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Old 08-10-2008, 09:10 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Unknown Plants (Do you recognise them?)

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Anne Welsh Jackson wrote:
Dave Hill wrote:

I got 18 of them, but not down to variety,
I think that Dave Pool deserves a Prize for such detailed answers,
at least a good bottle of Malt.
Asking for ident of 2 or 3 is fair enough but a list like that is
almost a case of Spam.


Or at least a severe case of laziness?

I got about half of them, but didn't feel disposed to answer.
It's not as if this is the first time...

How did we identify plants in the days before computers?

We searched through books - or that's what _I_ did!


Some of us still do! I use both mechanisms, depending ....


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.