Put lipstick on a pig (again) and cherry up

[Benjamin Barrett]

The picture at http://www.freebackgrounds.com/photos_A000017.html is
beauty bark, as viewed at very close range and fits your description, as
I know it (though perhaps not as ground down as you mean). The other
photo
(http://www.thegardenhelper.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php/topic/53/47.html) is
too far too tell. BB

FRITZ JUENGLING wrote:
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> Don't tell me the Columbia is an isogloss! But that stuff in the pix
> warn't no bark dust!!!
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>>>> gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM 3/19/2007 2:55 PM >>>
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> Being a Washingtonian, I'm surprised to hear that. I've known the word
> "beauty bark" since I was a young child, probably 35 years ago. I've
> always assumed it to be a product name, but it seems pretty generic
> from
> Googits.
>
> Your description of bark dust is identical to what I think of as
> beauty
> bark. BB
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>> Bark dust is somewhat finely ground bark (usually a
>> reddish-brown color), that nearly everyone in the Pacific Northwest
>> spreads on his flower beds for looks and to keep the weeds in check.
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