose-grower is an elegant, elderly woman who leads Julie’s Resistance circuit and gave it its name: the Damask Circuit. Prior to the war, she was a renowned horticulturist and grew damask roses. Maddie meets her twice: once after the failed Resistance attack on the bridge, and then just after the Resistance blows up the Gestapo HQ in Ormaie. The rose-grower is extremely kind to Maddie and, during Maddie’s second visit, shows her the spot in her rose garden where she buried Julie and the other female prisoner who was killed on the bridge. Maddie realizes then that the rose-grower is actually Julie’s great-aunt.
The Rose-Grower Quotes in Code Name Verity
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Part 2, Section 18
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Her gardens are full of roses—sprawling, old tangled bushes, quite a few of them autumn-flowering damasks with their last flowers still nodding and drooping in the rain. […] The flowers are sodden and dying in the December rain, but the sturdy bushes are still alive, and will be beautiful someday in the spring, if the German army doesn’t mow them down like the ones in the Ormaie town square.
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Part 2, Section 24
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“They let us bury everyone at last,” she told me. “Most are up there by the bridge. But I was so angry about those poor girls, those two lovely young girls left lying there in the dirt for four days with the rats and the crows at them! It’s not right. It is not natural. So when we buried the others I had the men bring the girls here—”
Julie is buried in her great-aunt’s rose garden, wrapped in her grandmother’s first Communion veil, and covered in a mound of damask roses.
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The Rose-Grower Quotes in Code Name Verity
The Code Name Verity quotes below are all either spoken by The Rose-Grower or refer to The Rose-Grower. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 2, Section 18
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Her gardens are full of roses—sprawling, old tangled bushes, quite a few of them autumn-flowering damasks with their last flowers still nodding and drooping in the rain. […] The flowers are sodden and dying in the December rain, but the sturdy bushes are still alive, and will be beautiful someday in the spring, if the German army doesn’t mow them down like the ones in the Ormaie town square.
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Part 2, Section 24
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“They let us bury everyone at last,” she told me. “Most are up there by the bridge. But I was so angry about those poor girls, those two lovely young girls left lying there in the dirt for four days with the rats and the crows at them! It’s not right. It is not natural. So when we buried the others I had the men bring the girls here—”
Julie is buried in her great-aunt’s rose garden, wrapped in her grandmother’s first Communion veil, and covered in a mound of damask roses.
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