'Potential'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Oh, Scrappy. So sorry to hear that.
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amych did me a total solid once and came over for dinner with me and the kids (aged 8 months and 3) while mr. flea was out of town once, and it was soooo helpful.
psst, I think that was me? Hey, this must mean I'm on Team Amy! SWEET.
I'm rereading Anne of Windy Poplars, and just got to this sentence:
She just loves church work and would be perfectly happy attending Ladies' Aids and Missionary Societies, planning for church suppers and Welcome socials, not to speak of exulting proudly in being the possessor of the finest wandering-jew in town.
The finest what? I tried wikipedia, and the only definition of "wandering jew" that makes any sense there is the plant, but I'm not sure that the plant would have been grown in Canada in the late 1800s, and anyway, it doesn't make too much sense at the end of a sentence about church stuff.
I think it would have. Anyway, I don't see that so much as a list of church stuff but more a list of genteelish lady stuff, among which vaguely competitive gardening would fit right in.
My immediate thought was the plant. My grandmother had them
My immediate thought was the plant. My grandmother had them
She'd be talking about the house plant. [link]
OK, thanks. A glance at wikipedia seemed to indicated that they only grow much further south, but I think I'll go with it being the plant, and that it was a bit of a joke/pun/whatever to put a plant with a name like that at the end of a list of church stuff. There are a few other times in these books where she does stuff like that with plant names.
Do genteel lady competitive gardeners sneak into their neighbors gardens and sabotage their herbaceous contenders?
Oh yes.
There was apparently considerable houseplant rivalry in that era. I read some other book in which women were boasting about having the best ferns.