The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse Acquaints Us With Phacelia

Summary: The Mystery of the Acid Soil short story by Kate Mosse for Marple: Twelve New Mysteries copyrighted by Agatha Christie Limited acquaints us with Phacelia.

"God talks to human beings through many vectors: through each other, through organized religion, through the great books of those religions, through wise people, through art and music and literature and poetry, but nowhere with such detail and grace and color and joy as through creation. When we destroy a species, when we destroy a special place, we're diminishing our capacity to sense the divine, understand who God is and what our own potential is." Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., April 19, 2023, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts.

“And there’s many people out there who want us to move to the next planet already and I’m like, hang on, let’s not give up on this planet yet," William, Prince of Wales, July 31, 2023, Sorted Food food truck, London, England, United Kingdom.

Kate Mosse in The Mystery of the Acid Soil addresses only two acid soil-appreciating plants by scientific appellation. She affirms common-named heliotrope and scorpion-weed scientifically as Phacelia (from Greek φάκελος, “bundle”); illustration of "Phacelia Tanacetifolia Tansy-Leaved Phacelia" by Glasgow, Scotland-born botanical illustrator Walter Hood Fitch (Feb. 28, 1817-Jan. 14, 1892) in Curtis's Botanical Magazine, vol. XII of the new series (1839), Plate 3703: Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), Public Domain, via Flickr

The Mystery of the Acid Soil, short story by Kate Mosse for Marple: Twelve New Mysteries copyrighted by Agatha Christie Limited, acquaints us with such acid soil-appreciating plants as the genus Phacelia.

Agatha Christie Limited brings us Sep. 13, 2022, to its 14-book Marple Collection, the latest being Marple: Twelve New Mysteries, beneath HarperCollins Publishers’ William Morrow imprint. Kate Mosse crafts pages 299-300, 301-306, 306-313, 313-317, 317-320, 320-321, 321-323, 323-325, 326-327 and 327-333 into 10 configurations to convey her contribution, the 10th, next-last chapter. All denizens but one denizen described by first, genus name alone and but another denizen discerned by first, genus and second, species names domicile common names.

Clematis crispa and Phacelia (from Greek κλῆμα, “branch, twig” and Latin crispa, “crimped, curly, tremulous”; φάκελος, “bundle”) respectively elaborate buttercup-family genus and species and borage-family genus.

Tracheophyte- (from Greek τραχεῖα ἀρτηρία φυτά, “windpipe artery plants”) clade vascular tissues furnish Phacelia species energizing, omnidirection-flowing, photosynthetic starches and sugars and soil-extracted, solubilizing, upward-flowing nutrients.

Tracheophyte cladeship grants Phacelia-genus species reproductive spores, 9-11 per-cell chromosomes and, like angiosperm- (from Greek ἀγγεῖον σπέρμα, “container[ized] seed”) clade members, true leaves, roots and stems. Flowering-plant cladeship honors bell-, bowl-, tube-shaped, sepaled (from Latin sēparātus petalum, “[bud-holding] separate petal” via sēpalum), two-gendered flowers before embryonic, outer-coated seeds within warm weather-harvestable fruits. Eudicot- (from Greek εὖ- δῐ- κοτυληδών, “good two cup[-like] cavity”) clade membership includes such flowering plants as borage-order, borage-family members that integrate two germinated seed leaves.

The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse jubilates Phacelia, Boraginales and Boraginaceae (from Latin burra -ālis, “shaggy-garmented”; borāgō -āceae, “borage [Borago officinalis] -resembling”) member.

Borage- and forget-me-not-order and family kinship kindles alternate-kept, gray-green, narrow-sided, pinnate (from Latin pinna, “feathered”; -ātus, “-ed”), straight-stemmed leaves with calcium carbonate- and silicon dioxide-keeping hairs.

The native lodger of North and South America likewise launches skin allergies from calcium carbonate- and silicon dioxide-laden hairs lined along maximally 4-foot- (1.22-meter-) long stems. The annual and the perennial herbs manage spring- and summer-manifesting sepals maintaining blue, green, orange, pink, purple, white or yellow lobes perhaps 2 months after sowing. The borage and the forget-me-not family nestles its Hydrophylloideae (from Greek ῠ̔́δωρ φύλλον, “water leaf”; Latin -oideae, “-resembling”) water-leaf subfamily members atop thick, underground tap roots.

The genus Phacelia offers The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse nutritious calcium and nitrogen obtained from area soil for soil food web members.

Waterleaf-subfamily membership presents the genus Phacelia with that taproot and those nutrients along with bisexual, two-gendered flowers each with five ray-like sepals and with five stamens.

The genus Phacelia quarters as common names heliotrope (from Greek ἥλῐος τρόπος, “sun turn”) and scorpionweed because of how its flowers and its fruits physically queue. Calcium- and nitrogen-retrieving and rendering Phacelia, recognized by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (April 12, 1748-Sep. 17, 1836), requires cool-summer, fertile, mild-winter, sunny, 30-centimeter (11.81-inch), well-drained ranges. Drupe- (from Greek δρύππᾱ, “overripe olive” via Latin drūpa, “wrinkled olive”) shorn, soil-sequestered seeds suggest minus 50-degree-Fahrenheit (minus 45.6-degree-Celsius) sites outdoors-sown pre-spring and pre-fall frost dates.

The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse treats us to the terminal, thick-trooping flowers and the nutrient-transmitting tissues of freeze-, heat- and humidity-intolerant Phacelia.

Kate Mosse in The Mystery of the Acid Soil only applies the first, genus, scientific appellation to common-named heliotrope and scorpion-weed. Perhaps Jane Marple arranged as Phacelia specimens blue tansy, fiddleneck, purple tansy the second-, species-named Phacelia tanacetifolia; "Phacelia tanacetifolia, Tansy-leaved Phacelia," with ovarium's two-parted hairy style (figure 1; lower left) and 10 scales near base of cut-open corolla (figure 2; lower right), drawn by Miss Drake (English botanical illustrator Sarah Anne Drake, nicknamed "Ducky"; July 24, 1803–July 9, 1857) in Edwards's Botanical Register, new series vol. VII (MDCCCXXXV [1835]), Plate 1696: Internet Archive Book Images, Public Domain, via Flickr

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Dedication

This post is dedicated to the memory of our beloved blue-eyed brother, Charles, who guided the creation of the Met Opera and Astronomy posts on Earth and Space News. We memorialized our brother in "Our Beloved Blue-Eyed Brother, Charles, With Whom We Are Well Pleased," published on Earth and Space News on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, an anniversary of our beloved father's death.

Image credits:

Kate Mosse in The Mystery of the Acid Soil addresses only two acid soil-appreciating plants by scientific appellation. She affirms common-named heliotrope and scorpion-weed scientifically as Phacelia (from Greek φάκελος, “bundle”); illustration of "Phacelia Tanacetifolia Tansy-Leaved Phacelia" by Glasgow, Scotland-born botanical illustrator Walter Hood Fitch (Feb. 28, 1817-Jan. 14, 1892) in Curtis's Botanical Magazine, vol. XII of the new series (1839), Plate 3703: Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), Public Domain, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/8386428831; Public Domain, via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/433218; Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Curtis’s_botanical_magazine_(Plate_3703)_-_clean_(Phacelia_tanacetifolia).jpg

Kate Mosse in The Mystery of the Acid Soil only applies the first, genus, scientific appellation to common-named heliotrope and scorpion-weed. Perhaps Jane Marple arranged as Phacelia specimens blue tansy, fiddleneck, purple tansy the second-, species-named Phacelia tanacetifolia; "Phacelia tanacetifolia, Tansy-leaved Phacelia," with ovarium's two-parted hairy style (figure 1; lower left) and 10 scales near base of cut-open corolla (figure 2; lower right), drawn by Miss Drake (English botanical illustrator Sarah Anne Drake, nicknamed "Ducky"; July 24, 1803–July 9, 1857) in Edwards's Botanical Register, new series vol. VII (MDCCCXXXV [1835]), Plate 1696: Internet Archive Book Images, Public Domain, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/20984858588/; Not in copyright, via Internet Archive @ https://archive.org/details/edwardsbotanical20edwa/page/n189/mode/1up; Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edwards'_botanical_register,_or,_Ornamental_flower-garden_and_shrubbery_.._(1829-1847)_(20984858588).jpg

For further information:

Brickell, Christopher; and Trevor Cole. (Editors-in-Chief). 2002. "Clematis Old man's beard, Travelers' joy." Pages 521-524. The American Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Plants & Flowers. New York NY: DK Publishing, Inc.

Brickell, Christopher; and Trevor Cole. (Editors-in-Chief). 2002. "Phacelia." Page 628. The American Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Plants & Flowers. New York NY: DK Publishing, Inc.

"Clematis crispa." Page 387. In: Hogan, Sean (Chief Consultant). 2003. Flora A Gardener's Encyclopedia. Volume I A-K. Portland Or: Timber Press, Inc.

Cranshaw, Whitney. 2004. "Clematis Chewing insects: margined blister beetle, twobanded Japanese weevil. Sucking insects: garden fleahopper, green peach aphid." Page 588. In: Appendix of Host Plant Genera and Associated Insects and Mites." Pages 577-627. Garden Insects of North America: The Ultimate Guide to Backyard Bugs. Princeton NJ; and Woodstock Oxfordshire UK: Princeton University Press.

Marriner, Derdriu. 12 April 2024. "Clematis Crispa Appears in The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2024/04/clematis-crispa-appears-in-mystery-of.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 5 April 2024. "The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse Allows Jane Marple Drinks." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-mystery-of-acid-soil-by-kate-mosse.html#google_vignette

Marriner, Derdriu. 29 March 2024. "The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse Airs Birds and Butterflies." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-mystery-of-acid-soil-by-kate-mosse.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 22 March 2024. "Tea Leaves Are Safer in The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2024/03/tea-leaves-are-safer-in-mystery-of-acid.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 15 March 2024. "Jane Marple Ambles About The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2024/03/jane-marple-ambles-about-mystery-of.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 8 March 2024. "The Mystery of the Acid Soil Avails Us of Jane Marple by Kate Mosse." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-mystery-of-acid-soil-avails-us-of.html

Mosse, Kate. 2022. "The Mystery of the Acid Soil." Pages 299-333. In: Agatha Christie. Marple: Twelve New Mysteries. New York NY: William Morrow Imprint, HarperCollins Publishers.

"Phacelia." Pages 1016-1018. In: Hogan, Sean (Chief Consultant). 2003. Flora A Gardener's Encyclopedia. Volume I A-K. Portland Or: Timber Press, Inc.

Sheng, Lu; Kongshu Ji; and Liangliang Yu. 24 September 2014. "Karyotype analysis on 11 species of the genus Clematis." Brazilian Journal of Botany 37(2). Springer. Received 11 March 2014. Accepted 1 September 2014. Published online 24 September 2014. Copyrighted 2014 Botanical Society of Sao Paulo. DOI 10.1007/s40415-014-0099-5
Available @ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ji-Kongshu/publication/280713109_Karyotype_analysis_on_11_species_of_the_genus_Clematis/links/5d9df87e299bf13f40d0c881/Karyotype-analysis-on-11-species-of-the-genus-Clematis.pdf

Sugiura, T. 1940. "Studies on the Chromosome Numbers in Higher Plants. IV." Cytologia 10: 324-333.
Available @ https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/cytologia1929/10/3/10_3_324/_pdf/-char/ja

Tenenbaum, Frances. (Ed.) "Clematis." Pages 98-100. In: Encyclopedia of Garden Plqnts. Taylor's Guides to Gardening. Boston MA; New York NY: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Tenenbaum, Frances. (Ed.) "Phacelia." Page 297. In: Encyclopedia of Garden Plqnts. Taylor's Guides to Gardening. Boston MA; New York NY: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Clematis Crispa Appears in The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse

Summary: Clematis crispa appears in The Mystery of the Acid Soil, short story by Kate Mosse for Marple: Twelve New Mysteries copyrighted by Agatha Christie Limited.

"God talks to human beings through many vectors: through each other, through organized religion, through the great books of those religions, through wise people, through art and music and literature and poetry, but nowhere with such detail and grace and color and joy as through creation. When we destroy a species, when we destroy a special place, we're diminishing our capacity to sense the divine, understand who God is and what our own potential is." Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., April 19, 2023, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts.

“And there’s many people out there who want us to move to the next planet already and I’m like, hang on, let’s not give up on this planet yet," William, Prince of Wales, July 31, 2023, Sorted Food food truck, London, England, United Kingdom.

Kate Mosse addresses two plants alone by their scientific appellation in The Mystery of the Acid Soil. She affirms common-named blue jasmine, curl-flower, swamp leather-flower as Clematis crispa (from Greek κλῆμα, “branch, twig”; and from Latin crispa, “crimped, curly, tremulous”) scientifically; illustration of "Curly clematis Clematis crispa Linnaeus," from specimen growing near Yemassee, Lowcountry region, South Carolina, by American Quaker botanical artist and naturalist Mary Morris Vaux Walcott (July 31, 1860-Aug. 22, 1940), in M.V. Walcott, North American wild flowers, vol. 2 (1925), Plate 150: Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), Public Domain, via Flickr

Clematis crispa, commonly blue jasmine, curl-flower or swamp leather-flower, appears in The Mystery of the Acid Soil, short story by Kate Mosse for Marple: Twelve New Mysteries copyrighted by Agatha Christie Limited.

Agatha Christie Limited bears us Sep. 13, 2022, for its 14-book Marple Collection, the book Marple: Twelve New Mysteries, beneath the HarperCollins Publishers’ William Morrow imprint. Kate Mosse constructs pages 299-300, 301-306, 306-313, 313-317, 317-320, 320-321, 321-323, 323-325, 326-327 and 327-333 as 10 configurations to communicate her contribution, the 10th, next-last chapter. Subchapter 3 delivers us Jane Marple describing as acid soil-devoted denizens garden azaleas, clematis crispa and rhododendrons, among which trio she only designates one scientific name-wise.

Tracheophyte- (from Greek τραχεῖα ἀρτηρία φυτά, “windpipe artery plants”) clade vascular tissues ensure clematis crispa everywhere-flowing energizing photosynthetic starches and sugars and upward-flowing solubilizing soil-extracted nutrients.

That clade furnishes clematis crispa reproductive spores, 16 per-cell chromosomes and, like angiosperm- (from Greek ἀγγεῖον σπέρμα, “container[ized] seed”) clade members, true leaves, roots and stems.

That flowering-plant clade generates bell-shaped, sepaled (from Latin sēparātus petalum, “[bud-enclosing] separate petal” via sēpalum), separate-gendered flowers before embryonic, outer-coated seeds within edible or non-edible fruits. Eudicot- (from Greek εὖ- δῐ- κοτυληδών, “good two cup[-like] cavity”) clade membership houses such flowering plants as buttercup-family, buttercup-order members, that have two germinated seed leaves. Ranunculales (from Latin rāna -unculus –ālis, “frog little pertaining [to]”) ordership invokes Ranunculaceae (from Latin rāna -unculus -āceae, “frog little -resembling”) buttercup and crowfoot family membership.

Clematis crispa (from Greek κλῆμα, “branch, twig”; and from Latin crispa, “crimped, curly, tremulous”) poisonously, toxically joins The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse.

Buttercup- and crowfoot-family membership keepsakes protoanemonin toxins that kindle blistering, itchy mucous-membrane and skin rashes; dizziness; nausea; and, more severely sometimes, hepatitis, jaundice, paralysis and spasms.

Air-drying Clematis crispa launches bonded molecules of anti-inflammatory, non-blistering anemonin, whose broken-down water molecules launch such non-toxic, protein-synthesizing dicarboxylic acids as aspartic and glutamic amino acids. Merely 3- to 9-foot- (0.9- to 2.4-meter-) high, 3- to 6-foot (0.9- to 1.8-meter-) spreading vines, mangled or minus vertical-maintaining materials, menace animal and human migrants. Naked stems niche alternate-positioned, entire-margined, pinnate (from Latin pinna, “feathered”; -ātus, “-ed” via pinnātus) leaves as 3 to 5 to even 7 egg- or lance-like leaflets.

Clematis crispa offers August-occurring The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse bell-shaped, blue-lavender or pink-white, clustered or individualized, downward-hanging, March- through September-originating, petal-less flowers.

One- to 3-inch- (2.54- to 7.6-centimeter-) long sepaled (from Latin sēparātus petalum, “separated petal”) flowers possess backward-curving, 1- to 2-inch- (2.54- to 5.08-centimeter-) long, urn-like blooms.

The months June through October quarter capsule-like, dry, feather-like silk-tailed, non-splitting, 1-inch- (2.54-centimeter-) long and wide, one-seeded, spider-headed achenes (from Greek ἀ χαίνω, “not to gape”). They regale cat-, dog-, horse-toxic, 1- to 3-inch- (2.54- to 7.6-centimeter-) long leaves not even 1 inch (2.54 centimeter) wide with fragile fruits and fragrant flowers. Nectaring, pollinating bees and butterflies and seed-spreading hummingbirds seek clematis crispa in clayey to loamy to sandy to silty, marsh-wooded, 2- to 6-plus-hour direct-sunned, well-drained soils.

The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse theoretically tolerates Clematis crispa at temperatures between -20 and 100 degrees Fahrenheit (-29 to 35 degrees Celsius).

Jane Marple perhaps somewhat amazes her audience in The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse. She announces as among her acid soil-loving appreciators Clematis crispa, aesthetic alien from the southeastern United States; Wednesday, April 22, 2015, 17:36, image of Curlflower (Clematis crispa), Catahoula National Wildlife Refuge, Jonesville, east central Louisiana: Judy Gallagher, CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Dedication

This post is dedicated to the memory of our beloved blue-eyed brother, Charles, who guided the creation of the Met Opera and Astronomy posts on Earth and Space News. We memorialized our brother in "Our Beloved Blue-Eyed Brother, Charles, With Whom We Are Well Pleased," published on Earth and Space News on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, an anniversary of our beloved father's death.

Image credits:

Kate Mosse addresses two plants alone by their scientific appellation in The Mystery of the Acid Soil. She affirms common-named blue jasmine, curl-flower, swamp leather-flower as Clematis crispa (from Greek κλῆμα, “branch, twig”; and from Latin crispa, “crimped, curly, tremulous”) scientifically; illustration of "Curly clematis Clematis crispa Linnaeus," from specimen growing near Yemassee, Lowcountry region, South Carolina, by American Quaker botanical artist and naturalist Mary Morris Vaux Walcott (July 31, 1860-Aug. 22, 1940), in M.V. Walcott, North American wild flowers, vol. 2 (1925), Plate 150: Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), Public Domain, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/33041360568/; Public Domain, via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42667955; Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress is not aware of any U.S. copyright or any other restrictions in the documents in this collection, via Library of Congress Book/Printed Material @ (catalog record) https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbc0001.2022rosen2315v02/, (specific image URL) https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbc0001.2022rosen2315v02/?sp=289; Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clematis_crispa,_by_Mary_Vaux_Walcott.jpg; via Southwest School of Botanical Medicine (SSBM): Paintings of Mary Vaux Walcott @ https://www.swsbm.com/Images/Walcott.html, (image specific URL) https://www.swsbm.com/Images/NewWolcott/Clematis_crispa.jpg

Jane Marple perhaps somewhat amazes her audience in The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse. She announces as among her acid soil-loving appreciators Clematis crispa, aesthetic alien from the southeastern United States; Wednesday, April 22, 2015, 17:36, image of Curlflower (Clematis crispa), Catahoula National Wildlife Refuge, Jonesville, east central Louisiana: Judy Gallagher, CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Curlflower_-_Clematis_crispa,_Catahoula_National_Wildlife_Refuge,_Jonesville,_Louisiana.jpg; Judy Gallagher (Judy Gallagher), CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/52450054@N04/25125660684/

For further information:

Brickell, Christopher; and Trevor Cole. (Editors-in-Chief). 2002. "Clematis Old man's beard, Travelers' joy." Pages 521-524. The American Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Plants & Flowers. New York NY: DK Publishing, Inc.

Brickell, Christopher; and Trevor Cole. (Editors-in-Chief). 2002. "Phacelia." Page 628. The American Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Plants & Flowers. New York NY: DK Publishing, Inc.

"Clematis crispa." Page 387. In: Hogan, Sean (Chief Consultant). 2003. Flora A Gardener's Encyclopedia. Volume I A-K. Portland Or: Timber Press, Inc.

Cranshaw, Whitney. 2004. "Clematis Chewing insects: margined blister beetle, twobanded Japanese weevil. Sucking insects: garden fleahopper, green peach aphid." Page 588. In: Appendix of Host Plant Genera and Associated Insects and Mites." Pages 577-627. Garden Insects of North America: The Ultimate Guide to Backyard Bugs. Princeton NJ; and Woodstock Oxfordshire UK: Princeton University Press.

Marriner, Derdriu. 5 April 2024. "The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse Allows Jane Marple Drinks." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-mystery-of-acid-soil-by-kate-mosse.html#google_vignette

Marriner, Derdriu. 29 March 2024. "The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse Airs Birds and Butterflies." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-mystery-of-acid-soil-by-kate-mosse.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 22 March 2024. "Tea Leaves Are Safer in The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2024/03/tea-leaves-are-safer-in-mystery-of-acid.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 15 March 2024. "Jane Marple Ambles About The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2024/03/jane-marple-ambles-about-mystery-of.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 8 March 2024. "The Mystery of the Acid Soil Avails Us of Jane Marple by Kate Mosse." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-mystery-of-acid-soil-avails-us-of.html

Mosse, Kate. 2022. "The Mystery of the Acid Soil." Pages 299-333. In: Agatha Christie. Marple: Twelve New Mysteries. New York NY: William Morrow Imprint, HarperCollins Publishers.

"Phacelia." Pages 1016-1018. In: Hogan, Sean (Chief Consultant). 2003. Flora A Gardener's Encyclopedia. Volume I A-K. Portland Or: Timber Press, Inc.

Sheng, Lu; Kongshu Ji; and Liangliang Yu. 24 September 2014. "Karyotype analysis on 11 species of the genus Clematis." Brazilian Journal of Botany 37(2). Springer. Received 11 March 2014. Accepted 1 September 2014. Published online 24 September 2014. Copyrighted 2014 Botanical Society of Sao Paulo. DOI 10.1007/s40415-014-0099-5
Available @ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ji-Kongshu/publication/280713109_Karyotype_analysis_on_11_species_of_the_genus_Clematis/links/5d9df87e299bf13f40d0c881/Karyotype-analysis-on-11-species-of-the-genus-Clematis.pdf

Sugiura, T. 1940. "Studies on the Chromosome Numbers in Higher Plants. IV." Cytologia 10: 324-333.
Available @ https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/cytologia1929/10/3/10_3_324/_pdf/-char/ja

Tenenbaum, Frances. (Ed.) "Clematis." Pages 98-100. In: Encyclopedia of Garden Plqnts. Taylor's Guides to Gardening. Boston MA; New York NY: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Tenenbaum, Frances. (Ed.) "Phacelia." Page 297. In: Encyclopedia of Garden Plqnts. Taylor's Guides to Gardening. Boston MA; New York NY: Houghton Mifflin Company.

The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse Allows Jane Marple Drinks

Summary: The Mystery of the Acid Soil, short story by Kate Mosse for Marple: Twelve New Mysteries copyrighted by Agatha Christie Limited, allows Jane Marple drinks.

"God talks to human beings through many vectors: through each other, through organized religion, through the great books of those religions, through wise people, through art and music and literature and poetry, but nowhere with such detail and grace and color and joy as through creation. When we destroy a species, when we destroy a special place, we're diminishing our capacity to sense the divine, understand who God is and what our own potential is." Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., April 19, 2023, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts.

“And there’s many people out there who want us to move to the next planet already and I’m like, hang on, let’s not give up on this planet yet," William, Prince of Wales, July 31, 2023, Sorted Food food truck, London, England, United Kingdom.

Jane Marple acclaims plum trees that accommodate her achieving her annual after-dinner damson-gin alcohol in The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse. Perhaps she allows Carl Linnaeus (May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778) and Camillo Karl Schneider (April 7, 1876-Jan. 5, 1951) among her scientific-method heroes for their analyzing damson-plum tree parts and trees into scientific classification as Prunus domestica subsp. insititia (from Greek προύνη via Latin prunus, “plum tree”; Latin domus -icus, “native-country pertaining” via domesticus, “domestic, familiar, native, of the house”; Latin insititia, “established”); illustrations of plum cultivars Imperial Gage, Shropshire Damson, Lombard, Maynard and Yellow Egg by Austrian-born, Philadelphia immigrant watercolor artist Alois Lunzer (born 1840) in Brown Brothers Company Continental Nurseries, Trees and Plants for the World Out of Doors (1909), page 14: Library of Congress, Public Domain, Free to Use and Reuse, via Library of Congress Book/Printed Material

The Mystery of the Acid Soil, short story by Kate Mosse for Marple: Twelve New Mysteries copyrighted by Agatha Christie Limited, allows Jane Marple anonymous tea, cherry brandy and damson gin drinks.

Agatha Christie Limited brings us Sep. 13, 2022, for its 14-book Marple Collection, the book Marple: Twelve New Mysteries, beneath the HarperCollins Publishers’ William Morrow imprint. The Kate Mosse contribution, as the 11th, next-last chapter, constructs into 10 configurations the pages 299-300, 301-306, 306-313, 313-317, 317-320, 320-321, 321-323, 323-325, 326-327 and 327-333. The first subchapter delivers us Jane Marple with gray wool drawn perhaps from St. Mary Mead, to be done into a pullover to delight a great-nephew.

That wool perhaps ensues from St. Mary Mead, where Jane Marple establishes her home and which enables her enjoying fresh goat or sheep cheese and milk.

Jane Marple frets over her jasmine hedge, which perhaps fills her cups with jasmine tea, in that first subchapter and again in the final, 10th subchapter.

The second subchapter gives us Jane Marple with “her hands growing heavy” (Mosse: page 301), perhaps from not getting over good drinks and food Monday and Tuesday. The first subchapter hints of heavenly drinks and food from Jane Marple having dinner with nephew Raymond, niece-in-law Joan and their sons at Simpson’s restaurant. The second subchapter intimates that Jane Marple imbibes alcoholic drinks even as she includes in her suitcase her homemade cherry brandy and her own damson gin.

The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse jubilates the judicious journey of Jane Marple by her joining her friend, Emmeline Strickert, in alcoholic drinks.

Subchapter 3 kindles Emmeline Strickert, known as Emmy, keeping the cherry brandy on a pantry shelf even as she knows as Wednesday drinks Marple-made damson gin.

The two friends like the damson gin, loyal to a recipe left by the perhaps maternal, the perhaps paternal grandmother of Jane Marple, at 6:00 p.m. Subchapter 3 mentions the Drovers cottage maid making the evening meal without its makeup even as subchapter 4 mentions for breakfast buttered toast, marmalade and tea. Perhaps Jane Marple, if not her hostess, Emmy, niche such comestible plants as lavender, roses and wild marjoram as nutritious necessities for Drovers cottage meal times.

The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse offers, as alcoholic drinks, whiskey straight up in subchapter 3 and whisky and soda in subchapter 10.

The seventh subchapter presents, among the short-story alcoholic drinks, “bitter beer” for “informal village taxi service” (Mosse:321) driver Williams, not for Jane Marple or Emmeline Strickert.

That same subchapter in the short story quarters, among its back-yard, flowering-garden plants qualifiable for tea-questing drinkers, neutral-soil pH 7-quantifiable lilacs and acid-soil sub-7 pH-quantifiable rhododendrons. The eighth subchapter renders Jane Marple and Emmeline Strickert to the Grove Park rectory for Thursday afternoon tea, with no or unrevealed refreshments, with the rector. The last, 10th subchapter serves cherry brandy to Elizabeth Cooper, Jane Marple and Emmeline Strickert and whisky and soda to curate Ernest Kemp and his rector.

The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse tells us what Jane Marple takes with her tea, not what she takes with her alcoholic drinks.

Elizabeth Cooper, Jane Marple and Emmeline Strickert arrange themselves around cherry brandy even as Ernest Kemp and his rector assemble around whisky and soda. Perhaps that whisky in The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse attracts two gentlemen who avow Bell’s Scotch whisky as among award-worthy blended whiskies since the mid-19th century in the United Kingdom; Friday, Dec. 21, 2007, 13:02, image of glass of Bell's finest old Scotch whisky, originally produced by Arthur Bell & Sons Ltd, founded by Perth-born Scottish distiller Arthur Kinmond Bell (AK Bell; Oct. 4, 1868-April 16, 1942): Chris huh, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Dedication

This post is dedicated to the memory of our beloved blue-eyed brother, Charles, who guided the creation of the Met Opera and Astronomy posts on Earth and Space News. We memorialized our brother in "Our Beloved Blue-Eyed Brother, Charles, With Whom We Are Well Pleased," published on Earth and Space News on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, an anniversary of our beloved father's death.

Image credits:

Jane Marple acclaims plum trees that accommodate her achieving her annual after-dinner damson-gin alcohol in The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse. Perhaps she allows Carl Linnaeus (May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778) and Camillo Karl Schneider (April 7, 1876-Jan. 5, 1951) among her scientific-method heroes for their analyzing damson-plum tree parts and trees into scientific classification as Prunus domestica subsp. insititia (from Greek προύνη via Latin prunus, “plum tree”; Latin domus -icus, “native-country pertaining” via domesticus, “domestic, familiar, native, of the house”; Latin insititia, “established”); illustrations of plum cultivars Imperial Gage, Shropshire Damson, Lombard, Maynard and Yellow Egg by Austrian-born, Philadelphia immigrant watercolor artist Alois Lunzer (born 1840) in Brown Brothers Company Continental Nurseries, Trees and Plants for the World Out of Doors (1909), page 14: Library of Congress, Public Domain, Free to Use and Reuse, via Library of Congress Book/Printed Material @ https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcmassbookdig.treesplantsforwo00brow/ (catalog record), @ https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcmassbookdig.treesplantsforwo00brow/?sp=22 (image specific URL); Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Page_14_plum_-_Imperial_Gage,_Shropshire_Damson,_Lombard,_Maynard,_Yellow_Egg.jpg; The Library of Congress is unaware of any copyright restrictions for this item, via Internet Archive @ https://archive.org/details/treesplantsforwo00brow/page/14/mode/1up; Copyright Status: Not provided -- Contact Holding Institution to verify copyright status, via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25125757

Elizabeth Cooper, Jane Marple and Emmeline Strickert arrange themselves around cherry brandy even as Ernest Kemp and his rector assemble around whisky and soda. Perhaps that whisky in The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse attracts two gentlemen who avow Bell’s Scotch whisky as among award-worthy blended whiskies since the mid-19th century in the United Kingdom; Friday, Dec. 21, 2007, 13:02, image of glass of Bell's finest old Scotch whisky, originally produced by Arthur Bell & Sons Ltd, founded by Perth-born Scottish distiller Arthur Kinmond Bell (AK Bell; Oct. 4, 1868-April 16, 1942): Chris huh, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glass_of_Bell%27s.jpg

For further information:

Brickell, Christopher; and Trevor Cole. (Editors-in-Chief). 2002. "Clematis Old man's beard, Travelers' joy." Pages 521-524. The American Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Plants & Flowers. New York NY: DK Publishing, Inc.

Brickell, Christopher; and Trevor Cole. (Editors-in-Chief). 2002. "Phacelia." Page 628. The American Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Plants & Flowers. New York NY: DK Publishing, Inc.

"Clematis crispa." Page 387. In: Hogan, Sean (Chief Consultant). 2003. Flora A Gardener's Encyclopedia. Volume I A-K. Portland Or: Timber Press, Inc.

Cranshaw, Whitney. 2004. "Clematis Chewing insects: margined blister beetle, twobanded Japanese weevil. Sucking insects: garden fleahopper, green peach aphid." Page 588. In: Appendix of Host Plant Genera and Associated Insects and Mites." Pages 577-627. Garden Insects of North America: The Ultimate Guide to Backyard Bugs. Princeton NJ; and Woodstock Oxfordshire UK: Princeton University Press.

Marriner, Derdriu. 29 March 2024. "The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse Airs Birds and Butterflies." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-mystery-of-acid-soil-by-kate-mosse.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 22 March 2024. "Tea Leaves Are Safer in The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2024/03/tea-leaves-are-safer-in-mystery-of-acid.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 15 March 2024. "Jane Marple Ambles About The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2024/03/jane-marple-ambles-about-mystery-of.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 8 March 2024. "The Mystery of the Acid Soil Avails Us of Jane Marple by Kate Mosse." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-mystery-of-acid-soil-avails-us-of.html

Mosse, Kate. 2022. "The Mystery of the Acid Soil." Pages 299-333. In: Agatha Christie. Marple: Twelve New Mysteries. New York NY: William Morrow Imprint, HarperCollins Publishers.

"Phacelia." Pages 1016-1018. In: Hogan, Sean (Chief Consultant). 2003. Flora A Gardener's Encyclopedia. Volume I A-K. Portland Or: Timber Press, Inc.

Sheng, Lu; Kongshu Ji; and Liangliang Yu. 24 September 2014. "Karyotype analysis on 11 species of the genus Clematis." Brazilian Journal of Botany 37(2). Springer. Received 11 March 2014. Accepted 1 September 2014. Published online 24 September 2014. Copyrighted 2014 Botanical Society of Sao Paulo. DOI 10.1007/s40415-014-0099-5
Available @ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ji-Kongshu/publication/280713109_Karyotype_analysis_on_11_species_of_the_genus_Clematis/links/5d9df87e299bf13f40d0c881/Karyotype-analysis-on-11-species-of-the-genus-Clematis.pdf

Sugiura, T. 1940. "Studies on the Chromosome Numbers in Higher Plants. IV." Cytologia 10: 324-333.
Available @ https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/cytologia1929/10/3/10_3_324/_pdf/-char/ja

Tenenbaum, Frances. (Ed.) "Clematis." Pages 98-100. In: Encyclopedia of Garden Plqnts. Taylor's Guides to Gardening. Boston MA; New York NY: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Tenenbaum, Frances. (Ed.) "Phacelia." Page 297. In: Encyclopedia of Garden Plqnts. Taylor's Guides to Gardening. Boston MA; New York NY: Houghton Mifflin Company.

The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse Airs Birds and Butterflies

Summary: The Mystery of the Acid Soil short story by Kate Mosse for Marple: Twelve New Mysteries copyrighted by Agatha Christie Limited airs birds and butterflies.

"God talks to human beings through many vectors: through each other, through organized religion, through the great books of those religions, through wise people, through art and music and literature and poetry, but nowhere with such detail and grace and color and joy as through creation. When we destroy a species, when we destroy a special place, we're diminishing our capacity to sense the divine, understand who God is and what our own potential is." Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., April 19, 2023, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts.

“And there’s many people out there who want us to move to the next planet already and I’m like, hang on, let’s not give up on this planet yet," William, Prince of Wales, July 31, 2023, Sorted Food food truck, London, England, United Kingdom.

Western rooks (Corvus frugilegus frugilegus) affirm for Jane Marple her arrival at the Fishbourne Halt branch train station in The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse; "Corvus frugilegus L. Saat-Rabe," with old and young males (1-altes Männchen, 2-junges Männchen. 1/2 natürl. Grösse), illustrated by Dutch bird illustrator Johannes Gerardus Keulemans (J. G. Keulemans; June 8, 1842-March 29, 1912), in Naturgeschichte der Vögel Mitteleuropas (IV Band [1901], Tafel 14, opposite page 112) by German ornithologist Johann Andreas Naumann (April 13, 1744-May 15, 1826): Public Domain, via Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Mystery of the Acid Soil short story by Kate Mosse for Marple: Twelve New Mysteries copyrighted by Agatha Christie Limited airs area birds and butterflies appreciative of acid- and alkaline-soil gardens.

Jane Marple belongs among those area beautifiers who bring in such beneficial beings as brooding birds and butterflies and bolster beautifully, beneficially barren and non-barren blocks. Agatha Christie Limited captivates us Sep. 13, 2022, with its 14-book Marple Collection member book Marple: Twelve New Mysteries, beneath the HarperCollins Publishers’ William Morrow imprint. Kate Mosse delights us by doing the 11th, next-last chapter, which displays 10 divisions as 299-300, 301-306, 306-313, 313-317, 317-320, 320-321, 321-323, 323-325, 326-327 and 327-333.

Subchapter 2’s western rooks (Corvus frugilegus frugilegus, from Latin corvus frūx legēre, “raven fruit to pick”) establish their nests near the Fishbourne Halt branch train station.

The Sussex regional subspecies favors trees flourishing in fertile fields from which they feed upon such plant material as cereals and such soil-figured invertebrates as grubs.

That Eurasian subspecies perhaps goes over gardens grouping such acid soil-gestating growth as azaleas, rhododendrons and swamp leather-flowers that perhaps guide them to where grains grow. Subchapter 3 has sea gulls whom Jane Marple hears perhaps hunting coast-hugging crustaceans, fish and mollusks before heading for that subchapter’s acid-soil gardens’ live, small birds. Subchapter 4’s alkaline-soil gardens introduce wild-marjoram (Origanum vulgare, from Latin orīganum vulgāre, “marjoram/oregano”) butterflies, perhaps marbled whites (Melanargia galathea, from Greek μέλᾱς γαλάτεια, “dark-black milk-white").

The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse journeys Jane Marple to such Sussex-garden birds and butterflies as rooks and sea gulls, as marbled whites.

Perhaps other butterflies know wild marjoram amidst subchapter 4’s alkaline-gardened blue moss grass, blue-flowering Jacob’s ladder, honeysuckle, lavender, lily of the valley, ornamental clovers and phacelia.

Who other than perhaps rooks and sea gulls (Laridae family, from Greek λάρος -ειδής, “ravenous seabird-like” via Latin larus -idæ) look for birdlets and grubs there? Subchapter 10 mentions Jane Marple outdoors for the dusky evensong of a blackbird species, perhaps the common blackbird (Turdus merula, from Latin turdus merula, “thrush blackbird”). That blackbird perhaps navigates the night-time niches near her or his nest perhaps next to Emmeline Stricket’s acid soil-nourished garden of azaleas, rhododendrons and swamp leather-flower.

The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse offers Jane Marple observing birds over acid soil-occurring gardens and wild marjoram-oriented butterflies on alkaline soil-occurring plants.

Common blackbirds perhaps peregrinate proximitous to the acid soil-provenanced plants of Emmeline Strickert, longtime pal of Jane Marple, for berry- and fruit-producing plants, earthworms and insects.

Birds other than hummingbirds queue around sugar water-quartering nectar of flowering plants even as they quest their moisture in brook, pond, pool waters; berries; and fruits. Wild-marjoram nectar refreshes butterflies such as marbled whites and perhaps common blackbirds, rooks and sea gulls (from Greek λάρος via Latin Larus cānus, “ravenous seabird gray”). Jane Marple stores in her leather handbag gray wool, perhaps sheared from English goats or rabbits or sheep whom alkaline soil-serviced blue moss grass perhaps satisfies.

The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse teams birds, butterflies and Jane Marple with razor blade-transmitted tetanus sometimes, sometimes not threatening acid soil-tempered gardens.

Wild marjoram (Origanum vulgare) assures alkaline-soil gardens of marbled white butterflies (Melanargia galathea) in The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse; dorsal and ventral views of Melanargia galathea by German entomologist Jacob Hübner (June 20, 1761-Sep. 13, 1826) in Das kleine Schmetterlingsbuch: Die Tagfalter (Insel-Bücherei, Nr. 213), page 18, figures 3, 4; Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Dedication

This post is dedicated to the memory of our beloved blue-eyed brother, Charles, who guided the creation of the Met Opera and Astronomy posts on Earth and Space News. We memorialized our brother in "Our Beloved Blue-Eyed Brother, Charles, With Whom We Are Well Pleased," published on Earth and Space News on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, an anniversary of our beloved father's death.

Image credits:

Western rooks (Corvus frugilegus frugilegus) affirm for Jane Marple her arrival at the Fishbourne Halt branch train station in The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse; "Corvus frugilegus L. Saat-Rabe," with old and young males (1-altes Männchen, 2-junges Männchen. 1/2 natürl. Grösse), illustrated by Dutch bird illustrator Johannes Gerardus Keulemans (J. G. Keulemans; June 8, 1842-March 29, 1912), in Naturgeschichte der Vögel Mitteleuropas (IV Band [1901], Tafel 14, opposite page 112) by German ornithologist Johann Andreas Naumann (April 13, 1744-May 15, 1826): Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), Public Domain, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/51068440866/; No known copyright issues, via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34557141; Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rook_paint.jpg

Wild marjoram (Origanum vulgare) assures alkaline-soil gardens of marbled white butterflies (Melanargia galathea) in The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse; dorsal and ventral views of Melanargia galathea by German entomologist Jacob Hübner (June 20, 1761-Sep. 13, 1826) in Das kleine Schmetterlingsbuch: Die Tagfalter (Insel-Bücherei, Nr. 213), page 18, figures 3, 4; Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Melanargia_galathea_-_Schachbrett.jpg; Copyright Status Not provided -- Contact Holding Institution to verify copyright status, via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43194345; via Internet Archive @ https://archive.org/details/daskleineschmett01hubn/page/18/mode/1up

For further information:

Brickell, Christopher; and Trevor Cole. (Editors-in-Chief). 2002. "Clematis Old man's beard, Travelers' joy." Pages 521-524. The American Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Plants & Flowers. New York NY: DK Publishing, Inc.

Brickell, Christopher; and Trevor Cole. (Editors-in-Chief). 2002. "Phacelia." Page 628. The American Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Plants & Flowers. New York NY: DK Publishing, Inc.

"Clematis crispa." Page 387. In: Hogan, Sean (Chief Consultant). 2003. Flora A Gardener's Encyclopedia. Volume I A-K. Portland Or: Timber Press, Inc.

Cranshaw, Whitney. 2004. "Clematis Chewing insects: margined blister beetle, twobanded Japanese weevil. Sucking insects: garden fleahopper, green peach aphid." Page 588. In: Appendix of Host Plant Genera and Associated Insects and Mites." Pages 577-627. Garden Insects of North America: The Ultimate Guide to Backyard Bugs. Princeton NJ; and Woodstock Oxfordshire UK: Princeton University Press.

Marriner, Derdriu. 22 March 2024. "Tea Leaves Are Safer in The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2024/03/tea-leaves-are-safer-in-mystery-of-acid.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 15 March 2024. "Jane Marple Ambles About The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2024/03/jane-marple-ambles-about-mystery-of.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 8 March 2024. "The Mystery of the Acid Soil Avails Us of Jane Marple by Kate Mosse." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-mystery-of-acid-soil-avails-us-of.html

Mosse, Kate. 2022. "The Mystery of the Acid Soil." Pages 299-333. In: Agatha Christie. Marple: Twelve Mysteries. New York NY: William Morrow Imprint, HarperCollins Publishers.

"Phacelia." Pages 1016-1018. In: Hogan, Sean (Chief Consultant). 2003. Flora A Gardener's Encyclopedia. Volume I A-K. Portland Or: Timber Press, Inc.

Sheng, Lu; Kongshu Ji; and Liangliang Yu. 24 September 2014. "Karyotype analysis on 11 species of the genus Clematis." Brazilian Journal of Botany 37(2). Springer. Received 11 March 2014. Accepted 1 September 2014. Published online 24 September 2014. Copyrighted 2014 Botanical Society of Sao Paulo. DOI 10.1007/s40415-014-0099-5
Available @ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ji-Kongshu/publication/280713109_Karyotype_analysis_on_11_species_of_the_genus_Clematis/links/5d9df87e299bf13f40d0c881/Karyotype-analysis-on-11-species-of-the-genus-Clematis.pdf

Sugiura, T. 1940. "Studies on the Chromosome Numbers in Higher Plants. IV." Cytologia 10: 324-333.
Available @ https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/cytologia1929/10/3/10_3_324/_pdf/-char/ja

Tenenbaum, Frances. (Ed.) "Clematis." Pages 98-100. In: Encyclopedia of Garden Plqnts. Taylor's Guides to Gardening. Boston MA; New York NY: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Tenenbaum, Frances. (Ed.) "Phacelia." Page 297. In: Encyclopedia of Garden Plqnts. Taylor's Guides to Gardening. Boston MA; New York NY: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Tea Leaves Are Safer in The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse

Summary: Tea leaves are safer in The Mystery of the Acid Soil short story by Kate Mosse for Marple: Twelve New Mysteries copyrighted by Agatha Christie Limited.

"God talks to human beings through many vectors: through each other, through organized religion, through the great books of those religions, through wise people, through art and music and literature and poetry, but nowhere with such detail and grace and color and joy as through creation. When we destroy a species, when we destroy a special place, we're diminishing our capacity to sense the divine, understand who God is and what our own potential is." Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., April 19, 2023, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts.

“And there’s many people out there who want us to move to the next planet already and I’m like, hang on, let’s not give up on this planet yet," William, Prince of Wales, July 31, 2023, Sorted Food food truck, London, England, United Kingdom.

Jane Marple appreciates hot tea with her acquaintance, Emmeline Strickert. Tea trees such as the applauded Camellia sinensis are amenable to English ambiances such as those in the Chichester area that assembles the two acquaintances for The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse: illustration of "Camellia Thea Lk.," in Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen Atlas (Band II [1898], Tafeln 136), based upon original in Berlin by German botanical illustrator Carl Friedrich Schmidt (1811-1890), with (center) naturally-sized flowering branch, (lower left) cross-section of flower and (lower right) fruits with seeds: Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), Public Domain, via Flickr

Tea leaves are safer than razor blades for Jane Marple in The Mystery of the Acid Soil short story by Kate Mosse for Marple: Twelve New Mysteries copyrighted by Agatha Christie Limited.

Agatha Christie Limited brings us Sep. 13, 2022, to its 14-book Marple Collection, the book Marple: Twelve New Mysteries, beneath the HarperCollins Publishers’ William Morrow imprint. The Kate Mosse contribution claims the 11th, next-last chapter, which she constructs as 10 configurations 299-300, 301-306, 306-313, 313-317, 317-320, 320-321, 321-323, 323-325, 326-327 and 327-333. The first division, in its next-last sentence, delivers us a jasmine hedge that distracts Jane Marple with its possible daring to “run riot” (Mosse: page 300).

The second subchapter entertains us with Jane Marple employing her trees with their cherry and their plum-like damson fruits to enjoy cherry brandy and damson gin.

The third subchapter furnishes us with ornamentally horticultural features of trailing roses figuring around a “flint-faced” (Mosse:306) door and of lavender flourishing along the cottage path.

That same subchapter 3 greets us with the black-green, waxy foliage of such acid soil-growable, back yard-growing plants as azaleas, rhododendrons and swamp leatherflowers (Clematis crispa). It has in that same back yard a cane table and two wicker chairs, the former and the latter of which herald from the rattan vine. It invokes edible grains in barley, corn, rye or wheat ingredients in its whisky imbibed by Dr. J. Barden and white oak in that whisky’s aging.

Subchapter 4 of The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse joins marmalade, tea leaves and toast from orange and tea trees and corn-/rye-/wheat-floured bread.

The fourth subchapter keepsakes an unknown species of ash tree in Jane Marple’s ash walking stick even as it knows no garden moss and thatch species.

The aforementioned Salthill Road garden lodges lily of the valley; mauve-blooming phacelia, which leads to improved soil health and quality; ornamental clovers; and butterfly-loving wild marjoram. It manifests blue-flowering Jacob’s ladder; blue moss grass; lavender maintained along its paths; and honeysuckle even as subchapter 4 and subchapter 10 mention its lime pits. Alkaline soil-needy plants such as those niched in the Cooper garden necessitate alkali nutrients in the burned or the watered chalk or limestone from lime pits.

The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse observes tea leaves safer than razor blades for acid, below-7, and lime pits for alkaline above-7, pH.

Subchapters 3 and 4 respectively present wicker chairs and house thatching as willow-, rattan-, reed- or bamboo-provenanced and as straw-, water reed-, sedge-, rush- or palm-provenanced.

Subchapter 7 quarters maize-, malted barley-, oat, rice- or wheat-provenanced beer; pine-needle-provenanced tobacco even as subchapters 3 and 10 queue barley-, corn-, rye- or wheat-provenanced whisky. Unrecognized plant parts such as non-woody and woody leaves, woody-plant needles and bush, shrub, tree and vine bark realize high-temperature fires that render alkaline soil-pH ranges. Subchapter 7 shelters semi-acid, semi-alkaline soil-seeking lilacs and, similarizing subchapter 3, acid soil-seeking rhododendrons even as subchapter 10, similarizing subchapter 1, showcases acid soil-seeking jasmine hedge.

The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse travels through one alkaline soil-trending garden and two acid soil-trending gardens, one safer through tetanus-proof tea leaves.

Jane Marple and Emmeline Strickert perhaps assign to orange trees (Citrus sinensis) an assuaging association for assuring them their tea-time marmalade in The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse; "Oranger de Majorque, Arancio di Majorca," illustrated by Pierre-Antoine Poiteau (March 23, 1766-Feb. 27, 1854), French botanist, gardener and botanical artist, in Histoire et culture des orangers (nouvelle édition, MDCCCLXXII [1872], Tab. 14; 19. Planche XIV, pages 30-31), co-authored with Niçois naturalist Giuseppe Antonio Risso (April 8, 1777-Aug. 25, 1845): Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Dedication

This post is dedicated to the memory of our beloved blue-eyed brother, Charles, who guided the creation of the Met Opera and Astronomy posts on Earth and Space News. We memorialized our brother in "Our Beloved Blue-Eyed Brother, Charles, With Whom We Are Well Pleased," published on Earth and Space News on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, an anniversary of our beloved father's death.

Image credits:

Jane Marple appreciates hot tea with her acquaintance, Emmeline Strickert. Tea trees such as the applauded Camellia sinensis are amenable to English ambiances such as those in the Chichester area that assembles the two acquaintances for The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse: illustration of "Camellia Thea Lk.," in Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen Atlas (Band II [1898], Tafeln 136), based upon original in Berlin by German botanical illustrator Carl Friedrich Schmidt (1811-1890), with (center) naturally-sized flowering branch, (lower left) cross-section of flower and (lower right) fruits with seeds (Tafelbeschreibung: A blühender Zweig, natürl. Grösse; 1 Blüthe im Längsschnitt, vergrössert; 2 Staubgefäss, desgl.; 3 Fruchtknoten im Querschnitt, desgl.; 4 Stempel mit Kelch, desgl.; 5 u. 6 reife Frucht von verschiedenen Seiten, mit Samen, natürl. Grösse; 7 Same mit Bindrücken der verkümmerten Samenknospen, desgl.; 8 derselbe zerschnitten, desgl.; 9 Embryo, desgl. Nach einter Originalzeichnung des Herrn Professor Schmidt in Berlin): Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), Public Domain, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/61021753@N02/8231734373/; Public Domain, via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/303208; Public Domain, via Internet Archive @ https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002839121/page/136/mode/1up; Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santalum_album_-_Köhler–s_Medizinal-Pflanzen-128.jpg

Jane Marple and Emmeline Strickert perhaps assign to orange trees (Citrus sinensis) an assuaging association for assuring them their tea-time marmalade in The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse; "Oranger de Majorque, Arancio di Majorca," illustrated by Pierre-Antoine Poiteau (March 23, 1766-Feb. 27, 1854), French botanist, gardener and botanical artist, in Histoire et culture des orangers (nouvelle édition, MDCCCLXXII [1872], Tab. 14; 19. Planche XIV, pages 30-31), co-authored with Niçois naturalist Giuseppe Antonio Risso (April 8, 1777-Aug. 25, 1845): Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Histoire_et_culture_des_orangers_A._Risso_et_A._Poiteau._--_Paris_Henri_Plon,_Editeur,_1872.jpg; Public Domain, Google-digitized, via HathiTrust @ https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.086806206&seq=283; via Google Read free of charge @ https://www.google.com/books/edition/Histoire_et_culture_des_orangers/gwc0AQAAMAAJ

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Marriner, Derdriu. 15 March 2024. "Jane Marple Ambles About The Mystery of the Acid Soil by Kate Mosse." Earth and Space News. Friday.
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