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Re: [SANS] Merry Christmas!

>On 22/12/97 Crasulady asks "Why don't we hear from you more often?"
>
>Therefore are different reasons to mention.
>The first is that I don't have a computer at home, so I have to use
>"time of the big boss" but he doesn't appreciate it very much.
>( Of course Santa did forget me again this past year and that's
>also the reason why I'm responding now, after the holidays!)
>The second is I'm so terrible busy that I even almost haven't time
>to eat or sleep at all, but that's a problem of all of us, I suppose
>and last but not least my knowledge about Sans is very poor.
>All I know comes from the article of Juan Chahinian in Succulenta
>(the Dutch cacti journal), his trifasciatabook and the
>succulent lexicon of Jacobsen and of course my own
>experience. But as I say on my windowsills they don't course
>any trouble.
>That brings me to Hermine's question about Sans in the Netherlands.
>Sometimes I'm thinking I'm the only who loves Sans here.
>O sure, in almost every Dutch livingroom you can find a "common"
>Laurentii or Hahnii, more or less as decoration but that's it! It's a
>very
>dull plant here most people says!
>And in the greencenters (if you are lucky) you can sometimes come
>across,
>besides lots of trifasciata's, a golden- or silverhahnii, but that's it
>too.
>If you want a special ( thus a non-trifasciata) you can find absolutely
>nothing there!
>So I'm depending on a few little nurseries like Donkelaar, Frans Noltee
>and Paul Hoogvliet.
>Puh! It has been a rather long story I believe!
>B.T.W. Do you know how a laurentii also is called in the Netherlands?
>Tongue of a woman! ( I only can guess why! )
>
Hmmm I got some interesting stuff from Van Donkelaar perhaps 20 years ago.
Not only Sansevierias but odd ceropegias nd other succulents. the cuttings
wee exceedingly tiny but i managed to root them and still have some of them
even today. does he still do mail order? if so is his address handy?

hermine
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