Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 10th August 2022, 3:24 PMI had a discount garden business in the 80s and would often have old boys coming in asking for nicotine, but one stumped me one day when he asked for Paris Green, which I'd never heard of.
On making enquiries I found out it was a name for arsenic. Pre-war gardening was a dangerous business,
Mind you, I was selling some pretty lethal stuff then in the 80s, which you can no longer buy, such as SBK (brushwood killer) - a very strong weedkiller, that was a "watered down" version of Agent Orange, they used in Vietnam, of course.
Shame you can no longer get the original one as it was certain death for stubborn shrubbery etc.