If Oscie was correct in recording the seedling numbers of BONNE CHANCE and MY GIGGLER, then his notebook shows that BONNE CHANCE was not the pod parent, but a sibling was. The sibling measured 5.5" and was a round rose flower. The notebook has a question mark in the position of the pollen parent, so Oscie's designation of "seedling" may have been a guess. Although he registered MY GIGLER as a 5" flower, his measurement in the notebook says 5.5". He suffered from bouts of confusion in 2000, based I think on his atrial fibrillation condition which proved difficult to regulate. There are numerous mental lapses in the 2000 price list. Among them is a statement that the parents of MY GIGGLER were "Rose Impact x Bonne Chance." He might have had the reverse in mind (dyslexia was a factor) and intended to say "Bonne Chance x Rose Impact." He would still have been incorrect about the pod parent, but it is possible that Rose Impact was pollen parent because I've seen Rose Impact kids without veining and with much larger size than Rose Impact. A small mystery.

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