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"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in message
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On 26th July I sent a number of what I thought were easy questions to
Kew. Yesterday, I received a reply.

It seems date palms will survive outside in a sheltered spot, but need
to be wrapped up in the winter against cold winds and frosts.

They don't know what a granadillo is, though some of my English
dictionaries do.

Thought it was a gr*e*nadillo?

So did I, but my dictionary told me it was granadilla (sorry, not
granadillo) and I guess that's relating to Granada rather than
grenade/grenadine.

However, it adds as an aside 'the edible fruit of various other
passion-flowers.' so perhaps I ought to forgive Kew for being cagey -
though I did give a detailed description.

This one was shaped rather like a wasps' nest and about the size of a
small pear. It had a hard, thin shell full of aromatic grey frogspawn
with very crunchy tadpoles.

I found two of them growing in Budgen's reduced price bit, at 10p a go,
and from the seeds there have grown several fine specimens which
presently are framing the insides of three windows.

When I get the right shaped tuits I'll have a google and see what else I
can discover, but ATM it's all I can do to keep up with what I ought to
be doing in RL as well as keeping up at the back here.

--
Rusty Hinge http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm

Dark thoughts about the Wumpus concerto played with piano,
iron bar and two sledge hammers. (Wumpus, 15/11/03)