Fwd: Let's Streak AUCTION item #58 ***Special Seed Offer***
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- Subject: Fwd: Let's Streak AUCTION item #58 ***Special Seed Offer***
- From: W*
- Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 07:44:38 -0500
*Special Hosta Seed Offer 2000*
RE: HL AUCTION item #58, hosta-seed (Let's Streak + free bonus Big Blue &
White) line-bred H. 'Ryan's Big One'.
>*PLEASE BE ADVISED*
>I've received some enquiries with various suggestions, wants, needs and so
>on. BTW ..Bob Axmear was the high AUCTION item #58 bidder
>($55.00). Yesterday, was my first day back at work after a Christmas
>Vacation from my Post Office job and Bob's seed purchase was mailed off!
>
>Now? ..as a small token of MY'appreciation to Bob, for the organizational
>structures he is working to create & expand -- the seed envelope mailed to
>Bob Axmear today is a *FREE GIFT* as my way of saying "thanks Bobby", from
>his #1 Gal "Miss Lucy Canon" singin "ah'wanna'bee'bobby's'girl?"
><lol> This means, the monies coming into the *Hosta Library* from seed
>suctioned Item #58 is ZERO! ..however?...
>
>If!!! ..the majority here, ..do wish to see an expansion of the Internet
>Hosta Library? ...and what I'm talking about here is: to include all
>popular shade tolerant ornamental flowers (shrubs included) and not even
>to exclude the idea of a formation of a *Shade Garden Society?* -- then I
>am prepared to offer the following seed-trade-deal to everyone here? -->
>
>*Let's Streak "special selections 1999*
>1) ...all proceeds from the sale of this seed shall be donated; and I
>personally, shall pick up the cost of packaging and postage.
>2) ...One teaspoon of seed (about 50 seeds) = $15.00 (Fifteen American
>Dollars) and this is the minimum purchase price, packaging & postage
>included. Each additional teaspoon of *Let's Streak* seed is $5.00 more
>per teaspoon.
>3)... The following Bonus-seed thrown in free:
> (a) ..*Big Blue & White* ..Line Bred seed of H.'Ryan's Big
> One' - F2 generation (one teaspoon).
> (b) ..*Late Flowering Seed Mixture* collected in 1995, by
> Alex Summers of Bridgeville Delaware. At that time, there were 1800
> different hosta-types growing at Honeysong Farm. This seed has been
> stored *FROZEN* for more than five years, since it's collection, and I
> would like you to see how well hosta seed sprouts, when it has been
> stored in suspended animation "IN A FREEZER" (frozen state), even after
> five years?
>4)... Due to limited quantity in stock (full pint of each seed type
>offered here?) therefore, this is being done on a *first-come? ..first
>served!* basis; and I shall notify all, when the *Let's Streak* jar is empty.
>
>**IMPORTANT NOTE*** about ordering and paying for same:
> Anyone wanting the seed offered above, should send an e-mail privately
> to the Email Address below:
>
>"Special Seed Offer" <raffi@sympatico.ca>
>
> >>--subnote-->> in your email? ..please specify how many teaspoons of
> *Let's Streak* you want ($15.00 for first teaspoon) and $5.00 for each
> additional tsp. The free bonus factor is one teaspoon per
> customer. Please include your full name and lettermail address, where
> the seed is to go?
>-- all proceeds from these seed-sales! ..are hereby donated to the
>Internet Library; Payment should be sent to it's owner Bob Axmear
>-- and cheques made payable to same.
>-- Upon notification, from Bob, that the payment has been received, and/or
>from a buyers e-mail to me, that the money has been sent, then I will mail
>out the seed.
>
>With regard to the matter of whether or not an *Internet Shade Garden
>Society* is formed, or not formed; I personally couldn't care less what is
>decided hence -- there are "NO STRINGS ATTACHED TO MY OFFER HERE"! Simply
>stated, I am supporting the Internet Library organizational expansions
>being discussed back and forth by various parties, wifh different views it
>seems; and the support I am giving <=is=> carte blanche? My'Motto has
>alway been do as U please! ...so please do?
>
>and I trust we'll have a lotta fun in process
>
>By way of special entertainment>> "WARNING: Don't ever? ..eat icicles!"
>..see digital-image attached "icicles.jpg" ..14.9 K'byte filesize "seems
>everybody around me is sick since the icicles appeared"? <g> :))
love from Miss Lucy Canon
aka WiN = William Nash aka...
Icicles.jpg
the'SHADOW'gardener
personal Web-site>> http://www3.sympatico.ca/raffi
E-mail> "William Nash" <raffi@sympatico.ca>
Lettermail> 157 Harvard Road, Guelph, ON, CA N1G4L3
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