Re: Marge's article in The American Gardener.
- Subject: Re: Marge's article in The American Gardener.
- From: M* T*
- Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 01:08:55 -0500
Well, Claire, to each his/her own:-) But give it a glance next time
you run across a copy; think you will be surprised at how far it's
come in the last few years. The editorial staff is small, but they
work hard to improve the mag. all the time...and, yes they do copy
edit:-)
Carol Otteson is now on the ed. staff and writes at least one and
often more articles per issue, I see.
I dunno about having to live close to the organization's headquarters
to be a real member. I've totally enjoyed my membership in RHS and
live a loooong way from London...think, really, membership is a state
of mind and related to what you perceive you get out of the
organization...
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: ECPep@aol.com
> 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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