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From: Jack Honeycutt jhoneycutt at uswest.net> on 2000.09.09 at 04:37:37(5390) At 05:29 PM 9/7/2000 -0500, you wrote: >this reply is from florida's better ceast. if you've read 'the orchid >thief,' you might want to explore the fakahatchee strand state park near >naples [and if you haven't read the orchid thief, shame on you] as well as >the corkscrew swamp sanctuary. To a kid from Oregon, seeing native bromeliads growing on a tree branch, standing in waist deep mud, while your blood is sucked dry by misquotes wearing a garland of ghost orchids is not to be missed. Did i mention the sweltering heat? Who is with me??!! I need a guide. Volunteers welcome. Just finished reading 'The Orchid Thief'. I see Aroid list member Dewey Fisk is in the book. I have never met anyone famous before. I am *so* looking forward to this trip to the land of plant nuts (so I can feel at home among my own kind!) jack in cold Portland Oregon

From: Dean Sliger deanslgr at juno.com> on 2000.09.10 at 04:09:23(5393) On Fri, 8 Sep 2000 23:37:37 -0500 (CDT) Jack Honeycutt writes: > Just finished reading 'The Orchid Thief'. I see Aroid list member +More > Dewey > Fisk is in the book. I have never met anyone famous before. I am > *so* > looking forward to this trip to the land of plant nuts (so I can > feel at home among my own kind!) Jack, a handy thought to keep tucked in the back of your mind is that the woman who wrote that book is a Manhattan journalist and total non-gardening person -- someone who might have a dust covered pot of Sanseveria or pothos in a corner of the living room, calling it "jungle-y." To people like that, everything is "weird" and "exotic." Her main intent with the book was to create another "Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil." Viewed through her lense, ANY local club or society would seem pretty wild. You'll appreciate a visit with Dewey much more than she did! ;-) Dean

From: Piabinha at aol.com on 2000.09.10 at 04:11:12(5394) In a message dated 9/9/2000 12:37:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jhoneycutt@uswest.net writes: > To a kid from Oregon, seeing native bromeliads growing on a tree branch, +More > standing in waist deep mud, while your blood is sucked dry by misquotes > wearing a garland of ghost orchids is not to be missed. Did i mention the > sweltering heat? Who is with me??!! I need a guide. Volunteers welcome. what kind of creature is a "misquote?" something that journalists spawn often? > Just finished reading 'The Orchid Thief'. I see Aroid list member Dewey > Fisk is in the book. I have never met anyone famous before. I am *so* > looking forward to this trip to the land of plant nuts (so I can feel at > home among my own kind!) i'm sure you'll meet many more celebrities over there, from this list... but if you want to meet famous people, you could hang out in nyc for a while... i have seen many "celebrities" walking down the street without anyone bothering them, and i never approached one: JFK jr. (3 times before his untimely death), gregory hines, jimmy smits, paul simon, laurie anderson, lou reed, mikhail baryshnikov, woody allen & soon-yi previn, david byrne, ashford & simpson etc. etc. of course, if you want to get me really excited, you should show me a Montrichardia, Pseudohydrosme gabunensis or a Callopsis volkensii... those are true celebrities in my book! tsuh yang chen, nyc, USA

From: plantnut at macconnect.com (plantnut) on 2000.09.10 at 16:59:45(5398) >You'll appreciate a visit with Dewey much more than she did! ;-) > >Dean +More I should hope so.... She was here for no more than twenty minutes... And I might say that she took some license with the complete truth. And, I knew John for five or six years... I was never that impressed... sure, a bit of a kook but... aren't we all... And want to know something else... she did not even give me a copy of the book. I sort of think that was a little cheap. I still don't have it.... Personally, I like tsuh yang chen's variety of celebrities much better.... They don't put on 'airs'. Dewey Your source for Tropical Araceae. You are invited to visit:

From: Jack Honeycutt jhoneycutt at uswest.net> on 2000.09.10 at 17:00:44(5399) At 11:09 PM 9/9/2000 -0500, you wrote: >You'll appreciate a visit with Dewey much more than she did! ;-) I am sure I will. jack

From: Jack Honeycutt jhoneycutt at uswest.net> on 2000.09.10 at 17:01:11(5401) At 11:11 PM 9/9/2000 -0500, you wrote: >what kind of creature is a "misquote?" something that journalists spawn >often? Yea! Sort of like a mosquito for journalists +More >i'm sure you'll meet many more celebrities over there, from this list... Ah good! > but >if you want to meet famous people, Uh, I would rather work in my garden thank you. >Montrichardia, Pseudohydrosme gabunensis or a Callopsis volkensii... those >are true celebrities in my book! I can see we will get along just fine! jack in cold and rainy Oregon

From: Betsytrips at aol.com on 2000.09.10 at 17:01:40(5403) In a message dated 9/9/00 11:09:46 PM Central Daylight Time, deanslgr@juno.com writes: << You'll appreciate a visit with Dewey much more than she did! ;-) >> +More I totally agree. Dewey and his love of the plants is far more wild and neat than the literary discussion of a fantasy. Betsy

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