TB: CULT: a question for the British?
- To: Iris-talk
- Subject: TB: CULT: a question for the British?
- From: L* M*
- Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 12:14:39 -0700
From: Linda Mann <lmann@icx.net>
>From the HIPS page - quote from an article in the BIS Yearbook, 1942:
> Bearded Flag Irises-An Initial Thirty.
> BY F. WYNN HELLINGS.
......
> The third (my present)
> garden has a good top soil but this is only one spit in depth, the subsoil being an infertile kind of
> brick earth.
Just exactly how deep do you suppose this person spits? I am used to
making estimates of metric conversions, but this is a new unit of
measure for me - can anybody tell me how many inches are in a spit?
I assumed this was humor at first, but then I wondered if maybe there is
an obscure ME unit of measure, perhaps pictish in origin...
Linda Mann
bemused by the universe and definitely enjoying my vacation week
puttering around.
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