What' about the first garden?

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Thu, 13 Feb 2014 13:35:50 PST
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On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:34 AM, William Aley <aley_wd@me.com> wrote:

> Speaking of garden origins, Interesting investigation by Dr. Francrsca 
> Stavrakopoulu  about the origins of the Garden of Eden.
>
> BBC. Bible's Buried Secrets 3. The Real Garden of Eden
>
> 05/2012
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=zGhXjExkcKs
>
>
>
> Across the beltway from Jim
> and in Snow as well
>
> William Aley
> Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, USDA zone 7
>
> On Feb 13, 2014, at 9:39 AM, Jim McKenney <jamesamckenney@verizon.net>
> wrote:
>
> > The Garden Handbook by Mary Rutherford Jay, Harper and Brothers, 
> > 1931, a
> collection of photographs and short essays, has a section discussing 
> and illustrating dooryard gardens. Most of these are drawn from the 
> upscale end of the spectrum.
> >
> > Jim McKenney
> > Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, USDA zone 7,where about a foot of 
> > snow
> buried the garden (and my dooryard garden) last night.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sunday, February 9, 2014 2:49 AM, Lee Poulsen 
> > <wpoulsen@pacbell.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > The usage in which I first encountered the word dooryard and saw it 
> > used
> the most thereafter was in descriptions of fruit tree varieties 
> recommended for ordinary people to try growing in their yards by the 
> local county agricultural extension agent. It was used to distinguish 
> some varieties that should only be tried around the home as opposed to 
> the main varieties that were recommended for both commercial growers and
homeowners.
> >
> > --Lee Poulsen
> > Pasadena, California, USA - USDA Zone 10a Latitude 34°N, Altitude 
> > 1150 ft/350 m
> >
> >
> > On Feb 8, 2014, at 5:03 PM, Bill Richardson <ixia@dcsi.net.au> wrote:
> >
> >> dooryard
> >>
> >> The exterior area of a home surrounding the most commonly used 
> >> entryway, typically the driveway area; A logical extension of 
> >> "barnyard," "back yard"
> >> and "front yard," it is likely that this compound word grew out of 
> >> a necessity to distinguish working areas from living areas. In a 
> >> practice common to the region, homes were attached to barns and 
> >> other out-buildings; dooryard identifies the exterior area of a 
> >> home not given over to
> farming.
> >> A
> >> household word in the County, dooryard is seldom heard elsewhere.
> >>
> >> "Buddy does a good job of plowin' out th' dooryard."
> >>
> >> Bill Richardosn
> >> Ixiaking
> >> Australia
> >
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