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Re: Fw: shagbark, a very American tree:hickory or juniper or...?
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On 7/11/06 00:30, "jansymello" <jansy@AETERN.US> wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> I had taken Stadlen's comment: "Surely shagbark hickory is not shagbark
> juniper?" as a joke concerning my former mistake, when I exchanged the word
> "hickory" for "juniper". Actually, there is a shagbark juniper ( Juniper
> osteosperma)and it grows in the Southwest, mainly in Utah.
> Its size would be a better option to fit in Shade's garden and it might even
> hold a swing. The hickory tree may grow to 40 meters and its horizontal branch
> is high up, anteceded by hanging boughs that would have to be pruned; the
> shagbark juniper never grows over 9 meters.
>
> I still think there might be better options among shagbark trees, once we
> forget Kinbote's description of it as a "hickory" .
> It would be too ironical, the ghost of a Kinbotean joke, if Shade's shagbark
> happened to be a "Juniper utana" as I mistakenly had initially thought it
> would be.
> Jansy
>
> Jansy: a naughty reading (perish the thought): shag (copulate) + bark (doggie
> fashion)
> BUT, the Brit shag¹ in that sense seems out of CK¹s register?¹
>
> Stan Kelly-Bootle
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> Dear List,
>
> I had taken Stadlen's comment: "Surely shagbark hickory is not shagbark
> juniper?" as a joke concerning my former mistake, when I exchanged the word
> "hickory" for "juniper". Actually, there is a shagbark juniper ( Juniper
> osteosperma)and it grows in the Southwest, mainly in Utah.
> Its size would be a better option to fit in Shade's garden and it might even
> hold a swing. The hickory tree may grow to 40 meters and its horizontal branch
> is high up, anteceded by hanging boughs that would have to be pruned; the
> shagbark juniper never grows over 9 meters.
>
> I still think there might be better options among shagbark trees, once we
> forget Kinbote's description of it as a "hickory" .
> It would be too ironical, the ghost of a Kinbotean joke, if Shade's shagbark
> happened to be a "Juniper utana" as I mistakenly had initially thought it
> would be.
> Jansy
>
> Jansy: a naughty reading (perish the thought): shag (copulate) + bark (doggie
> fashion)
> BUT, the Brit shag¹ in that sense seems out of CK¹s register?¹
>
> Stan Kelly-Bootle
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