Telegraph quiz
"Janet Tweedy" The quiz is set by the RHS and is
fairly difficult, I am not sure about
a couple of my answers and another two I don't know.
One question was:
The plant hunter, David Douglas, worked for the Horticultural Society,
(the forerunner of the RHS), in the 19th century and in 1834 lost his
life while plant hunting in the Sandwich Islands when he was
a) Eaten by a shark
b) Bitten by a snake
c) Gored by a bull
d) Attacked by killer bees
Google gives loads of hits.............:
In July 1833 he was exploring the Island when he either fell (or there are
theories he was pushed) into a large pit that had been dug to trap wild bulls.
His body was found apparently trampled by an animal.
the other that I can't do was a picture of some fir cones and you had to
guess:
These cones are typically borne by:
a) Korean fir
b) Douglas fir
c) Serbian spruce
d) Corsican pine
Pity URG is does not support jpegs :~))
Try Google image search.
Good luck
Jenny
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