Re: Marge's article in The American Gardener.

In a message dated 2/1/02 5:10:04 PM Eastern Standard Time, mtalt@clark.net 
writes:

<< Well, Claire, if it's been a year or two since you saw a copy, you
 might change your mind...it's improved quite a bit.  Always has
 something of regional interest around the country and more than one
 good article...mine was the tag end one:)  You can buy copies on some
 newsstands...probably in relatively major cities. >>

Thanks, Marge.  You are always up to date.  It seemed to me that there was 
always a lot of membership news, pages and pages of it, awards, bios and and 
that sort of stuff.   Most of the Journals now put that membership news in 
separate more cheaply printed slip-ins and leave the Journals for 
horticultural interest.  Then, when I asked, they informed me that I would 
have to pay around 35.00, is that correct?, to support their work which was 
in an area I would never see.  So - I decided I could put my reading dollars 
elsewhere.

I was a "member" but you are really not a member if you are 400 miles away.  
Yes, it is on a newstand once in a while here.  If you say so - I will look 
again.  The last issue I remember had a long article about someone who was 
active in the DC/VA area and I thought it a great waste of time for the rest 
of the country.  They same or soon after issue had a bulb article written by 
a west coast expert.  He is author of some very good monographs but his AHS 
articles were California material and dated.  The material was non-factual 
and they printed it, unedited I am sure.

After all this discussion, I like (lowbrow perhaps) the BBC magazine the 
best.  A big fat and useful magazine which throws in seeds and gloves and the 
like.  I also like a British tabloid that is published weekly and truly wish 
we had one that was similar here.  Maybe Pacific Horticulture could send over 
a team and we could have an Atlantic Horticulture.  

Penelope Hobhouse is in town for a lecture tomorrow and I am going.  In The 
dead of winter one will do almost anything.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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