Trash

**"* C* <d*@chilitech.net>**

Someone just gave me a copy of Birds and Blooms magazine. It epitomizes

everything that is wrong with garden writing these days. It took perhaps

three minutes to get through it, page by page, front to back cover. There is

only the most elementary information, and not much of that. It is written

for people who stumble over Dick and Jane.

It seems to be mostly, if not all, reader written. The longest written

piece, not counting bullet points, is the four paragraph Contributor's

Guidelines. It includes this line: "We reserve the right to modify,

reproduce and distribute the material in any medium and in any manner or

appropriate place." And this without any payment. (As a matter of contract

law, doesn't such a broad use require some consideration to be valid?)

As you can tell, it has made me angry. Is this where Horticulture is headed

down the road?

D

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