Re: TB: CULT: a question for the British?
- To: i*@onelist.com
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] TB: CULT: a question for the British?
- From: J* C*
- Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 22:17:22 PDT
From: "Jan Clark" <janclarx@hotmail.com>
> > 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?
My grandfather was a british gardener, and used this term Linda. It means
the depth of your average garden spade. The English sometimes turn their
topsoil over 2 'spits' depth, or even further. (I once had topsoil like that
and shifted :-{ ) My father always used this term.
Cheers, Jan
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