Here's a short description for those who haven't received theirs yet, or for
those who don't subscribe.
The new masthead color for this year is green.
The front cover shows a painting of Dionaea. The back cover is a close-up
photo of a cricket caught in a Dionaea trap.
The special announcement is made for the CP gathering in Lakeport, New York
- near Syracuse.
Gordon's seed bank list is printed. This one is dated May 1992. Some
interesting seeds include N. ventricosa x (inermis x bongso) - this was
offered over a year ago. I don't know if this is a remake of the hybrid or
if its old seed. He also has seeds available for 4 species of Nepenthes -
khasiana, mirabilis, rafflesiana, and ventricosa. These species are fairly
common. He also has a S. leucophylla (almost white), D. glanduligera,
lots of D. linearis and villosa. They are only $1 a pack and available only
to CPN subscribers.
There is a list of seed bank donors - top donor gave 404 packs. Rob Maharajh
is up there with 169 packs and Barry gave 80 packs. Total packs received
between August 1990 and February 1992 was 2458.
There's a short half-page article from Miloslav Studnicka. He announced a
new Pinguicula hybrid - Pinguicula "Gina". This is a hybrid between zecheri
and agnata. There's a picture of the new hybrid's flower - shaped like
moranensis flower with light-lavender around the outermost portion, turning
to white toward the center, then turning dark lavender in the center. The
plant itself measures 15 cm across.
Next, comes a two-page article on U. nephrophylla. There seems to be two
types around that the author calls "Rio do Janeiro" and "Roraima". The former
has leaves 5 mm wide (misprinted 5 cm on the drawing) and the latter has leaves
1 cm. wide.
After this, there's a five-page article by some guy named Barry Meyers-Rice.
The article is named "Focusing of U. calycifida - a Variable Species". Barry
mentions the two types - "purple-veins" and "spotted flower". No mention of
the other types that I remember Barry telling us about that looks like
"purple veins" but whose leaves have wavy margins. There's also a drawing
included of a Utric flower - done by "Meyers-Rice^2".
Next is a four-page article, "Mechanisms of Trap Movement 1: Rapid Growth in
Drosera, Dionaea and Scientific Notions of How Venus's Flytraps Close".
Next is a seven-page article, "Growth Effects of Mineral Nutrients Applied to
the Substrate or onto the Leaves in Four Carnivorous Plant Species". Seems
that after the plants were given the nutrients and grown for awhile, the
nutrient content of the plants exceeded the amount they were given.
Apparently, the difference came from other nutrients in the soil, perhaps
because the artificial nutrients given caused the roots to work more
efficiently.
Lastly, there's a 14 page article "The Seasonal Bog Garden". The author
lives in York, PA and the article describes his outdoor bog garden. He
mentions that he replaces all live sphagnum on the surface of the bog every
year and during the winter, puts his plants in cold storage at $20 per month.