[TheForge] Re: garden tools, botanical forms

[Mike Spencer]

When I moved to rural Nova Scotia (40 years ago this April Fool's
day), our local market town had no library but one was started in the
early 70s, rather small and initially with a rather pedestrian
collection.  I was exceedingly surprised to discover _Parallel Botany_
on the shelf.

For a review, see:

    http://brneurosci.org/reviews/parallelbotany.html

Regretably, the morphology of the various phyla of
umm..... existence-challenged plants is less aesthetically stimulating
than the similarly nonexistent plant forms created by blacksmiths.

But the book itself (which is out of print but not generically
non-existent) is a happy curiosity.


FWIW,
- Mike

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