On 7/11/06 00:30, "jansymello" <jansy@AETERN.US> wrote:
Dear List,
I had taken Stadlen's comment: "Surely shagbark hickory is not shagbark juniper?" as a joke concerning my former mistake, when I exchanged the word "hickory" for "juniper". Actually, there is a shagbark juniper ( Juniper osteosperma)and it grows in the Southwest, mainly in Utah.
Its size would be a better option to fit in Shade's garden and it might even hold a swing. The hickory tree may grow to 40 meters and its horizontal branch is high up, anteceded by hanging boughs that would have to be pruned; the shagbark juniper never grows over 9 meters.
I still think there might be better options among shagbark trees, once we forget Kinbote's description of it as a "hickory" .
It would be too ironical, the ghost of a Kinbotean joke, if Shade's shagbark happened to be a "Juniper utana" as I mistakenly had initially thought it would be.
Jansy
Jansy: a naughty reading (perish the thought): shag (copulate) + bark (doggie fashion)
BUT, the Brit ‘shag’ in that sense seems out of CK’s ‘register?’
Stan Kelly-Bootle