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From: wounddr at mail.mia.bellsouth.net on 1999.01.27 at 01:59:59(2956) Looking for the following two plants: Anthurium waroquianum Ludovia integrifolia +More thanks richard

From: "Scott Lucas" <htbg at ilhawaii.net> on 1999.01.27 at 05:27:03(2957) Unfortunately, we do not offer a wide variety of tropical plants for sale. I believe that the two species you are looking for are available from Glasshouse Works. You can find them on the web at www.glasshouseworks.com You will find the Anthurium waraquianum an expensive item to acquire. Aloha, Scott Lucas +More -----Original Message----- To: htbg@ilhawaii.net Date: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 3:44 PM Subject: purchase plant >Looking for the following two plants: >Anthurium waroquianum >Ludovia integrifolia > >thanks >richard > >

From: FAMFORFUN at aol.com on 1999.01.28 at 04:06:10(2958) Be careful with glasshouse works. The last time I bought plants from them they were half the size they stated on the phone and I paid dearly for the plants. +More Dave L.

From: Walter Greenwood <gator at rad.arad.upmc.edu> on 1999.01.28 at 17:22:04(2961) Yes Anth. waroq. is an expensive plant, but... The most expensive tie I ever purchased is a Ralph Lauren with Anthurium waroqueanum all over it. I selected it from the locked glass case in one of our high-priced department stores, and when I got home and pulled it out of the box, I found that the plant is hanging upside-down! It needs no watering, and survives Pittsburgh winters unprotected, but perhaps I would have done better to spend the money on the real thing. - Walter Greenwood +More University of Pittsburgh

From: Jmh98law at aol.com on 1999.01.29 at 16:48:18(2962) In a message dated 1/28/99 9:10:12 AM Pacific Standard Time, Walter Greenwood University of Pittsburgh wrote in response to an inquiry about a source for Anthurium +More waroqueanum: << Yes, Anth. waroq. is an expensive plant, but... The most expensive tie I ever purchased is a Ralph Lauren with Anthurium waroqueanum all over it. I selected it from the locked glass case in one of our high-priced department stores, and when I got home and pulled it out of the box, I found that the plant is hanging upside-down! It needs no watering, and survives Pittsburgh winters unprotected, but perhaps I would have done better to spend the money on the real thing.>> In response to Walter's comments: Ah, what a disappointment -- one that you would surely never have had with the real thing! Speaking of upside down plants, has anyone seen the new book: "The Orchid Thief" by Susan Orlean? The book is about the passions [and obsessions] that plague all lovers of plants. Orlean writes about various thefts of plant materials in Florida, and about John Laroche, "a renegade plant dealer who, in 1994, was arrested with 3 Seminole Indians with rare orchids they had stolen from a wild swamp in south Florida that is filled with some of the world's most extraordinary plants and trees." [Query: Is there a "tame swamp"?] It seems that Laroche had planned to make a fortune by cloning the "ghost orchid" -- Polyrrhiza lindenii -- and selling it to those collectors of orchids whose passion overwhelms the intellect -- often. One critic noted, correctly and in a huff, that the illustration on the book jacket, a Phalaenopsis, is upside down. Why wouldn't the natural illustration have been the ghost orchid? But humorous, indeed, is the lack of research and knowledge that permitted the book designed to put the single blossom upside down. Well, perhaps it's artistic license. DEWEY FISK is mentioned on pages 267 through 270, and Julius' name comes up at page 269 --- I'm sure many of you Floridians will recognize many other names of noted orchid growers and growers of other plants in South Florida. Anyway, all of us with uncontrollable passions for plants of one or more family or genus will relate to the reportage of Orlean. She, by the way, writes for the New Yorker, and found this story interesting enough to research it in Florida, and through the Miami Herald, and other sources [like court records]. Thought some of you might find it interesting. Jeanne Hannah 17623 Whispering Trail Traverse City MI 49686-8714 (616) 223-7864 USDA Zone 5b -

From: "Beth Cosgriff" <bcosgriff at lehmann.mobot.org> on 1999.01.29 at 19:16:12(2963) Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 10:45:23 -0600 Reply-to: aroid-l@mobot.org To: bcosgriff@lehmann.mobot.org +More Subject: Re: purchase plant ----clip------ Anyway, all of us with uncontrollable passions for plants of one or more family or genus will relate to the reportage of Orlean. She, by the way, writes for the New Yorker, and found this story interesting enough to research it in Florida, and through the Miami Herald, and other sources [like court records]. Thought some of you might find it interesting. Jeanne Hannah 17623 Whispering Trail Traverse City MI 49686-8714 (616) 223-7864 USDA Zone 5b I haven't read the book yet, but it got a very good review this weekend in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. I plan on reading it soon. Have you read it yet Jeanne? Beth Cosgriff

From: Betsytrips at aol.com on 1999.01.29 at 22:06:51(2964) This plant bug can be devastating and compulsive. Those of us who have collected in foreign lands certainly have gotten bit with the bug. I have always wondered how some have the ability to collect some specific genus and been able to leave the rest alone. Then comes the question...what is a thief. Do any of us own a plant, a life, or is it only loaned to us like a child for some period of time....often time between life and death unfortunately. I guess we get into the legalities of the issue and the rarety or perceived rarety of the plant. Well, to make a long story short, I am as guillty of the habit as are many others. Perhaps the habit is only a symbol of where we are on our spiritual path. Now I have opened pandora's box. Have at it if you wish or leave it alone if it is too close to home. As to the book, sounds interesting....might be fun to read. Has anyone read it so they might give a critique of it from a collector's point of view? Betsy

From: "Scott Lucas" <htbg at ilhawaii.net> on 1999.01.30 at 03:07:50(2966) Took the opportunity to view reviews of "The Orchid Thief" on Amazon.com. Interesting reviews on what is probably a most interesting book. I am most intrigued about what she has to say about DEWEY FISK and perhaps some of the other people in Florida that I know. Scott Lucas +More -----Original Message----- To: htbg@ilhawaii.net Date: Friday, January 29, 1999 11:49 AM Subject: Re: purchase plant >This plant bug can be devastating and compulsive. Those of us who have >collected in foreign lands certainly have gotten bit with the bug. I have >always wondered how some have the ability to collect some specific genus and >been able to leave the rest alone. Then comes the question...what is a thief. >Do any of us own a plant, a life, or is it only loaned to us like a child for >some period of time....often time between life and death unfortunately. I >guess we get into the legalities of the issue and the rarety or perceived >rarety of the plant. Well, to make a long story short, I am as guillty of the >habit as are many others. Perhaps the habit is only a symbol of where we are >on our spiritual path. Now I have opened pandora's box. Have at it if you wish >or leave it alone if it is too close to home. > >As to the book, sounds interesting....might be fun to read. Has anyone read it >so they might give a critique of it from a collector's point of view? > >Betsy > > >

From: plantnut at macconnect.com (Dewey Fisk) on 1999.01.30 at 03:50:00(2969) Yes Scott, I would like to know what she said about me also.... Dewey +More >Took the opportunity to view reviews of "The Orchid Thief" on Amazon.com. >Interesting reviews on what is probably a most interesting book. I am most >intrigued about what she has to say about DEWEY FISK and perhaps some of the >other people in Florida that I know. > >Scott Lucas Dewey E. Fisk, Plant Nut THE PHILODENDRON PHREAQUE Your Source for Tropical Araceae

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