RE: $$/new intros/survival? (was Convention Matchmakers (NO

My mother was Irish and my father was German, but I have never heard about this superstition.  It's interesting to learn about it now. 
I hope I have not upset anyone by thanking them for a plant.

Ruth Brunty, who has thanked everyone for every plant ever given to her and most are still doing well (because I didn't know).

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Sue Madison said:
My grandmother & all the "flower ladies" I went with her to see, had a
"rule" that you never said "thank-you" for a plant that was given to you.
I encountered this over & over on tours with her.  They said things like,
"I know I shouldn't thank you or it won't grow, but..." other words to
that effect.  Where did this come from??  Sue Madison
****

This seems to be a German custom.  My inlaws are very strict about it, as
is WNYIS's own Anna Rettig, a German immigrant just after WWII.  She will
say, you must not mention the gift -- don't even talk about it! It won't
grow.  She just says, we won't talk about it. and I'm going to give you
thus and so, and she says, here take it, but we're not going to talk about
it!! 
My own family did the same, but without the passion, we're Northern European,
not German..  Superstition, I guess!! But all the stuff from Anna does 
really well!


Carolyn Schaffner in Buffalo, NY
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