wow! I ran it through Babelfish just for fun....get this: Description: Small Orchidee with thick-fleshy sheets. On an up-increasing Rhizom Trichoceros trains antennifera the new Bulbe. The roots are amazingly thick fleshy. At the Bulb finished placed Trichoceros forms antennifera the bloom impulse, which carries or few blooms. Trichoceros antennifera grows in nature both semi - terrestrial, epiphytisch and litophytisch. Altogether in all plant parts more largely than Trichoceros muralis. A characteristic of all Trichoceros - kinds it is that the bloom acts like a female insect. The male insect is misled in such a way that it places dusting with the Begattungsversuch reliably. Culture: Due to the altitude and the climbing stature one cultivates Trichoceros antennifera better at a piece of crust, preferably robinie or pappel, without substrate edition. The temperature should not be more highly than kept at a moderate temperature. Temperature points in the summer are well stood, if Trichoceros stands antennifera thereby for drying. But in the summer in the evening and in the morning intensively waessern, in order to achieve as high a temperature difference between day and night as possible. One fertilizes weakly however continuously with a commercial Orchideenduenger. I'm sure you did it before, but it really is amazing that babelfish translates so poorly. Now you can see why those eBay descriptions are so wierd when they are posted by a non-English speaking person...

Zeedmsn, Curious as where you bought the seeds as the pack seem to be authentic Chinese? As far as the translation, it'll cost you a few seeds for next year :D, he he... The top of the pic, right hand side of the seed pack is the brand name, Wu Feng You (first 3 characters)followed by the description "green bitter melon". The right hand side of the pic, bottom of the seed pack says "Hybridized by the bitter melon agriculture organization specialist of Wu Shan" The bottom of the pic, left hand side of the pack: Big Fruit, Productive, and if you eat it will protect your health. Traditional Chinese will say that the bitter melon will reduce your inside heat (opposite of chili pepper) and help remove poisons from your body. Good luck Zeedman, hope our crazy WI weather this year cooperates. John

I am Swedish and I dabble in translation. I cannot find a good translation for the piece of often embroidered fabric that is hung on a towel-rail to hide kitchen towels in oldfashioned homes in Europe. The French call it a cache-tourchons, we Swedes call it a parade towel in literal translation. I collect these hangings and even have an American one, although it was embroidered by a German. It cost me 25 cents in an antique store in Madison, Wi, which led me to believe these things are not used in the US. The photo shows one of my latest finds in my kitchen. The style of the letters "Handdukar" (towels) shows that it was made some time between 1910 and 1920. Can you help with a good term?

Here's a link that offers translation for French knitting terms: http://chezplum.com/french-knitting-dictionnary/ And another link to a blog that explains the series of numbers. http://jorth.blogspot.com/2011/09/french-knitting-definitions.html#.VjVXSEvajwI Hope that helps.