Re: CULT: OT: clorox - chemistry, horse's mouth-

Anner Wrote:>
>Good grief! You don't need that book.That's 4.5 parts to the hundred of sal=
t,
>a chemical formula even this little black duck can recognize. And, speaking
>as the victim of a seemingly endless liberal arts education, history teache=
s
>that that commodity is what Scipio Africanus, or whoever it was, used to
>topdress Carthage, thus rendering the soil of that great city unfit for
>agriculture to modern times.=20
>
>Someone knowledgeable kindly explain why I need not worry my addlepated
>little head about nasty buildup from general horticultural use of this stuf=
f,
>please.=20
>
Because it presumably rains where you live:) Suffering through the same=
 drought that Rima is, the presumably is a not necessarily valid assumption.=
 The rainwater leaches the salt out of the topsoil. Since North Africa is=
 not known for its rain showers, this doesn't happen as quickly there. I=
 was, however, under the impression that orange groves are currently planted=
 on the site of Carthage. But it does bother me when people recommend large=
 quantities of salt as an organic weed killer. The quantities it takes to be=
 effective will take many years to leach out, even here.

To get back on topic, last Sunday I went to the Albany iris sale. I picked=
 up a little rhizome labelled:
ECLADOR
pale yellow self
=46rench DM

I was under the impression DM stood for Dykes Medal, but nothing remotely=
 close showed up on the HIPS web page Dykes Medal table. Could somebody=
 check for a year of introduction?

Kay Cangemi
Cangemi@mhv.net
New York, USDA zone 5

You pull the iris out,
You put the iris in,
You pull the iris out, and you shake it all about.
You do the hokey-pokey and then cut them into pieces
That's what its all about!
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