Article: GILDING THE ROSE `BEAUTY PAGEANT' WILL CAST THEM IN THEIR BEST LIGHT .(Spotlight on Home and Gardening)

Byline: James B. Meadow Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer

If you think that an English Box is a coffin for Londoners, that a Blanc Double de Coubert is the noble protagonist of a Harlequin romance novel or that Gertrude Stein was right on when she wrote, ``Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose,'' you need to fortify your floral IQ.

A perfect place to do that is Saturday's Rose Show at the Denver Botanic Gardens, where 300 to 800 entries will battle bloom to bloom in 60 competition classifications - and that's not counting the coveted ``Queen of the Show'' title.

``It's really a beauty show for roses, like a Miss America pageant,'' says Susan ...

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