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Hi, Marky,
the process is called "grafting".
You may learn more about it here: grafting plants

Regards
Eckard

Hi, Officer,
ok, being away from home is always crabby.
However, doing a quick exploration on the Vernon internet-sites I gather there would be quite a lot to explore.
Me for one, would hunt down those murals the have all over the place. Also the list of activities going on in the region looks anything but dull.
So I'd recommend to take a closer look.

After all "A hand you can't cut off, you have to shake."

Wishing you a pleasant time at Vernon
Eckard

Hi, Rory,
me again, but this time with a solution to our small riddle.

To put it in a nutshell:
A game with pins on the crown of a hat. Two or more may play.
Each lays on a pin,then with the hand they strike the side of the hat time
about, and whoever makes the pins by a stroke cross each other, lifts those
so crossed.
I found this here: [URL=http://www.mail-archive. com/lace-chat@arachne.com/msg05679. html] Lace-chat Archive

Thanks again for bearing with me
Regards
Eckard

Hi, Rory,
thanks for heeding my question.
However, I bear grave doubts, whether the Game of Jacks is the real McCoy.
Of course I had to look it up (even childrens games vary from country to country and have a special language sometimes not covered by dictionaries) and the rules seem to be described here: [http://www.gameskidsplay. net/games/jacks_and_marbles_etc/ jacks.htm]

But jacks - be it coins or washers or stones - are in no way pins.

So carrying my search further and further I came across the "ANNALS of PHILADELPHIA AND PENNSYLVANIA, VOL. II Chapter 42 FINAL APPENDIX of the YEAR 1856. NOTES and REFLECTIONS on SOCIAL CHANGES and PROGRESS IN GENERAL." which yielded the following :
/quote/
This subject brings to mind their state in a former age, when
they (needles) were all imported and cost more than now. It was a consideration to
save them all by picking them up when seen. This was a peculiar operation
of the boys -- Two special reasons concurred with them : they were their
capital for the play of the game of push pin, and for their surplus they
could get pennies, at home. It was a common sight to see boys with a line of
pins stuck in their sleeve cuffs. Men too, always had a place for some,
stuck in a line at the head of the lapels of their coats.
/unquote/ (Accentuation by me)

Now this leaves room for one conclusion only: the game of pushpins was played with pins (needles).

Stubborn as I am when on a trail, I will continue my investigations

Thank you for bearing with me!
Regards
Eckard

Indeed,
that is exactly the question that brought me here. It all began with a quote from "The Rationale of Reward" by Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
/quote/
Prejudice apart, the game of push-pin is of equal value with the arts and sciences of music and poetry. If the game of push-pin furnish more pleasure, it is more valuable than either. Everybody can play at push-pin: poetry and music are relished only by a few. The game of push-pin is always innocent: it were well could the same be always asserted of poetry.
/unquote/

Now, translating this into German would be easy enough, if only it were not for those darned push-pins. Direct translation would be "Reisszwecke" (thumbtack) but that is no game children play. Pin in German may be "Nadel" (which equals "needle") or it may be "Kegel" which is the target in bowling.

I have no knowledge of a game employing needles, nor would this game be innocent. It might reach a painful and bloody ending.

Bowling, however, might be a game in connection with pins. If only it wasn't for the "push-".

So if anyone could enlighten my friends and me in a German forum, where we have discussed this all day ....

Regards
Eckard