"Lazarus Cooke" wrote in message
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What's a vice-county?

Mary


From

http://www.brc.ac.uk/brcMaps.shtm

Biological Records Centre

What is a vice-county?

The system of vice counties was decided upon by H.C. Watson in 1852,
who divided the country into units of roughly equal area for botanical
recording purposes. His system was later extended to Ireland by
Praeger.

Oh, I see, thanks. I've never heard of them.

Why use vice-counties?

Vice counties have been widely adopted by naturalists in preference to
the ever-changing administrative counties. The vice county boundaries
will not move!

Don't speak too soon :-(

It is very useful to us at BRC to have a note of the vice-county as
well as the grid reference with each record. With both, we are able,
using the computer, to check that grid references are not wildly
inaccurate, and to sort records into counties, which is useful when
providing information to county recorders, local records centres and
museums. So - whenever possible - please enter the vice-county, as well
as the grid reference, on your records.

How would I know what my vice county is? And anyway, I LIKE living in
Yorkshire :-)

Mary

L

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On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:05:10 -0000, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:

How would I know what my vice county is? And anyway, I LIKE living in
Yorkshire :-)

and posting to uk.local.yorkshire.moderated?
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Martin

In article ,
(Spider) wrote:

Is it possible that your alkaline soil is on the lean
side?

It's quite sandy but I thoroughly composted the site a few months ahead
of sowing.

Steve Harris - Cheltenham - Real address steve AT netservs DOT com
A useful bit of gardening software at http://www.netservs.com/garden/

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Nick Maclaren wrote:

Some sources say this grows in any reasonable soil while another says it
needs acid soil and that lime can be used against escapees.

It certainly failed to germinate last year in my slightly alkaline soil.

What do urglers find?

That theory is related to the Doctrine of Signatures, and should be
ignored by anyone who regards science as even slightly more reliable
than witchcraft.

It grows perfectly well in my slightly alkaline soil, and is found
wild in all 112 vice-counties of the British Isles. It is a fairly
shy germinator, and I don't get more than half a dozen new seedlings
a year from perhaps a dozen shoots that set seed.

I had a wonderful crop last year in the same kind of soil. Of course it
might be a slightly different variety as I bought it in France as
oseille. But it appears to be hardy - it's still growing in my
allotment.

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"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Mary Fisher wrote:

Dunno, except that it is probably an invention designed for
ecological surveying, slightly smaller and more uniform in size
than a county.

Where did you get the information then - about sorrel in 112 ... /

Clapham, Tutin and Warburg.

Cor. I'm impressed.

slinks away feeling ignorant

Mary


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Mary Fisher wrote:

Dunno, except that it is probably an invention designed for
ecological surveying, slightly smaller and more uniform in size
than a county.

Where did you get the information then - about sorrel in 112 ... /

Clapham, Tutin and Warburg.

Cor. I'm impressed.

slinks away feeling ignorant

Mary


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

"Steve Harris" wrote in message
...
In article ,
(Spider) wrote:

Is it possible that your alkaline soil is on the lean
side?

It's quite sandy but I thoroughly composted the site a few months ahead
of sowing.

Steve Harris - Cheltenham - Real address steve AT netservs DOT com
A useful bit of gardening software at http://www.netservs.com/garden/
Sorrel grows wild on the banks of the lane to our house-soil pH 6.5. It
should grow in the average vegetable patch.
David T.

"Steve Harris" wrote in message
...
In article ,
(Spider) wrote:

Is it possible that your alkaline soil is on the lean
side?

It's quite sandy but I thoroughly composted the site a few months ahead
of sowing.

Steve Harris - Cheltenham - Real address steve AT netservs DOT com
A useful bit of gardening software at http://www.netservs.com/garden/
Sorrel grows wild on the banks of the lane to our house-soil pH 6.5. It
should grow in the average vegetable patch.
David T.

In article ,
Mary Fisher wrote:

Dunno, except that it is probably an invention designed for
ecological surveying, slightly smaller and more uniform in size
than a county.

Where did you get the information then - about sorrel in 112 ... /

Clapham, Tutin and Warburg.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.