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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 09:55:56 GMT
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- From: M.E.Bennun@CEN.EX.AC.UK
- Subject: Re: CTRL-Zs & gardening
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- In-Reply-To: <11286.9301042030@cen.ex.ac.uk>; from "M. Roy Harris" at Jan 4,
- 933:19 pm
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- M. Roy Harris wrote........
- >
- >
- >
- > 2) Gardening: This has nothing to do with NB, but we have a fair
- > number of subscribers in the UK, one of whom may know the answer
- > to this gardening question.
- >
- > There was a report on the radio this morning concerning some
- > newly discovered healthful properties of the purlane plant --
- > e.g., it's very high vitimin E content. Purslane is generally
- > considered a weed here in Virginia, %but I visited a woman in
- > Broadstairs, England some years back who showed me the plant in
- > her kitchen garden and told me that it was excellent in salads.
- > The _OED_ says that it is also occasionally eaten as a potherb,
- > adding that it is not much grown nowadays. Does any of our
- > English readers know if an English seedsman offers an improved
- > garden variety of purslane?
- >
- >
-
- Who cares about work - this is far more interesting!
-
- I'll ask She Who Makes Chutney, whose knowledge about these things is
- encyclopaedic - she also makes the best salads in the world.
-
- One advantage in living in Devon is that the rural nature of the
- countryside and the mild climate (hysterical, wild, cynical, sneering
- and bitter laughter) makes for vast local resources in the Garden
- Centres, and the information should be readily available from one of
- them. You could try writing to Bernaville Nurseries, Three
- Horseshoes, Cowley, Exeter EX5 5EU - one of the best and biggest.
-
- I heard a robin this morning - high out of the reach of my three
- avicidal cats - explaining the current political situation in great
- and lengthy detail. Staking out territory early in the year, I
- thought...?
-
- It's a dank, drizzly, heavily grey, vaguely mild day here.... oh, how
- I miss the sun. Devon and Cornwall are supposed to be the warmest
- parts of mainland Britain, and it does not snow much, but the endless
- grey is very hard. You oudjies in Pretoria and the Eastern Cape - tell
- us about it! Seriously, has the drought broken?
-
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- Mervyn E. Bennun, Law Department, University of Exeter
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