Re: planning trip to Calif -now the book...

It's by Max J. Schuster and Gregg Peterson. I think it was self published [Peterson Publishing]. Big 9" by 12" paperback, 246 pages + or -, indexed, with a glossary. It's really a great book if you want to prowl around the Capitol grounds. It's copyrighted 1982 and boasts a price of $9.95. One plant per page. A typical page contains common name [and synonyms[; botanical name; notes on the plant's family; where to find it [plants are numbered and keyed to maps]; where it's native to; descriptions of bark, wood, leaves, flowers, fruit, seed; chemistry [odd uses, such as hair oil made from camellia seeds]; and a place to jot your own notes. Maybe the best $10 I've ever spent, except it's of no use to me now; very unlikely I'll get back to Sacramento in this lifetime.

On Friday, February 18, 2005, at 06:57 AM, Donna wrote:

Sounds like a book you should pick up for future
referance. If Jim thinks it is detailed, well, then
.... so who produced the book?

Donna

--- pdickson <pdickson@sbcglobal.net> wrote:


Jim,
Thank you so much for the offer but I wouldn't think
of borrowing your book.
You are great though to offer.
Tricia
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From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] planning trip to Calif



Capitol grounds double as the state arboretum.

Definitely worth a  couple

of hours. There's a book, "Capitol Park Trees,"

that's a guide  to the

grounds, complete with layout maps and detailed

information  about nearly

every tree there. If you'd like to borrow my copy

for your  trip, send me

your address off list.



On Thursday, February 17, 2005, at 03:15 PM, Judy

L Browning wrote:



We were in Sacramento 9 or 10 years ago with our



car club. I remember



some
neat old government building & grounds down town



then. The capitol?  help



me
out you Californians. Lovely wetlands along the



river.



Judy B
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Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 11:05 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] planning trip to Calif





David,
My sister lives around Santa Monica.  I want to



spend some time  around



San
Francisco and if time permits I would love to



see the Redwood Forest.



I want to see and do it all but I know that



isn't possible.  I will



look



up



the Golden Gate park and Fioli.
thank you,
Tricia
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Franzman" <dfranzma@pacbell.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] planning trip to Calif





Hi Tricia

Uh, where's Monticito?  Is that a part of



Sacramento?  Anyway, if you



come



west from Sac. then I can suggest a really



great Hibiscus nursery...



: ).



Just kidding.  Theresa may know of more areas



in the Sac. area  however



if



you are coming down more toward the Bay Area



then I can give you some



really nice gardens.  Golden Gate Park has a



few and then there is



Filoli



which is down the penninsula a little bit.



That is really a treat.



If you do come this way let me know and if



you'd like to see the hibs



you



are welcome anytime.

DF
http://www.atouchofthetropics.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "pdickson" <pdickson@sbcglobal.net>
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Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 7:06 AM
Subject: [CHAT] planning trip to Calif





I am working on planning a trip to Calif in



April for 10 days.  We



will
fly in and out of Sacramento. We will rent a



card so that we can



drive



to



my sisters place in Monticito.
 I was hoping some of you could recommend some



great gardening  things



to



see and do while we are there.
This is a trip for our 20th anniversary.
Thank you in advance for any help!
Tricia







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