OT:CHAT 'flags'
- Subject: OT:CHAT 'flags'
- From: S*@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 10:14:43 EST
From: StorYlade@aol.com
In a message dated 3/5/1999 8:02:12 AM Central Standard Time,
bmatney@mail.snider.net writes:
<< Here in rural Arkansas (both in the north where I was born and central
where I live now) TB's are still called "flags". >>
Beth,
It get's even more interesting than that. When I was a child growing up in
Clay County AR, people said 'flag' when pointing to the old double orange
daylilly that grew on every corner.
Years later, my father-in-law, who had worked in a nursery in Kansas City and
came to hate all flowers, referred to anything in the iris/daylilly family as
'flags.' He became outraged when I started growing irises. After all, you
can't eat them. When I gave a box of AIS's best to my mother-in-law, his
wife, they grew for one year down the side of the vegetable garden and then he
ripped them out. They bloomed one season. (Still in Clay County.)
Betty Wilkerson from Bowling Green, KY and waiting for the next warm spell.
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