[PW] Re: New Phrase?

[Bye, Dan J]

Oh, I thought we were looking for the phrase, not just "fire flowers" in
general.  I was trumping 1999, not 1950.

If we're just looking for "fire flowers", I can beat 1950 easily.

There's E. Pauline Johnson's poem "Fire-Flowers", for a start. She died
in 1913, and I think it might possibly have been written in 1903 or
thereabouts. But I'm not sure.
Granted the context is not that of an alien planet, just Canada.

Dan

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> 
> I did not cite the story properly.
>    
>   This story was titled, "Night Meeting (August 2002)" and 
> appeared in "The Martian Chronicles", published in 1950 by 
> Ray Bradbury. It is the only full-length story in "The 
> Martian Chronicles" not previously appearing in another publication.
> 
> "Bye, Dan J" <D.J.Bye at shu.ac.uk> wrote:
>   
> I have an earlier use of the phrase from Usenet, a posting in 
> comp.sys.mac.programmer by Murat N. Konar, dated 12 Sept 
> 1988. Right at the end of the message, Konar says: "Many 
> thanks and a garland of Martian Fire Flowers in advance."
> 
> See: http://qurl.com/c6mv6
> 
> Dan