Thanks for getting the joke, gardengal. It was a pleasure to demonstrate that I can troll my own response better than anyone else can. Of course Sequoiadendron is much hardier. But the problem is it is also much more suspectible to disease caused by our muggy summer conditions. If you were to blend the Mason-Dixon line with the new USDA zn 6/zn 7 line, you would get an approximation of the east coast boundary between areas where Sequoia (coastal redwood) and Sequoiadendron could be grown on the east coast. Sequoia south of it, obviously, and Sequoiadendron north of it. Even north of the Mason-Dixon line, the several Sequoiadendron at zn 7 Planting Fields arboretum looked pretty bad. OTOH I'm pretty sure I saw one at a garden in Carlisle, PA, zn 6, that looked reasonably well. Nights there are probably a wee bit cooler, and I suspect you could grow them all the way down to Georgia on the highest mountain tops that stay in the 50s at night. Go too far north though, even zn 7 is still going to be too cold for Sequoias. One supposes that the Polly Hill arboretum, for example, has tried them and they aren't on the plant list for a reason. (still meaning to email them about strange tales of a monkey puzzle that dies back in some years yet persists)

I don't think I have ever been influenced by color names. Other than the most used media for my art, but they never change names other than adding new colors. Am very visual and the color itself wins, never the name. How much are we paying these marketeers to come up with names? Admission I bought a ton of upholstery fabric with the name sorghum, which looked and sounded like a long ago syrup loved. But it turned out to be a deep majestic purple rather than an amber hue. Thankfully my daughter loves purple. Not much creativity or marketing pull with the name, other than pulling me in.

It's exciting!! I spent a lot of time searching for relatives as soon as I heard PA was indexed!! So much fun! Joann

Bear in mind that for some years, the two sides of the same street are in different enumeration districts. My father's family is not on the 1940 Census, either. The odd-numbered houses on that street are in one enumeration disrict, and the even-numbered houses are in another. Problem is, however, that the enumerator who walked the ED with the even-numbered houses didn't go to that street at all. None of the even-numbered houses show up anywhere on the 1940 Census. Luckily for me, I know the names, birth dates, etc., of everyone living there at that time, but for someone who likes to have sources for everything, it's quite frustrating. So, if you know the address, make sure that you are looking in the correct enumeration district. And don't rely on a name search because the indexers don't always get it right (even when it's so obvious that they're wrong), and the enumerators don't always write it down correctly, either. You'd be amazed at the misspellings I've seen. Once you know the correct ED, pull up the pages for that ED and look at every line on every page. Once you've found the correct street, then look for the house number.