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To: Ilaine who wrote (17580)	2/11/1999 2:09:00 PM
From: DScottD	Respond to of 71178

Off Topic, as if there's such a thing here. Rambi's sworn enemy snagged the magic reply number earlier today. #reply-7777777

To: Ilaine who wrote (17580)	2/11/1999 6:04:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Speaking of flowers, the jasmine in the kitchen is blooming. You can smell it when you walk by. It has about a hundred flowers. It's.....happy. We bet on which bud is going to open first. I think it's because of the kind of homes we were raised in. The Rhododendron fargessi out front is in full bloom. Shell pink and white trusses, about the size of a Texas grapefruit. (Those are those big ones.) This fargessi is getting big; I think it's taller than I now. It will become a small tree, if we don't move and someone blades the yard. I have another, even larger, but a different form of the same species and blooming after this one is done, which is way nice. Smells wonderful ~ like good fresh bubblegum. Clean and pure but...bubblegummy. Finer than a Chanel bubblegum. Number two's leaves are smoother, rounder, with more clearish-blue translucence to them. Its flowers are cast in ultra graceful truss arrays. They "hang" from the center, but weightlessly, like tubes of a heavenly PA system. They're from China. Discovered by the Reverend Fargessi, in about 1868 or 76 I think. He did something useful. Very useful, as a matter of fact. Beautiful. He spread a beautiful thing around the world. And oh - R moupinense, with big semi-tropical like flowers, like the Australia ones, is about to open. Want to bet on which one?