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Subject: Rate these trees....
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1. Beech
2. Birch
3. Maple
4. Mulberry
5. Oak
6. Palm
7. Pine
8. Sycamore
9. Sweetgum
10. Tulip
11. Willow
Subject: Re: Rate these trees....
LOL - Whaddaya know ! :o
That's exactly the oder I rate them in too ! ;D ;D ;D
1. Beech
2. Birch
3. Maple
4. Mulberry
5. Oak
6. Palm
7. Pine
8. Sycamore
9. Sweetgum
10. Tulip
11. Willow
Hee hee :P
Subject: Re: Rate these trees....
1. Beech makes a nice hedge 5
2. Birch I like silver birches we've got two in our garden 4
3. Maple maple syrup on hot pancakes yum! 4.5
4. Mulberry for its contribute to real silk 4
5. Oak a splendid noble looking tree 4
6. Palm not a big fan of these 2
7. Pine not too keen on the except at Christmas 2
8. Sycamore nasty, horrible things. rip 'em all up 0
9. Sweetgum ???
10. Tulip ???
11. Willow v thirsty tree. I like the weeping variety plus I used to live on Willow Road so 4
Subject: Re: Rate these trees....
All trees are fine objects in my book (which is ultimately where 'my book' came from in the first place!)
...but special mention to
#7. Pine - nice to look at, and the aroma's not bad - but I'll never have one as a Christmas tree again! You only had to sneeze at it and there'd be half a ton of needles on the floor...
10. Tulip - Tulip tree? You must have some honking great mutant Tulips where you are, Meriadoc...! (Or, unless I've got the Japanese Bonsai variety...!)
Subject: Re: Rate these trees....
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10. Tulip - Tulip tree? You must have some honking great mutant Tulips where you are, Meriadoc...! (Or, unless I've got the Japanese Bonsai variety...!)
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I thought at first maybe Meriadoc meant a magnolia tree which has tulip shaped flowers so I checked in my dictionary to see if there really was such a thing.
It said the tulip tree 1. is also called tulip poplar or yellow poplar and it is a North American magnoliaceous forest tree with greenish-yellow tulip shaped flowers. 2. any other variety of tree with tulip shaped flowers such as the magnolia.
Don't say you never learn anything here!
Since I think Merry is North American she/he probably meant the first definition.
Subject: Re: Rate these trees....
Well done, that karen...!
I threw it around the office...'Anyone heard of a Tulip Tree, and if so, what does it look like?'
Fifty-two bemused expressions told me the answer to that...!
Not sure, then, if these things would grow here...I've never seen one face-to-face...
...that said, I still can't get the image of a 40ft Tulip out of my mind...!
Subject: Re: Rate these trees....
Here we have African Tulip trees (SPATHODEA campanulata)which grow to great heights. They have orange tulip shaped flowers and attract lots of nectar eating birds. We have a huge specimen in our back yard.
Subject: Re: Rate these trees....
1. Beech Nice wood.
2. Birch Pretty trees.
3. Maple Lovely trees (especially the Japanese variety), and wood.
4. Mulberry Huh?
5. Oak Nice wood.
6. Palm Eek! Seen too many of these in my lifetime! ::)
7. Pine Pretty atop mountains.
8. Sycamore Not sure what these look like.
9. Sweetgum Not sure what these look like.
10. Tulip LOL! Where I live we have Orchid Trees. I kid you not! :o
11. Willow Pretty trees.
Subject: Re: Rate these trees....
I will try ! Dunno lots about trees so I will be silly instead ::) :P
1. Beech We have them at the beech AND inland too :)
3. Maple Imagine how many have to be squeezed for a single bottle of syrup
4. Mulberry This is the one where the leave sar eused to feed silkworms ? Cool !
5. Oak Like Karen said, "good wood". An entire episode of M*A*S*H was devoted to Henry Blake's Oak table !
6. Palm Like Karen said, there are far too many of them in this world !
9. Sweetgum Where Juicy Fruit comes from ?
10. Tulip Tiptoe throught the trees just doesn't sound right ?
11. Willow They make me weep.....