Archibald Archive: new items

[Maggi Young]

Just added: the "Treasures of Turkey" articles from the American Magazine "Horticulture" in 2005.

"Horticulture" - which has an online presence at www.hortmag.com - agreed to the SRGC use of the articles in the form printed originally. The publishers were kind enough to compliment the SRGC on this project; their representative saying it was a "lovely endeavor to honor your friend".

[David Stephens]

Thanks David and Maggi for your invaluable researche - I have kept many seedlists but there are some gaps - so now I can revisit those missing years .

Hello Otto
Seems a long time since I visited you in the Dandenongs.
More of Jim is yet to come. Keep reading.
David

[Maggi Young]

Field Notes from the first trip to Corsica, 28th March to 11April 1962,  added


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[David Nicholson]

I'm gradually ploughing my way through Jim's old seed lists (many thanks to David Stephen's for his hard editorial graft) and if you haven't had a read of some of them yet you should, they really are a treat and particularly some of Jim's pithy Introductions. A good case here in the Summer 1991 edition where Jim, under the heading 'Post Mortem', waxes elequently about the organisation and cost of the 1991 6th International Rock Garden Conference.

The words 'leopard' 'changes' and 'spots' did spring to my mind!

[Maggi Young]

Today, As well as the Master Seedlist update, with added photos,  there is also an addition to the "twin" articles
 of Jim's piece 'Inshriach in late summer and autumn', the first draft of the article that was to appear in the SRGC journal as 'Autumn Concerto' in the form of a letter from Jack Drake, owner of Inshriach, responding to the draft piece and raising some small points.


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[Tim Ingram]

The letter from Jack Drake to Jim shows an affectionate master/pupil relationship, and how much Jim must have learnt from working at Inshriach. It highlights even more the great role that specialist alpine nurseries have played in the past and the way that knowledge can be passed on from individual to individual. Jim wrote about Jack Drake as one of his heros in March 1998 (Drake's sunset), and someone who knows and grows plants very well seems like a good hero to have.

[Maggi Young]

More photos have arrived today -  they have now been loaded to the Master seedlist.

Photos on the list are from Jim and Jenny's own website pictures; sourced from various threads in the forum,  and  many that have been specially contributed.
Among those who have sent or posted  photos for the Archibald Archive are : (in no particular order than from my memory (!))
Michael J. Cambell,  Doreen Mear,  Gerry Webster,   Lesley Cox,  Tim Ingram,  Hans Joschko,  Rimmer de Vries,  Luc Scheldeman,  Brian Ellis, Viv Condon,  David Nicholson,  Tony Willis,  Rafa Diez Dominguez,  Darren Sleep,  Gerhard Raschun,  Simon Silcock,   John Weagle,  David Pilling, Luc Gilgemyn,  Aaron Floden,  John Forrest,  Rob Convery, Janis Ruksans, Roma Fiddes,  Hans Achilles,  Zdenek Rehacek,  Igor Herminarik,  Hendrik van Bogaert,  Peter Taggart,  Tom Cameron,  Ashley Allshire,  Lola Horowitz,  Gail Harland,  David Hoare,  Alex Jeans,   Melvyn Jope,  Mark Griffiths ..........  cannot be sure I've got everyone here, but many thanks to you all. Keep sending your photos, please  
or, post them here : https://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=9360.0
Thank you!

 

[Maggi Young]

Added today :
Field Notes: Trip 2 Morocco 4th July - 20th August 1962 JCA74 – 301


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The  University of British Columbia Botanical Garden  and Centre for Plant Research was established in 1916 and is the oldest continuously operating University based botanical garden in Canada.
The SRGC is  most grateful  to Staff  from UBC, particularly Daniel Mosquin and Eric La Fountaine, for their assistance in providing information on the Archibald Accessions to the  UBC collection for the Archibald Archive.

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[Luc Gilgemyn]

Just stumbled accross this thread !
What an awesome treat !!
Thanks very much for all the effort put into this !
It will provide some great reading during the Autumn and Winter evenings ahead of us ! 

[Maggi Young]

Field Notes for Trip 3 Macedonia 22nd July - 25th August 1964  JCA302 - 770  added.


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[Maggi Young]

An update has been made to the Master Seedlist- including some additonal information about various Fritillaria collections from Laurence Hill and links to information in the Fritillaria Icones website:www.fritillariaicones.com

[Maggi Young]

Field Notes for  Trip  No. 6  Spain 29th May - 12th June 1970  JCA3400 - 3575    added to archive

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[Maggi Young]

Updated list of Expeditions,Trips and numbers added.

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[Maggi Young]

Fieldnotes for Trip 8  Colombia 7th January  - 28th January 1978 JCA4000 – 4099  added

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[Lars S]

What an extremely fascinating thread this is !

As a more or less novice in the field of bulbs I feel like I´m set out on a tour of great Discovery