The specialty mail-order nursery seems to have been well established before the Civil War. Definitely by 1900, a pretty close relative of the mail order business as we know it existed. Nurseries would place ads in magazines, offering free catalogs for the asking. Customers would mail in orders, and receive plants by mail. Since there were no agricultural inspections in those days, international mail order was simply a matter of money, time, and interest. Unfortunately, there don't seem to be many old catalogs available on the web. Old horticultural magazines are findable in a hit or miss manner. You may want to look at scanned copies of 'Meehan's Monthly', a horticultural magazine put out by Meehan & Sons nursery of Germantown, PA. Among other things, they sold conifer cultivars.

I was so busy at work yesterday I forgot to go get the ribbon, poooh. I hung three in my sunroom and even with out the ribbon they look good. Rosie these are pretty heavy , I'd need a darn strong tree to hang them on.When I got to the thrift store a guy was just leaving with about a dozen large plastic ornaments, I would have loved those for my big tree outside. Here's a pic of three inthe sunroom, Here's a pic of a little friend of mine who stays all winter long here. I make sure my feeder is thawed and ready for him, there's two actually, when I am in the yard they dive bomb me and fight over the feeder, Cindy

Ok ..... you asked for it. Page 56, fifth sentence (in this case it's the fourth complete sentence but it's the last one on the page) says: Declaration issuance -- Where, on application in prescribed form to the Commissioner by the holder of a license granted under section 39 in respect of a medicine to which this section applies and after providing the patentee to which the license relates with a reasonable opportunity to be heard, the Commissioner finds that the patentee is not, after the seven years referred to in paragraph (3)(a) and at the time the application is being considered, making the medicine in Canada for the purposes of completely or substantially supplying the Canadian market for that medicine, the Commissioner shall forthwith, by order, declare that, effective on the coming into force of the order, any holder of a license granted under section 39 to make that medicine may under that license make that medicine. From: Patent Legislation and Commentary by Roger T. Hughes 2005 Edition (it's section 39.16(4) of the pre-1989 Patent Act) Top THAT for dryness! :-)

I missed this thread ... glad it came back up. My husband and I are avid fans. I tried out for Jeopardy! around the time granjan did -- at least ten years ago, when it was still being made in the Burbank area. I took the test and was one of the three selected that day for an interview. We played a mock game on a mock set and I did as well as the other two. They told us if we weren't contacted by August, that was it. We'd have to try out all over again for the following season. They also warned us that many teachers and students apply for the show, but the producers want contestants from as wide a variety of occupations as possible. I assume that worked against me, since I am a teacher. (Okay, maybe it was my personality.) They never got in touch. At any rate, I didn't try out again. I was so happy to get the interview, that was enough for me! My friend's mother was actually on Jeopardy! (senior tournament, she didn't win) and we all went to watch. That's where I learned more about the show. Alex was pleasant to everyone, even the go-fers. The audience has to be really quiet -- it's very hard to sit there and not shout out answers (like we do at home). As I recall they were taping 5 shows that day, so the contestants had to have changes of clothes, as mariannese mentioned. Besides literature, facts about Canada, U.S. presidents and state capitals are heavily featured.