On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 12:31:07 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:

The message
from Martin Brown contains these words:

It won't burn particularly well, but if you can get it loaded with
enough potassium nitrate and alight it will continue to smoulder if it
ever gets dry enough. I tried this with an old dead 2' diameter pear
tree stump about a decade ago. The effect was that it would not burn
because ground was far too wet even on the driest summer days.

Saltpetre *IS* potassium nitrate.

I was hoping that as it's Sunday, you were going to quote something
biblical about the burning bush.
--
Martin