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Old 10-06-2008, 08:02 PM posted to rec.gardens
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In article
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Billy wrote:

In article ,
Erik Vastmasd wrote:

I'm an Atheist but this is a gardening newsgroup so I won't discuss our
differences in religious beliefs.


O', den you won't be joining us for next spring's
fertility rites;-)


While looking about for voluptuous plants inspired from your post found
this tidbit.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...0F935A35752C0A
9649C8B63&sec=&spon=

Bill

Last sentence from above URL.

"Two hundred years ago, the pleasure must have been as sweet when a
botanist and a prince -- and possibly they were the same man --
conceived the idea and accordingly decreed that, no matter how dark the
night or how troubled and complex the political situation, on the dinner
table, at least, it thenceforth might as well be spring. "

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