The Daffodil, Snowdrop and Tulip Yearbook - special offer

[Maggi Young]

The Daffodil, Snowdrop and Tulip Yearbook - A special offer
£9.50  including postage and packing.

The Daffodil, Snowdrop and Tulip Yearbook
2014 is published in association with the
Royal Horticultural Society at £11. 95.

The new edition of this authoritative annual has a significant coverage of snowdrops including 15 colour pictures. Matt Bishop reviews the year’s U.K. snowdrop season. Hagen Engelmann tells of discovering several distinctly green-flushed G. nivalis in Germany as well as some unusual new ‘yellow’ hybrids. Paul van Leeuwen explains how the Dutch deal with snowdrop fungal diseases and Rosemary Newton et al discuss conservation and the sustainable use of snowdrops. John Page writes about G. peshmenii. There are also reports on three snowdrop events and a book review.


Available from Mr J Gibson, Dept NG, 14 Waverley Road, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN15 6NT.  Please send either a cheque for £9.50 made payable to the RHS or
€ 15.

   

Thanks to Matt Bishop for forwarding  news  of this offer.
Naturally there will be items of interest to Narcissus and Tulipa  enthusiasts included in  the Yearbook 

[FrazerHenderson]

I can confirm it's a great read and you won't be disappointed.

Narcissi articles :

- Review of RHS Daffodil Trial
- Comprehensive review of double Lent lily by Alan Street
- Daffodil breeders of the World: David Jackson (Tasmania)
- Reverse-bicolor daffodils in divisions 1 and 2  by Malcolm Bradbury
- Production, breeding and development of tazettas in Israel
- daffodils in china

also show (UK, Australia, NZ and USA) and book reviews. Robert Rolfe has provided a review of some AGS/SRGC shows focusing on bulbs.

Tulip articles:

- growing tulips at Kew by Kit Strange
- tulips at Chenies Manor House
- Dutch tulip scenes (botanic gardens and museums)
- review of 5th World tulip Congress in Istanbul

plus show and book reviews of latest tulip monograph