Them tomayters is poisenous Ruth!  Damned Spanish plot to wipe out good
New England stock like you!

(At least thats what I remember reading in some historical novel in my
yout.  Prob'ly Ken Roberts.)

-jc

On Friday, June 6, 2003, at 12:33  AM, Ruth Barton wrote:

> I think I remember now!!!!  Isn't that the one that is used in dried
> flower
> arrangements and some Christmas arrangements? It has a red berry with a
> yellowish "hull" around it.   That stuff is a vine and it is also
> becoming
> a weed in this area.  It is what the environmentalists call a
> "non-native
> species"  Tomatoes are also a non-native species, I suppose next you
> know
> they won't want us to grow tomatoes either.  Ruth
>
>
> At 8:40 AM -0400 6/5/03, Pam Stevenson wrote:
>> I seem to recall that it's a different plant - I don't think
>> bittersweet's
>> fruit looks like rosehips, but it's been a while since I've seen any
>> bittersweet, so my rememberer might be broken.
>>
>> - Pam
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