Re: SF Flower & Garden Show

**"* C* <d*@chilitech.net>**

Right. That should be "hOrtulan". Thanks for the catch.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "margaret lauterbach" <melauter@earthlink.net>
To: "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum" 
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Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: [GWL] SF Flower & Garden Show

> At 01:31 PM 3/9/2008, you wrote:
>
>>----- 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
>
> Perhaps it fell out of favor because harts are deer and people are
> tired of deer on their lan.  Margaret Lauterbach
>
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