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Originally Posted by Dennis Lukes

Sorry Brother future-Sir Larry, but these false Christians really get me fired up, especially this inbred Anglican Popess... Sorry again. I'm not sure how I feel about you subjecting yourself to such a woman, but if Jesus is guiding your actions, I would not dare to question it. Still, beware the wicked Windsors!

Wise advice Brother Lukes, but when you consider that the Queen's successor is none other than nutter Prince Charles you just might want to sing a verse of "God Save the Queen".

While the pope whiles his limited time away talking to commie chinks, mooselimbs, and indigenous Amazon rain forest tribes - the vegetable brain Prince Charles talks to plants.

While it's disconcerting that no one seems to want to talk to Jesus these days, it might be an improvement at the CofE if Charles replaced all the top clergy with potted plants.

Prince of Wales talked to plants: scientists test if it works

Two decades after the Prince of Wales revealed that he talked to plants the Royal Horticultural Society is conducting a study into how they are affected by the human voice.

By Nick Allen
8:26AM BST 31 Mar 2009

The prince said it was "very important" to talk to plants and that they "respond" when spoken to.

His comments were ridiculed by many but the RHS is now trying to determine if he was right by reading works of literature to tomato plants.

Open auditions will be held tomorrow at the RHS garden in Wisley, Surrey to find suitable voices to make recordings of Shakespeare's verse and John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids.

The recordings will be played to ten plants, around the clock, through the headphones of an MP3 player attached to their pots at root level.

The plants will be measured before, during and after the experiment and a set of control plants will be left in silence.

James Rudoni, the head of Wisley, told the Times: "One of the primary functions of the RHS is scientific research into plants and how to get them to grow better. Prince Charles talks to plants. Let's see if there's something in this."

Colin Crosbie, a gardens superintendent at Wisley, said: "I'm a great believer. I definitely talk to plants. Most gardeners are quite tactile and we do talk to them. Sometimes we talk kindly and sometimes we threaten them.

"There are times with a plant when you say 'If you don't do something this is the end. You are not producing flowers. I'm very sorry, it's going to be the compost heap.' - It's amazing how they respond,"

Trevor Cox, a professor of acoustics at the University of Salford, told the Times: "It appears that low-frequency sound might vibrate the plant and so affect its growth."

On that basis he recommended it would be best to use a voice similar to that of Barry White to read to the plants.

In the experiment the plants will be read Oberon's speech in A Midsummer Night's Dream that begins: "I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardenin...-it-works.html