Re: CAT:: Color Pictures
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CAT:: Color Pictures
- From: d*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 08:39:01 EDT
In a message dated 5/15/2001 5:55:56 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
ptyerman@ozemail.com.au writes:
> ...... particulary when you read some of the descriptions. I don't know
> WHERE they get some of their words. I think that the people who write the
> descriptions must have a Thesaurus with them at all times (please no-one
> take offence at
> that........ but there are some particularly amazing descriptions . . . .
>
> Paul, that's the name of the game. . I farmed for 12 years and ordered 95%
> of my seeds bulk from catalogs. . the descriptions were . . .just so
> blatantly overblown. It took me a couple years to read past the flowery,
> adjective bloated crap and not be swayed by it. I would buy and then just
> shake my head in disbelief at the results that germinated! Sometimes I
> actually thought I had the wrong seeds and voiced my complaints to the
> company. . .(and was assured that indeed, I had the correct seeds). . go
> figure!!!
>
Doris Elevier, El Paso, TX Zone 7, AHS 9-10 Hot, dry, AND windy.
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