HYB: Controversy and Disgust
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- Subject: HYB: Controversy and Disgust
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- Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 09:20:21 -0500
From: Mike Lowe <mlowe@worldiris.com>
SAIDA BINT Dr. G. B. Loveridge, St. Ives, N.S.W. Australia. I don't
know where Dr. L would have encountered 'Saida' unless he was
knocking around Algeria in WW2. (entirely probable) He had a series
of SAIDA named iris.
The O.E.D. gives a shipbuilding reference and lists it as obsolete in
the 17th century. Webster ducks it. The Random House 2nd. ed.
unabridged gives: Bint: n. Brit. Slang (disparaging and offensive), a
woman or girl. Partridge's 'Slang Cant and Unconventional English' is
a bit explicit for this list.
I heard it used while on R & R in Brisbane in the 60s. I was
extremely surprised to encounter it while scanning and proofing the
1979 Check List.
In the reblooming world, Lady Emma (F. Jones, '86) has occasioned
more lines of print and generated more heated discussion than perhaps
any other reblooming cultivar. This because it often goes out of
class. Despite this, it is one of the most widely grown and popular
MTBs ever. Until recently, it was almost the ONLY remontant MTB.
Cheers,
Mike, mlowe@worldiris.com -- http://www.worldiris.com
South Central Virginia, USA; USDA Zone 7A
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