Dear Dr. Braem:
I was out on vacation and realize this post might be old. Anyhow I do
not want to star another flame.
Why are you so sensitive to any comments that everybody writes?
Why don't you grow up and stop bullying everybody? Although I had a good
laugh every time you wrote an answer, it is
When I lived in Australia, it was poofter. I hope this contributes greatly to
understanding the etymology of the word.
But although this word has a particular meaning, I found it to be hurled at
anyone- from the guy who cut you off in traffic to wayward politicians Hell,
I even heard people's
I'm guessing that USP grade saltpeter is OK to use as a fertilizer component
for orchids. Does anyone know anything to the contrary? (I imagine it's much
more expensive than buying technical grade potassium nitrate in bulk, but
it's readily available here in that form and cheap enough for my
Henry Oakeley
Jean-Marie Vanderwinden
Simon M. Wellinga
Thanks for the help and interest in response to my query about the
illustration published in the Botanical Magazine which, apparently, does
depict the species Anguloa virginalis.
I will be looking forward to the book about Lycaste, Ida and
on 8/22/04 10:26 AM,Dennis wrote:
On an Orchidaceous note, I recently was given Spiranthes sinensis, a plant I
had long desired to have. Will this plant thrive in conditions suitable for
Spiranthes odorata? Specifically, will it handle wet winters?
Thanks,
Dennis Westler
Hello Dennis,
Hello -
I have never knowingly hurled epithets at anyone, or
any group.
I was under the impression that we had ascertained
that a 'woofter' was the large sound-generating round
thing in a lound speaker!
My subscription to the Miriam-Webster
'word-of-the-day' just doesn't include such eclectic
John Stanley wrote:
I haven't followed the entire colour-printing thread and so my comments may
be rather oblique but it does occur to me that many publications could be
produced with an edition online or on CD-ROM. They could have more colour
illustration at magnifiable resolution than is
. By the way, do you
know if can be purchased here in the u.s.? A colored spiranthes would be
very interesting indeed!
This is the second request I have gotten about this!
I got mine in a trade for some bulbs of a nice Pleione formosana clone I
have. The man I traded with has just started
The orchid world has just lost one of the most avid lovers of orchids. Sam
Flagler of Jonesville, TX passed away on August 22, 2004. Some on this list
may have known him. He grew orchids for many years and was very active at
that time in the Shreveport, LA Orchid Society. He then became the
Hello,
Just as an update to my post to culture for spiranthes sinensis, and the
finding I posted that seemed that the species should like wet feet; I have
been told that since there are several species in a very large area that are
called sinensis, some of them, maybe more likely the very warm
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