Hey mateys, Staila sounds Australian! : ) Or maybe the second most common language in Spain, Catalan? Staila da Aur? How about no-you-can't-get-married-in-this-state-or-march-in-our-St.Patrick's-day-para de Gaelic? (I think I've got several things confused there). Jim McKenney jimmckenney@starpower.net Montgomery County, Maryland, zone 7 where he probably should have listened to the little voice which said "don't go there" At 01:19 PM 1/23/2004 -0500, you wrote: >Jim and Angelo, > >That just goes to show you how weak my Spanish a la Hoosier is. So it >might be ungrammatical Italian. > >At 12:25 PM 1/23/2004 -0500, Jim McK wrote: > >>Well, Jim, maybe you've taught me something: I always thought the name >>Stella de Oro was uncouth Italian! > >But I guess it could also be ungrammatical Spanish! > >At 06:28 PM 1/23/2004 +0100, Angelo wrote: > >>the writing ' Stella de Oro' is nor Spanish neither Italian. If it was >>Italian it would be 'Stella d'Oro', while in Spanish would be 'Estrella de >>Oro ' >> >>Well, you know now a new Italian word in addition to pizza and spaghetti !! > >Now I know a new word in Spanish too, "Estrella". It's amazing what all I >learn in this forum. Why couldn't Walter just have given it a simple name, >like "Goldiger Stern" or "Stern vom Gold"? Who can tell me what language >might call it "Staila da Aur"? (It's not Portuguese.) > >Naming cultivars can be a very hairy business, it seems. Note that bad >grammar and poor spelling are not counted off, nor corrected, in >registration of cultivar names. Not only that, but adherence to the >registration system is purely voluntary, so anyone is free to call Walter >Jablonski's 'Stella de Oro' anything he or she wishes, even 'Stella d'Oro' >which seems to be the most common form of the name used in the nursery and >landscaping trade. > >In parts of the world where STELLA won't grow well, I believe they often >instead grow something else, similar, like 'Happy Returns'. It is a little >taller and a little lighter yellow than 'Stella De Oro', as I recall, but >it also reblooms well. That is certainly true for the warmer parts of >Florida, and probably in Southern California to some extent too. > >They are both yellow, and both depressingly common where they are >used. It's just not a strip mall without some STELLA planted around >it. I've sold a lot of 'Stella de Oro' over the years; thank you, Walter. > >Jim Shields >in central Indiana (USA) where we speak Hoosier, sort of our own version of >bad English > > > >************************************************* >Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 Shields Gardens, Ltd. >P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ >Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA >Tel. ++1-317-867-3344 or toll-free 1-866-449-3344 in USA > >_______________________________________________ >pbs mailing list >pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >