Barry Meyers-Rice here, back from a two month absence.
It's been a good two months, in which my wife, dog, and I drove around
the Southeast US looking for CPs, old friends, older relatives, and
good food. We logged 6000 miles on the Toyota truck without a mishap.
I've just finished slogging through the mail (Thanks to Ed McMahon for
filling my mailbox) and have wrestled most of my email into submission.
First thing is a word or two on the 6000+ lines of CP email Rick was
good enough to archive for me in my absense. Then I'll bring ya'll up
to date on what we saw on our trip.....
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David McConachie:
I don't suppose you have any D. arcturi seed left, eh?
>I was walking by a flower shop/nursery in San Francisco and happened to
>peek into their bucket of cut flowers. Along with the standard cut
>flowers, they also had CUT pitchers of Sarracenia Leucophylla. I have
Tom: whenever I see any _Sarracenia_ pitchers in florist shops (and
I look for them) I raise hell. I tell them that the plants are considered
endangered, are delicate wetland species, and they are contributing to
their extinction. Then I ask for the address of their distributor. I usually
end up talking to some manager, and a few letters get sent.
RAISE HELL!
>Everyone wants linearis, and minor "Okee Giant" :-). However
>there seems to be some problems with getting them. For one,
I've been growing _D.linearis successfuly in Arizona, paying careful
attention to light and dormancy requirements. They have been growing larger
each year...
And as for _S.minor_ 'Okee giant' my plants are large and unlike any normal
_S.minor_. I make a point of getting selfed seed from it every year. I
have seen the 'Okee giant' plants in the wild, and they are identical to
mine.
Michael "Bland Rosettes" Chamberland the third! Good to have you back on the
list! Good to have me back on the list too!
>light (too bad Barry isn't here to give us the equation!). Three feet will
Rick: I am pleased to see you carry on the tradition! I'll pore over your
derivation with glee. You have outdone even me, for I was planning on just
writing (before reading your treatment), "Eh, the 1/r^2 rule works for a
point source, the 1/r rule for an infinitely long line, a fluorescent bulb
would fall somewhere between them."
This Uwe Westphal business sounds interesting. Could it be the
true leuc alba? And what is this _S.purpurea_ 'Giant' nonsense?
Barry