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On the Trail of the Banshee
Comments (53)There is an alternative to genetic studies for determining ancestry of a puzzling cross. I'm interested in hardy citrus, and I keep finding parallels between citrus and roses. Both include tropical, subtropical, and temperate species that have been crossed all kinds of ways. The example I have in mind is the Yuzu, a tart citrus fruit prized by Japanese cooks with a loose sweet edible skin. It is much hardier than most citrus. A number of crosses have been made between Citrus inchangensis and Satsuma resulting each time in something remarkably like Yuzu. It's true that when you make a cross so wide that the result is ovule sterile, as seems the case with Banshee, that you seem to get a lot of sports. We have assumed that the variations in Banshee are sports, but what if some of them are the same cross repeated? What could we try crossing to see if we can get Banshee again? The candidates I would consider would be our various native species and damasks, centifolias, gallicas. When you are out in your garden in spring, if you want an excuse to spend a bit more time there, you might want to do some deliberate pollination by one of these species onto one of the others that you know makes hips. Mark the blossom stem in case it makes a hip. If it does, be sure to include what the pollen was if you are doing several crosses. Experts go through a lot of trouble to keep the bees away and to get ripe pollen, but I think this is a fine job for some of us worthless lackadaisical wannabees to do our stuff. All we want is some seed from one plant that makes seedlings that look nothing like the parent. If you don't mind sowing some virginiana seed in hopes that you'll find one extremely different seedling, it won't matter all that much if the bees got to the flower too. (Although it might be better if the flower can't find anything except the weird foreign pollen you added.) If a couple of years from now someone on this forum says hey, I crossed this and that and one of the seedlings is looking a lot like Banshee, we will all sit up and take notice. Then others will try the same cross and maybe we'll prove, us simple amateurs, something that has had us wondering for a long time. One or two of the big name rose people who pay attention to something besides HT's will eventually write it up in a book and we'll all have to find some other mystery to solve....See Moredo you know how much----is wasted?
Comments (21)susie53 -- Yes, and the receipts from the grocery store are overly lengthy. Are you supposed to think you got MORE for your money because the receipt is a yard long? If I'd kept all the Citi American Express card offers we've gotten this winter I could paper the back hall. Stop already! Since his father's death in the late 1940's my DH has received a government check for $1.89 every month. DH is beneficiary of an insurance policy his father took out when he served in WWI. It took us years to get them to issue just an annual check. I wonder how many other people are getting checks are worth less than they cost to issue and mail. (How many government employees spend their days overseeing this waste?)...See MoreFrom old home to new - or new to old? What does it feel like?
Comments (30)I love old houses - the quality, the history (I was THRILLED when I saw the names of the owners of our then under 5 year old house on the 1930 census), and the style. If I don't win the lottery, I will never live in another "new" build (80's and up) because the vast majority of non custom built homes are just not up to my standards. Of the 4 new builds I lived in in my life, only two were decent. The last decent one had been built by a guy who had previously done commercial building. It was built to last and I have no doubt that one would still stand after a tornado. Because of the commercial background, the finish "prettyness" wasn't there, but those details were added later, by us. The last new build was a nightmare. The "quality" semi custom build was so lacking that I can't even imagine how much worse some of the mass produced really poor quality houses will last. Within the first 5 years the deck was partially rotting (no flashing between the house and it), the roof leaked at the chimney, many of the windows wouldn't work well and/or leaked at the top, lots of the trim wood was rotting out and the floors of both 1st and 2nd floor creaked in almost every spot as did the entire staircase. And then of course you had the "minor" issues like one couldn't use a hairdryer in the master bath before resetting the outlet in the upstairs bath if someone had used a hairdryer in it before the master bath. And the defective shingles requiring a complete reroof at 3 years is hard to forget. My brother has a friend who last year moved into a house in one of those new mass built neighbourhoods in South Carolina. Brand new. 6 months after moving in, a water pipe junction burst (iirc, they thought it hadn't been correctly connected or something) in the attic while they were on vacation and ruined most of the house and their items. The builder denied responsibility and the insurance company was blaming it on the builder since the house was still under "warranty" and it was turning into a huge mess, to say the least. New does not equal free of work and I'd rather strip wallpaper than deal with finding out what corners were cut....See MorePossible shortage of vegetables
Comments (97)Currently on the shelves around here it depends on the store what's available. In the smaller chain local market the fresh produce is pretty good- got big avocados on sale for rather cheap considering the time of year around here, the frozen section sort of wiped out- they just had a great sale on frozen last week and I went to the store before truck day. The tinned was rather depleted too, tinned soups was kind of sparse, but dry soups were more plentiful again. Tinned tomato product was looking more replenished. Canned dry beans was about average, dry dry beans were back on the shelves in limited varieties. In the larger chain store the produce was pretty well stocked as usual. The price on their tomatoes was a bit up- kind of interesting since they have their own indoor grow facility for those and have them year round. The frozen section was looking OK. Tinned vegetables were pretty well stocked too, but the tinned soups was really depleted. Lots of kinds missing, and what was there really spread out to make the shelves look filled. Dry soups were good, but the bullion shelf was low. Tinned tomato product was very well stocked. Canned dry beans OK, dry dry beans in more plentitude and limited variety. I've been working on getting my dehydrated and home canned goods up to stock for the year. This isn't new for me, it's a habit I've had for years. Got a couple kinds of jelly/jam, three kinds of pickled carrots, and a batch of homemade enchilada sauce dehydrated for powdering yesterday. Once the tomatoes really start coming in, I'l set up the grinder and start canning up tomato product. That is something else I noticed the last time I went out too- lack of canning jars/supplies in a lot of places that are normally almost overstocked at this time of year. I wanted a case of wide mouth quarts and had a bit of a time finding them though normally they are common....See Morekfca37
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