In article , Janet Baraclough
writes

I'm just glad seeds can't read, and don't get discouraged easily.

Don't bank on it! My mother would always put *some* name on any
unidentified cactus - she reckoned they grew better if they had a name
;-)

Actually, it could be simply that she was inclined to value more, and
therefore tend more carefully, something that was named rather than just
sitting in a pot without a label. So there may have been something in
it. Certainly I find that if I talk to a plant, I have to find something
to say, and therefore pay it more attention than otherwise, and so spot
pests at an earlier and more easily controllable stage.


--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"