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>-- Original Message -- >Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 09:23:24 +0100 >From: [log in to unmask] >Subject: metapodials & gardening >To: [log in to unmask] > > >In reply to Margaret McCarthy's original question regarding use of metapodials >in gardening, the following reference might be of interest - although dealing >with sheep rather than cattle bones. > >Ref. J. Parkinson 1629 Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris. London (1629) > >Parkinson writing on methods of "preserving the borders of gardens, whose >edges [have] become damaged with time and weather" says that "To prevent >that fault, some.. have chosen the shank bones of sheep, which after they >have been well cleansed and boyled, to take out the fat from them. are stucke >into the ground the small end downwards, and the knuckle head upwards and >thus being set side to side, or end to end, close together, they set out >the whole knot therewith which heads of bones although they look not white >the first yeare, yet after they have abidon some frosts and heates will become >white, and prettily grace out the ground.. although they will not last long >in form and order, yet because they are but bones many mislike them, and >indeed I know but few that use them". > >From Philip L. Armitage >Brixham > > >___________________________________________________________ > >Book yourself something to look forward to in 2005. >Cheap flights - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/travel/flights/ >Bargain holidays - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/travel/holidays/ > > > ___________________________________________________________ Book yourself something to look forward to in 2005. Cheap flights - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/travel/flights/ Bargain holidays - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/travel/holidays/