Re: New Checklist Symbols
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: New Checklist Symbols
- From: "* P* <j*@aha.ru>
- Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 15:55:38 -0700 (MST)
A bit late, John.
It is April 2 at my computer already.
Juri
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> Pf: John I. Jones <jijones@ix.netcom.com>
> Lpnh: Multiple recipients of list <iris-l@rt66.com>
> Fenb: CAT: New Checklist Symbols
> Dbfb: 2 brtems 1998 z. 2:11
>
> 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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