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The following excerpts are taken from The Real Dirt, a horticulture publication which can be found on the GCA website. It is a result of the Committee's desire to find a way to foster and encourage the love and pursuit of horticulture, particularly at the club level. 

Plant Puzzle Using Common Names

  What plant is this?

 From a concept submitted by Angel Morris 
Zone III Horticulture Representative, Rye Garden Club
  Example: 8 ozs of thick cholesterol=Creamcup

  1. Mixture of red and white

  2. Open snout of Chinese animal

  3. Light indoor woman's shoe

  4. Wise man

  5. Remember me, please

  6. God of Love's arrow 

  7. What Eve needed to make clothing

  8. Canine's forest lair

  9. Female covering garment

  10. Smoking equipment from Holland

  11. Woman with too much makeup

  12. Barber's lofty challenge

  13. What a Canadian Honker stands on

  14. Beak of baby-carrying bird

  15. Burning metal rod that stirs a fire

  16. Both this lettuce and this rose leave me cold

  17. Sign of weeping infant

  18. Breath aid for feline

   

  1. Baby's Tears

  2. Painted Lady

  3. Forget-Me-Not

  4. Dutchman's Pipe

  5. Iceberg

  6. Red-hot Poker

  7. Catmint

  8. Dragon's Mouth

  9. Lady's Slipper

  10. Cupid's Dart

  11. Goose Foot

  12. Pink

  13. Jupiter's Beard

  14. Lady's Mantle

  15. Adam's Needle

  16. Sage

  17. Stork's Bill

  18. Dogwood

 


Answers to Plant Puzzle at bottom of page.

 

@The New Yorker Collection l987 Stan Hunt from cartoonbank.com. All Rights Reserved. 
Submitted by Mary Patterson, Co-Chairman, Partners For Plants

Answers to Plant Puzzle:   1-L, 2-H, 3-I, 4-P, 5-C, 6-J, 7-O, 8-R, 9-N, 10-D, 11-B, 12-M, 13-K, 14-Q, 15-F, 16-E, 17-A, 18-G

  


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