Re: Wayside
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] Wayside
- From: C* P*
- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 12:32:58 EST
In a message dated 1/14/00 10:26:41 AM Eastern Standard Time,
coneh@USWEST.NET writes:
<< Dear Listers,
just couldnt resist any longer to reflect on my experience with Wayside (and
many others of less note so will stick to Wayside).. First contact with
WS.came
20+yrs.ago..
As a new home owner(and a newcomer to Northern gardening) with almost an
acre
to landscape,short on experience ,Wayside's catalog helped me every step of
the
way.Most often I used it as a tool of reference,learning(what plant needs
what,etc.) >>
I would write a similar kindly letter regarding Wayside. When I first
ventured beyond the garden center plants Wayside was in Mentor, Ohio. You
needed to order plants or send cash for the large and beautiful catalog. In
those days libraries carried Wayside's catalog in the periodical section.
Past year copies could be borrowed. I could not afford most of their
offerings, just now and then a treat.
At the same time "Horticulture" was the publication of the Massachusetts
Horticultural Society. That was also a library treat. Later it became a
national magazine widening it's readership to a national audience. Once of
the first articles printed as an independent was entitled "The Sex Life of a
Spinach". It has been up and down since.
Net e-mail lists, when good, are better than most magazines that can be
purchased by amateur gardeners.
Claire Peplowski
East Nassau, NY z4
