Re: TB: 'mart irises & and Other Hideous Practices
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] TB: 'mart irises & and Other Hideous Practices
- From: B* S*
- Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 09:07:57 -0400
From: Bill Shear <BILLS@hsc.edu>
>A week or so earlier, I had commented to the gate attendant in the garden
>section that a group of bedding plants needed watering. She stuck her nose
>in the air and said, "No, they're sick." Well, I wanted to tell her that
>she'd be sick too, if someone withheld water as long as they had from those
>poor plants, BUT I didn't. No point. (The problem was obvious--to me. You
>see enough wilted plants and you kinda recognize a wilted plant.)
>
>You'd think they'd get someone who knows plants to work there? Like in the
>TV ads?
Must be endemic to Walmart. Here in Farmville, all the plants, regardless,
are put out in full sun on the parking lot to bake and burn, with nary a
drop of water. A late frost also took off a lot of their stock. I suspect
that thousands of dollars worth in retail value are lost because of the
ignorance of the "experts" who have been hired to tend the plants. You'd
think that simple economics would dictate using some care to protect their
investment.
Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.
Bill Shear
Department of Biology
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
(804)223-6172
FAX (804)223-6374
email<bills@hsc.edu>
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