Re: Re: CULT: survival and list

In a message dated 9/12/05 11:05:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
lmann@volfirst.net writes:

<<  Any disease/caregiving is a spinoff from the biodiversity of plants and 
habitats the weeds and insect predators provide.  I accidentally"pulled" a fat 
little toad along with a handful of weeds yesterday. He peed all over me.  
Yuck!>>

I adore toads, but you are going to get warts from that toad pee, its common 
knowledge. What is also common knowledge is that you can tell warts to go 
away, and some will obey. The wise scientist Lewis Thomas, in one of his fine 
collections of essays, Lives of a Cell, or The Medusa and the Snail, possibly that 
other one, had a wonderful piece on warts. 
 
 << Anner, I have a lot, and do have the data, but going thru it, updating &
 giving you a number for 5 yr survival is a winter project.  Remind me later 
if I forget.  Rough estimate - 16 to 20 rows with maybe 80? cultivars each, 
wild guess half alive and thriving, who knows how long I've had most of them.  
Started collecting in 1970s & still have several from that era, several hundred 
seedlings now.>>

Linda, it sounds like an article for the Bulletin. I think at some point in 
the not distant future you should publish a progress report, especially since 
your goals and procedures have, as you say, evolved and been refined over the 
years, which people will find interesting, and since you are, if I understand 
you correctly, seeing patterns and deriving data which may be meaningful beyond 
your immediate circumstances.

<< like they say, if you don't share, they won't bloom>>

Exactly.

Anner Whitehead
Richmond VA USA

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