3.1289 Joe Pye weed smoked out? (23)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Tue, 10 Apr 90 19:18:59 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 1289. Tuesday, 10 Apr 1990.

Date: Tue, 10 Apr 90 11:54:55 EDT
From: Robert Hollander <bobh@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Subject: Re: 3.1283 a garden of queries (151)

Your "garden of queries" begins with an inquiry concerning "Joe Pye's
Law." I know nothing of this, though find it intriguing. It may be
of interest to the inquirer to be told that, in my yard, there flourishes
a tallish weed which comes up each year, crowned by deep pink flowers,
which a botantically-minded friend some years ago informed me was known
as "Joe Pye Weed." Does that mean that _any_ large weed gets called
"Joe Pye"? I dunno.

Robert Hollander
bobh@phoenix.princeton.edu