And after Thrice...

What comes after once, twice, thrice?  Nothing.  These three are the only words of their type and no further terms in the series have ever existed. There are many researchers out there and the anitmoon.com forum had a post on this, claiming there is a series from Wiktionary.  It turned out to be unverifiable.  However, the entertainment is excellent: ... Wiktionary's list of protologisms as terms coming after "once" for "one time", "twice" for "two times" and "thrice" for "three times".  quarce: Four times  quince: Five times  sess: Six times  sepce: Seven times  okce: Eight times  nince: Nine times  dekce: Ten times  elfce: Eleven times  duss: Twelve times  baikce: Thirteen times" Thrice has fallen out of favour and common usage. Its usage has fallen steadily since 1810, so we can conclude it is no longer in common usage.  I found a reference to this in another response in an English language forum.  It claims that the last straw for the expression thrice occurred in It Happened on the Way to the Forum.  The blame is put Zero Mostel with his witty line "He raped Thrace thrice". A comeback may be on the way:  when William and Kate had their third baby, William was buckling his new son's car seat into the car. He had a short interaction with the adoring media and crowd outside of the hospital, where he held up three fingers and joked, "Thrice the worry now!" There are at least 2 thrice jokes: Jarul goes to church and he decided to get baptized. The pastor dipped him thrice in the baptizimal pool and said, "You are baptized in the name of the father, and of the son and of the holy spirit. From now on you are no longer to be called Jarul but Joseph, and you should never drink beer again." Jarul went home and took a cold pint of beer, recalling what the pastor said he headed for the kitchen and dipped the pint of beer in a bowl of water thrice saying from now on you are nolonger to be called Budweiser but orange juice.  And another: Q. What happens when a lion roars thrice? A. Tom & Jerry cartoon begins. I drove to Acton yesterday to see Lost Horizons - a garden nursery with beautiful display gardens  It was definitely worth the drive to Acton.

Tunnel Vision

This is one of the Bakker's growing fields of nursery stock. This one is near Brian's Lilycrest Gardens hybridizing field. As far as you can see little trees on white stakes.  What is most enjoyable is their 150 varieties of roses blooming in the summer.  According to their web site, they have 450 acres of soil in parcels of land of 6 to 58 acres all within 3 miles of the home yard. Interesting that in their introduction to the company, they indicate that land costs are $35,000 per acre.  Here's their 2016 catalogue: http://www.jcbakker.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/ReferenceGuide_2016_Web.pdf

Grimsby Gardens - Cole's Nursery

Hi everyone,

I am lucky to have an old-fashioned garden centre in my neighbourhood in Grimsby.  This means that it still has summer perennials, annuals, and trees and shrubs for sale.  They actually get new plants in so I can spruce up my planters.

This is in contrast to the other greenhouses - Seaway on Lakeshore has cleared the greenhouses out of summer stock and has started the Poinsettias.  Sunshine's is 3/4's empty with gift pot plants, herbs, etc in the front section.  Almost all the perennials disappeared just over a week ago, probably to the hoop houses for repotting.  Of course the big box stores have eliminated the summer plant section.   I was at Valleybrook Nurseries, the wholeale perennial growers in the spring, and there were oceans of Superstore pots going off to delivery - what a lot of plants must be sold by the Supercentres.  

Cole's has a mass show of colour out front, including a lovely garden in front of the Christmas Cottage.  I took pictures on the weekend of the gardens, as they are recipients of a commercial Trillium award for 2014. I realized how big the beds are, and how many interesting plant selections there are in the beds this year.  Walking along the beds brought the realization of the care and creativity that went into the designs. 

Here's an extract of this history of this wonderful florist/greenhouse operation, including a picture of the original greenhouse:

Providing Fine Flowers For Over 100 Years In 1891 Albert Edward Cole erected a 1,000 sqft greenhouse on the former sawmill property in Grimsby, and grew violets and vegetables. A.E. Cole’s three sons were involved at an early age selling vegetables and later delivering flowers by foot, horse and buggy or the street car that ran along Highway 8. By 1930 the greenhouse was expanded to 25,000 sqft of the property! Cole’s three sons, John, Gordon and Norman, purchased the business in 1932 and more expansion followed as the floral industry grew. The children and grandchildren all worked to make it Cole’s a success! In 1957 Norman Cole & Elizabeth became sole owners of the business and they ran the business together for 29 years. After 95 years of family ownership, Cole’s Florist was sold to Harry DeVries in 1986. See more at: http://www.colesflorist.ca/history.php Here we are in 2014, enjoying the wonderful gardens.