Re: Amaryllis?? now seeds across the border

Well. maybe we could smuggle them in after a bus trip up there to get
prescriptions.  

Kitty

> [Original Message]
> From: jim singer <jsinger@igc.org>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 12/13/2002 4:16:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Amaryllis?? now seeds across the border
>
> i agree, margaret, the time has indeed passed. but i think our "congress 
> critters" can't read and don't care. now, if we formed a pac that bribed 
> them, we might get their attention. but only briefly. the big bribes come 
> from pharmaceutical and energy pacs, not seed pacs [seed pacs? i gotta be 
> kidding].
>
>
> At 12:08 PM 12/13/02 -0700, you wrote:
> >Folks, it would be illegal for him to send seeds to the U.S.  I don't
like 
> >this ban on imported seeds at all, but the time for us to have done 
> >something about it (if possible) was before the USDA set this one in 
> >stone.  Write to your congress critters and raise hell.  Margaret L
> >
> >>  re:  "On Fri 12/13, Kitty &lt; kmrsy@earthlink.net &gt; 
> >> wrote:  Haemanthus albiflos really sounds like a fun plant Brian.
Would 
> >> it be a realhassle to send seed over the border?  I'd pay for it."
> >>
> >>Yeah, if it's not too much of a hassle, I'd sure like some too and
ditto 
> >>on the paying for it, Brian, please...sounds like my kids would love
this 
> >>and would be a great introduction to the world of amarylloids (sp?)
> >>
> >>Melody, IA (Z 5/4)
> >>
> >>"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
> >>--Albert Einstein
> >
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