Re: Best regional garden books

**Bruce Zimmerman b*@gmail.com**

Ya eh!
My name is not Joe but the best beer for killing slugs is BUD and the 
the best beer to drink is any one made in Canada.
Still my favourite( note the proper spelling) regional gardening book 
though it is out of print is Trevor Coles's the
Ontario Gardener. Oh, yes,and any song by Stompn Tom Connors Rocks I 
just love his Real Canadian Girl or his Hockey Song. Anne Marie Van Ness 
do you  remember all this. Glad I could light up your life or at least 
your yard.
Bruce Zimmerman

Dan Clost wrote:

>>Canada: define
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>Sorry- couldn't resist this:
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>It is a sovereign nation north of most of those parts of the U.S.A.you 
>mentioned.  As a people, we are usually an easy-going lot, wandering about 
>under a sky that seems to be uniformly coloured, with a vaguely defined 
>raison-d'etre of being nice to each other.
>We have a lot of stuff you want, including trees, fossil fuels, fresh water 
>and retail customers.
>We have a Queen whom we adore, but are not quite sure what her real function 
>is except to offer a toast and sing an anthem at official mess dinners. We 
>have a Governor General- sort of a representative who actually doesn't have 
>to be from Canada. We have a parliamentary system in which one of the main 
>parties is dedicated to secession from the parent country. In the rest of 
>the world that would be listed under 'treason'. When one of the founding 
>parties of this country was voted out of power (completely unimaginable but 
>it happened) we simply changed the name of the remaining party with the 
>closest ideology to that of the ousted group and carried on. Not necessarily 
>how the rest of the world does things but it works for us.
>We could try and define the various areas of the country by official 
>province and territory but that's just looking at a map. We tend to live in 
>regions and pockets. For example, we could start by explaining the 
>difference between the Maritime provinces and the Atlantic provinces- 
>although the new Confederation Bridge might alter the understanding a titch.
>We could define ourselves by cultural icons you might recognise- Paul Anka, 
>Anne Murray, Shania Twain and Celine Dion- but we don't really consider 
>Celine Canadian. Big Joe Mufferaw was someone Paul Bunyan looked up to. Ben 
>Cartwright was Canadian and that says it all.
>Gosh darn it there are so many ways to define ourselves- all different and 
>all accurate- that I really couldn't take more of this list's time. So I'll 
>just say you'll have to come and visit with us for awhile.
>Start with Newfoundland and Labrador. Like the ad says, "It is as far away 
>from Disneyland as you can get."
>
>G'day, eh
>Dan
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