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Re: SF Flower & Garden Show

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Debra Lee Baldwin" <Sunwriter7@cox.net>

> In the spirit of Catriona's posting on godwottery, I would like to
> introduce a word to our collective vocabulary: hortable = notable
> horticulturist.

Another word from the same root -- though you need a really big dictionary 
like the OED to find it -- is hartulan, meaning of or relating to the 
garden. It's a very useful word. I don't understand why it went out of 
favor.

D 

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