What' about the first garden?

Ina Crossley klazina1@gmail.com
Thu, 13 Feb 2014 13:33:06 PST
I just got your message Jude.

I use gmail but through Thunderbird. When I reply, I just highlight what 
I don't want and type what I do want.  Which doesn't work until I am 
actually on the reply message.

Ina

Ina Crossley
Auckland New Zealand zone 10a

On 14/02/2014 6:40 a.m., Jude Haverington wrote:
> Could somebody please confirm that my messages are coming through? I am not
> getting them back to myself.
>
> Also, for any GMAIL users - how can I change the subject line? Thanks!
>
>
> 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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