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Re: [SANS] Questions and Thank yous

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>So Juan and Hermine, I just need to ask.  Are either of you two in the
>process of making a new monograph of the species? Also, if so, would it
>include color pictures, All known sports, varieties, and hyrbrids, and
>stories like the leopard bat one(dare to dream). This is truly
>priceless information. Just think of going down in history with the
>likes of Mr. Brown!


I am not scholarly in the way of folks who write real monographs. my way is
to take that sort of information and write it conversationally so that a
regular person without a degree in horticulture can understand it. whereas
monographs presume you already   KNOW what them big words mean.
Now, I have been photographing my plants since that first book, and it is
fun to see that some of the plants shown as 3 inch clumps are now 4-7 feet
tall, and i have kept up with the name changes, recording them as they went
through various debates. and this work is in a big box in a drawer, and
will ultimately get printed. in fact, self-publishing...and my major
problem was getting the books physically GLUED together at the spine...has
become much more simple and affordable since 1983. So the answer is this
highly qualified yes. as soon as i get some time to lay myself down on the
drafting table and turn this into a thing which is in a computer...we seem
to have had a technical revolution of great magnitude. I know i have a
place in history as the most highly tattooed person to write about
Sansevieria, and this is what really matters to me!

But others are far more qualified to write a monograph. i would have to
kidnap my degreed botanist cousin to turn my stuff into a monograph. she
said, mysteriously  not mentioning the name Jim Bauml.....

hermine
ps, more stuff down here


>Let's talk sports.  Do all species put out sports like trifasciata or
>is that the most variable species in the group?


in my opinion the more you grow something the greater the chances are of
sports. so if there were acres devoted to growing patens or something else,
the chances of sports would be far greater.

>   Do they all have the
>possibility of this or is there something in their makeup that might
>hold them back?


Dunno.


>Thanks for the Mason Congo/Hyacinthoides info.  It cleared things up
>for me.
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>Hermine, was there ever a suplement written for your book.  Any other
>corrections for it besides the stuckyii/leopard bat one.  maybe id for
>the rogues gallery?  Any info is much apreciated.


Like i said above, the work never stops, and what is scrawled in notebooks
eventually becomes printed. and i have never stopped collecting or scrawling.
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