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Seasons greetings

Hermine's message has prompted us rather belatedly to respond and decloak
(was glad to see there is at least one other Trekky in the group) . We
follow the exchanges, but due to work pressures do not always have time to
contribute.

First of all congratulations to Stephen Jankalski on such a fine bit of
research. It would make a good basis for the genus revision which is so
badly needed. Although we are far away in England, please bear in mind we
hold the UK  National Collection of Sansevierias, and may be able to help
with information.

Here in England it is fairly mild but very wet and overcast, not good for
the plants, although everything is grown on heating cables, and we maintain
15C (about 60F) in the greenhouse. Generally plants come through OK apart
from the odd variegate, which sometimes collapses without warning.

Some Sansevierias are trying to flower even now - bacularis/sulcata, and
'Fernwood' for example. We had a lot of flowers this year on the various
clones of S.forskaoliana from Yemen, and have set seeds. We are growing
more & more from seed these days, and as Hermine (I think it was) pointed
out, they are very attractive as seedlings.

We look forward to 1999 and the new season. Our next Sansevieria Convention
will be in 2000 and we are working on it to ensure lots of interest.
Sansevierias are definately getting more popular thanks I think to the
various articles being written by people like Juan. How about a new book
someone??

Happy New Year to you all!

Alan Butler, Brookside Nursery, Horsham, England
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