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Re: Burrendong Arboretum

Sean A. O'Hara wrote:
> Hi Moira -
>
> I always enjoy seeing your posts - so thoughtful and informational.

Me likewise - perhaps we should start a mutual admiration society!!

 I found this on the Web:
> "Burrendong Arboretum is 25 Kms from Wellington overlooking Lake Burrendong.
> The arboretum is open every day. For enquiries, contact the curator on (02) > 6846 7454 or write to the Burrendong Arboretum, Mumbil via Wellington, N.S.W
> So it sound like there is also a Wellington in N.S.W. - not hard for a
> foriegn editor to mistake that for N.Z. perhaps.

Well, that certainly explains things. It didn't occur to me there might
be a Wellington in Oz too. 

> I find so many mistakes in books all of the time, usually my eye finds
> inaccurate botanical latin caption under plant photos (I seem to be able  to 'tell' the differences between plants rather easily, even if I'm not > sure what they are myself). 

Yes, reversing of captions seems to be a common problem. There is at
least one example in the Medit Gardening I noticed, but for most keen
gardeners such as yourself this would be pretty minor. I probably tend
to be a bit over-fussy about it myself because of being a botanist by
trade.

 It must be completely nerve-racking to > edit books, chasing down
thousands of details.  And then they are finally printed only to reveal
those mistakes missed - now in print for > posterity!!!  Perhaps why
I've never published!!  ;-)

I remember the first book I wrote(on organic gardening) which was given
to an editor who had never heard of bonedust and queried it most
suspiciously!

Moira
-- 
Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata, New Zealand
"Old" is 10 years older than I am.
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