Value for money
- To: hosta list
- Subject: Value for money
- From: z*
- Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 10:23:29 +0100
Dear Hosta friends
A happy new year to you all with a lot of new hosta information.
The Hosta journal should contain articles about Hosta ( I suppose
at least a few would agree here) and the yearbook all other hosta
related information So lets see in the last issue what I get for my
$51 before I send the money.
FIrst it starts with 12 pages without hardly a hosta mentioned that
should be reduced to at most one, the remainder should go to the
yearbook. The same is true for the 6 pages of Awards and the 17
pages describing tour gardens ( They were all nice people with nice
gardens and excellent refreshments) Then we have 13 full pages
with advertisements that should be separate at the end of the
journal, like in many garden journals. Then we have 16 more pages
with a free advertisement for BAP announcing for the fifth time that
BAP will get you more shoots. Then we have 8 pages with two
articles of Black and Pollock that are old news as they appeared
earlier in the British journal . This leaves me with 110-73 = 37
pages of new hosta articles. Is this value for money?
At least the now omitted new registrations contained new
information about hosta. I estimate that more names of people are
in the last journal than names of Hosta!
Space could be made for all the above in the yearbook by omitting
descriptions of the yearly activities (not the officers etc) of the
regional societies. Just some fresh thoughts at the start of the new
millennium.
Ben J.M.Zonneveld
Clusius lab pobox 9505
2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands
mintemp-16C(5F)
Zonneveld@RULbim.LeidenUniv.NL
Fax: 31-71-5274999
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