Re: Chemical Baths in Gardens

In a message dated 3/14/02 12:53:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, Blee811@aol.com 
writes:

<< At the World Daffodil Convention in Portland, OR in 2000, several of the 
 tours were of professional hybridizers' gardens. Most of them also had these 
 footbaths with solutions of fungicide and nematocides.  They're very careful 
 about disease transmission.  And when 400 people are tramping all over your 
 specimen beds it seems a wise precaution. Two of them even had plastic, 
 disposable boots to pull over your shoes!
 Bill Lee >>


I really did not mind but a lot of other people did.  I can see the purpose 
of this practice and with Bill's report, I expect to see more of it.  In our 
case you could not continue if you did not cooperate and there was plenty of 
argument.  There is always the tourist who demands to see the boss and 
unfortunately in my case it was always an American.  BTW, I was advised a few 
times that we hijacked the term American, they are Americans, South 
Americans. We are North Americans.

Here's to accepting chemical baths in gardens if asked.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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