Re: on Japanese beetle and other plagues

At 01:20 PM 7/29/2002 -0400, you wrote:

If you like books and can find an old copy, a new one would not feel as good
in your hands, read "My summer in the Garden" by Charles Dudley Warner.
I agree - I have a first edition in my collection - excellent. "What a man needs most in gardening is a cast-iron back with a hinge" etc etc. You won't learn anything from him but you'd be greatly amused.

He muses on petitioning the Ecumenical Council issue a "bull" of
excommunication against "pusley" whatever that might be.  The word bull is
some irony, I think.
I always thought he was referring to a "papal bull" - a formal pronouncement from the pope that is usually sealed with a leaden "bulla" or seal. It would fit in that he's asking the EC excommunicate.

Doug

Doug Green
Author of the award winning "Gardening Wisdom"
See gardening articles at http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com

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