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Article: Roots Intertwined; Lilies-of-the-Valley Grown in the Soil of a Family's Past
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- The Washington Post
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- February 23, 1995
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The arbiters of taste in the garden measure a plant's worth by
such things as its flower color or growth habit.
These are important considerations, but not the only ones.
Sometimes, a plant that looks quite ordinary to one person is filled
with priceless sentimental associations to another. For brothers
Steven and Peter Schenk, the lilies-of-the-valley in their Northern
Virginia gardens have the power to transport them back to the 18th
century, to the fabled Black Forest of Germany where their ancestors
lived.
They trace their family story to 1740, when the Schenk brothers'
great-grandmother's great-grandmother got married, and she and her
husband built a wooden house in a village on the ...
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