Neville recalls his mother, passionately fond of roses, who left digging, fertilizing and watering to the gardeners but insisted on doing all the rose grafting herself, choosing both the graft and the strong tree to bear it.
Date (happened)
before 1972
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [549569] belong to telling lecture nids [1940]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1972 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1972 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 31 January 1972
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1972 to before 1972-01-31.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1940 (certain delivery 1972-01-31); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1972`, an envelope over delivery YEARS computed without reading text. Its premise is that the fact is true by the time it is told; on that same premise the DAY of the telling is a strictly better upper bound. Nothing is re-decided — the bound is stated to the precision the evidence always supported. The delivery claim for 1972-01-31 on nid 1940 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
before November 1941
bound · probable
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 030)
Reasoning
'I can see my mother now grafting' (passage 549569) recalls her alive. Her death is placed in the 1941 Barbados voyage (frame 20587, events 8877 and 815), so the memory is at latest before November 1941; likely much earlier, from his childhood at Sunnyside, but no age is stated.
Sources
Source
- What Is Man ¶22 (If you’ve ever seen a graft, my mother had wonderful roses. She was passionately fond of roses, and I can see my mother now grafting. That was the one job she wanted to do for herself.)