CAT: New Checklist Symbols
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- Subject: CAT: New Checklist Symbols
- From: "* I* J* <j*@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 15:11:19 -0700 (MST)
Here are some new checklist symbols that would be very helpful in catalogs.
EWM - Easterners Waste of Money... too tender
UP - Unlike Picture
SSF - Stays Single Fan for the life of the plant - often only one year
FWI - Fragrant With Imagination...yours
MNF - Mind Numbing Frafrance...not for indoors
PPS - Pod and Pollen Sterile...hybriderizers delight
DCC - Duplicates Cheaper Cultivar
CRH - Crown Rot Happy
MBC - Minimum Bud Count
TML - Too Much Lace
BNO - Bloom Never Opens (usually in conjunction with TML above)
EEEE - Earliest to bloom - usually in December, then dies in the next frost
STI - Slow To Increase (has something to do with how much you pay for it)
BOS - Bloom out Special
BB - Brown Bagger - bloom so ugly you have to put a bag over it
TBB - A "Two Bagger"...bloom so ugly the second bag goes over your head, in
case the the wind blows the first bag off
IBPP - Insignificant Bloom, Poor Performer...usually reserved for some
candidates for top medal winners
(Adapted from Lois O'Brien who credits Guzinski: Miniartist@AOL.com)
John | "There be dragons here"
| Annotation used by ancient cartographers
| to indicate the edge of the known world.
John Jones, jijones@ix.netcom.com
Fremont, California, USA, Earth, USDA zone 8/9 (coastal, bay)
Max high 95F/35C, Min Low 28F/-2C average 10 days each
Heavy clay base for my raised beds.
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