[Magdalen] Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire.

Wed Nov 30 02:48:16 UTC 2016

On 11/29/16 3:11 PM, Sally Davies wrote:
> The other chestnuts I know from there are the ones kids use to make
> "conkers", pretty but completely inedible even by horses though they are
> called "horse chestnuts". I brought one back in my pocket but it didn't
> grow, it probably didn't like South Africa.

As I understand it, the word "horse" when attached to a plant is a 
corruption of "coarse".  Usually, anyway.

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