HORATIUS

Lars Porsena of Clusium
By the nine gods he swore
That the great house of Tarquin
Should suffer wrong no more.
By the nine gods he swore it
And named the trying(?) day,
And bade his messengers ride forth
West and East and South and North
To summon his array.
Macaulay   (My book is long gone and my memory is quickly following.)
 
Tim Longville's rewaks today about Scaevola was better than a piece of chocolate cake! Delicious.
I was one of those who suffered through memorizing 'Horatius At The Bridge' - about 1936 I should say. Just wanted to confirm what he had to say about some of us with snow on our tops.
 
However, there is nothing weird, Tom, about calling this plant left-handed. We have grown it at the UCSC Arboretum for years, several forms of it. My favorite one shows a flower that looks as if someone has cut off half of the petals. Everyone comments that it looks as though the plant was ill, deformed, injured. There is a photo of one form in the Australian Native Plant website, but it isn't as good as I had hoped.
I hope I haven't spoiled the fun.
Bill Grant   California
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