"country roads, take me home, to the place I belong"
- Subject: "country roads, take me home, to the place I belong"
- From: B* N*
- Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 23:04:42 -0400
Dear Sir <<er'whoops, typing-hurry error there, ah'meant Jimbo'sir>> THE
*WIZARD OF AH's*, and did you know somebody has named a hosta *Wizard of
AH's* <-> awe forget it h'AWE'zy & how's Harriet?
thank ya kindly for your witty & wistful word-throwing methods, Jim, and
did ah'tell'ya: I just loves it, when I sees a scientist at heart,
switching back & forth from a formal & dry writing skill; over to, a very
upside down & backward kinda style of SLANG WRITING ...for the sake of
humour <sp. "HUMOR" in US of A> ..it just makes one's heart sing...."
There is perhaps, someone amongst us, who is for sure: a *PURIST AT HEART*
and I dare not write whom I'm referring to. ;)) PURE? ..to whit! <lol>
BTW Jimmy ...I wanna'sincerely thank'ya, for the ride of my lifetime, up
those country roads in West Virgin'EEE <directions you gave us?> Rose,
whose turn it was to drive, was not impressed at all, with my singing the
late John Denver tune "country roads" as the road-side cliffs with no guard
rails, went flying by us, during a very rainy & lightning day. I simply
LOVED! ..this roller coaster car-ride? ..it woke me'mind right up!
...thanks again good bud? - this one's for U!
:-B))
<-- and pertaining to Mumbo Jumbo from Jimbo below-->
At 07:35 PM 07/01/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Bill,
>
>Your posts are always entertaining, Bill. Since this was your intent, you
>have succeeded in making us all laugh or at least smile.
>
>There have been worse things that have happened in the
>commercialization of hostas than what you have suggested..i.e. labelling
>green reversions of variegated hostas by the progenitor name. While a
>"purist" might frown on this, who among us is pure? See, I can be
>entertaining too.
>
>BTW, I and others, I'm sure, enjoyed your photo of the red hosta in
>Canada.. Of course, I saw it in person when you traveled to Maryland
>before the convention. Nice to hear from you.
>Jimbo
>.......................................................................................................................................
>
>Bill Nash wrote:
>
> > Jimbo (Wizard of AH's) aka Jim Hawes ..firstly "Welcome home!"
> (to'Florida that is and U needs a good Cabana-boy right? <g>) ..and
> ya'better points your fan Northward JImmy, cuz our temps be droppin
> quickly; and the north west wind of today, haz freezin my b'AHS OFF, so
> I'm besides this computer, simply tryin to warm up? ;))
> >
> > *SERIOUS BUSINESS NOW re: "LABELLING THOSE REVERSED MUTATIONS?"*
> > JIM HAWES WROTE: << "I think the key to understanding the meaning
> of this question is to look into
> > the historical basis to prove whether a parent of a given sport has the
> same clonal relationship to a parent of another sport in question. My hunch is
> > that if we could prove historical clonal relationships of the parents
> of sports in question, we might be able to prove that sports in question are
> > identical because of this clonal background similarity....i.e the
> parents may be historical clones which is the basis for the similarity
> (or better,
> > the identicality). "
> >
> > IDENTICALITY = Biology. Of or relating to a twin or twins developed
> from the same fertilized ovum and having the same genetic makeup and
> closely similar appearance {good wording there Jim'Bo}
> >
> > MY QUESTION; and I believe this has come up several times previously,
> but I don't recall what the final conclusion on this debate was exactly?
> ..nor do I care!
> >
> > *REVERSED MUTATIONS? <-> and labelling them, as same (by their pedigree
> & clock coloring criteria!)!*
> >
> > PREAMBLE; and here is, an example of what I do do: for example, when I
> propagate certain named hosta-types for the purpose of selling them
> wholesale to Nurseries. I am not in the habit of culling (trashing?)
> named plants, which I paid my good & hard earned cash-money for/to
> acquire new hostas, so here's some examples:
> > 1) June hosta ...reverts back to it's green parental form, so a
> *Halcyon* label goes on it and it is sold as same!
> > 2) Great Expectations ...the reverse-sporting moves back to all green =
> H. seiboldiana Elegans label goes on it and they are moved out likewise.
> > 3) Undulata Univitata ...becomes a stable green = sold as Erromena!
> > 4) Choko Nishiki/on stage ..green revertion = are sold as straight
> montanas; 12 oclock color position.
> > 5) Etcetera... and so forth... by leaf coloring, the hosta wheel
> formulas and pedigrees of the hostas?
> >
> > Conclusion ...I personally don't care, what anyone thinks about my
> labelling procedures <<it's just a hobby to me?>>and since, I'm not about
> to begin, to grow any hostas for several years; and then, go about
> trashing them because they reverted into one of it's parental forms, or
> another <--and--> I don't see any problem, with this kind of
> label-maneuvering? ..done on purpose! -- DO YOU? LOL!
> > THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS MATTER:
> > Whether the Patriot mutation, sitting at 10/11 oclock by it's
> leaf coloring, is labelled Loyalist, or "fire n' ice" <-> DOES ANYONE
> HONESTLY THINK! ..anybody, really cares? The Buyer and/or
> seller-nursery, for example, want a nice white medio-hosta when they
> bought/sold it, so do you seriously think they care if we even labelled
> it *NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS* for that matter; and particularly when, the
> Nursery sees/meets their 1000 per cent marked-up retail-pricing; and the
> consumer, got the white centered hosta, desired in the first place?
> >
> > the above, is simply my viewpoint, the way I see it, from where I'm
> sitting: and that's exactly how it's done here! ..thank you very much?
> >
> > :-Bb))
> > "to label or not to label" <<a Billy'bub Shakespearean_pun>>
> >
> > ps ...there are no signs at my place reading *HOSTAS FOR SALE* and I
> don't sell any hostas! I do do a lotta horse-trading tho' <-> with
> hostas that is? ..and foolin around to! It's just a game to me <<not a
> business - I do have a full time jog>>: to kick-away the boredom of
> having nuttin better to do? BTW ...This is a long weekend in Canada, so
> what else would I do for fun & laughter, if I didn't have a quad'zillion
> hosta labels to make & play with for y'all? *LOL*
> >
> > They tell me, hired help does mis'label, but then, I have no hired help
> here ...just a one-man Donkey! ...no riders allowed? "tata" &
> "gid'dee'yup ya'ole mule"?
>
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