You probably do n’t require me to tell you this but Christmas is just around the corner . In England it hardly ever pull the wool over someone’s eyes at Christmas ( currently the bookmakers are offering odds of about 9/4 if it snow in London : it does not have to snow much , a single flake would do but somebody important and meteorological has to see it fall ! ) although , as I indite this , there is a gale blow . Usually Christmas day is a bit grey and dank but should be a mirthful function as all my children will be home and they lean to be quite noisy en masse shot !
Anyway , enough of the casual gabfest , you need to know who has come through my quiz ? Well , my thanks to all of you who insert but there has to be a winner and the person with the greatest phone number of correct answer was … . ( drum roll ) … . Sheila Collins who comes from I know not where but she did moderately well . Sheila , if you send me your address I will post you a book as promised .
The motion picture accompanying this Blog are , again , fairly irrelevant . Some gorgeous seedy picture .
The answers are as follows….
1 . The Sloe is the fruit of which Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree ?
Prunus spinosa or Blackthorn . Blackthorn ) . The fruit is only really used to make sloe knock rummy . harvesting sloes after the first hoarfrost , get a fistful into a nursing bottle of gin ( with some sugar ) and wait about a yr . The forest of the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree makes a very fine cudgel .
2 . What did Edwin Beard Budding invent after watching a auto trimming the nap of cloth ?
The lawnmower ( he also invented the adjustable spanner )
3 . Which plant can be hoogiana , sibirica , reticulata or germanica ?
The Iris
4 . Shakespeare write “ What ’s in a name ? that which we call a rose , By any other name would smell as angelical ? In which play ?
Romeo and Juliet
5 . What is Apple Jack ?
Fermented apple juice , a bit like the French Calvados .
6 . In the mid 19th 100 which merchandise was the most authoritative exportation from the Peruvian Chincha Islands ? It was used as fertiliser on farm and gardens in both Europe and the USA .
Guano or , more unimaginatively , doll muck .
7 . A Frenchman wants to stay in the USA , a horticulturist wants an apartment with a magnificent conservatoire only available to matrimonial twosome . In which film did Gerard Depardieu and Andie Macdowell decide on a marriage of convenience ?
Green Card
8 . What was the 1967 Hit Sung dynasty for The Flowerpot Men ?
allow ’s Go to San Francisco
9 . What veg is supposed to improve the sightedness ? Does it work ?
Carrots – which are gamey in Vitamin A which , in its turn , is well for maintain healthy eyesight .
Astrantia
The hearsay was begun in the 2nd WW when pilots were rumoured to be rust fortune of carrots for improving their night vision – this was to try and cover up the truth about the invention of radar .
10 . Which vegetable is appraise on the Scoville scale ?
Chilli peppers . build up by Walter Scoville in 1912 . The more units , the hotter the chilli . The hottest is the Dorset Naga at 1,600,000 units . There isa little film herewhich ( sort of ) explains things .
Astrantia
11 . What are Nepenthes and who should be very wary of them ?
They are carnivorous pitcher plants into which unwary insects fall . The plants then gather nutrients from the bodies of captured target . Some of the enceinte species occasionally catch rats and lizards as well .
12 . What loading was the Bounty ( as in the Mutiny on the Bounty ) bear from Tahiti ?
Ligusticum scoticum
Breadfruit . He was taking them to the plantation of the West Indies to supply a cheap high-pitched energy nutrient for slave . Obviously the mutiny scuppered that excursion although Bligh eventually succeeded in 1971 . To no service as the slave refused to eat on the fruit .
13 . What do the initials RHS stand for ?
Royal Horticultural Society – some of you said Royal Horticulture Society but I must be strict . Sorry .
14 . With what arboricultural technique are the following connect : Chokkan , Kengai , and Sabamiki ?
Bonsai . Chokkan is Formal Upright , Kengai is cascade form and Sabamiki is Split trunk
15 . In the Language of Flowers , carmine pink wine symbolise love . What do yellow pink wine symbolise ?
Poppy
The decrease of love or unfaithfulness . ( Although two of you said Friendship – one of you after Googling – so there is obviously more than one language of Flowers . One much more cynical than the other so I have admit both reply to make up for possible cultural differences . )
16 . In baseball who are the Gardeners ?
They are the outfielders .
horticulture in cricket is when the batsmen prod dislodged divot back into place with their bats .
horticulture in the reality of espionage is the planting of something that will coerce the foe to air a substance in computer code thus give cryptographers a crib to serve with decode .
17 . Fill in the lack line to this 1928 Fats Waller vocal : Every beloved bee occupy with jealousy , When they see you out with me , I do n’t blame them , Goodness knows ……
Honeysuckle Rose
18 . rose come in many colours . Which color does not feature ?
There are no blue roses – people have tried but they are always ugly .
19 . Who was the associate of John Bartram , lawyer , soldier politician , scientist , Dr. and plant scientist who first stick in the Linnaean scheme to America ?
I had him down as Dr Cadwallader Colden , the lieutenant regulator of the Province of New York who send out a taxonomy of the flora of Orange County to Linnaeus who then bring out it in Europe . I am also accepting Peter Collinson – even though his name is not as interesting .
20 . What is the national bloom of Japan ( also the name yield to the royal Throne of Japan , the onetime constitutional monarchy in the world ) ?
It is the Chrysanthemum Throne . The first Emperor was Emperor Jimmu in 660BC .
Thanks for get in . felicitous Christmas and I will see you in the New Year .
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