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Old 12-12-2002, 11:09 PM
Sue & Bob Hobden
 
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"Kay wrote in message

Now try... Coelogyne :-)


That's the one my mother always called 'colly ogny'
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All right then it's correctly Koy-lo-gin-ee (as it's Latin) but commonly
it's called
see-lo-gie-nee. :-)
Pronounced it wrongly for years until an Orchid nurseryman out Greenham
Common way (Thatched Lodge Orchids*) told be otherwise.
*sadly long gone.
--
Bob

www.pooleygreengrowers.org.uk/ about an Allotment site in
Runnymede fighting for it's existence.