Re: Neil Carroll's last IAS Newsletter

From: "Dany Hervelle" bs246466 at skynet.be> on 2001.05.17 at 04:46:37(6482) Hello to all I am very in accord with you wilbert.!!'simply' plants lover' are most of the time not take in correct serious and that's why i really thanks some plant man like Joseph Bogner,Alistair Hay or Tom Croat from who i always had receiving a reply of ,or a letter,or an email!Someone who have a large collection of a genera,for instance,have a very great knowledge of this genera with the years.Sure that help from a scientific is ofen necessary,but sure also that a simply collector may also give help to scientific.The 2 are i think complementary. +More I remember long years agoo when i first was interesting about aroid,specialy the genus alocasia.I have writing hundreds of letters to have rarely only a reply.Now that i have an extensive collection of that genus(near than 100 species and cvs),sometime only i feel to be taking in serious!Sure that have a large collection is not an absolue referance,but sure also that be a collector today is so far differant that be a collector only 50 years agoo!Now you love your plants,but you also try to know them,try to make them know by others,try to make the best way to grow them,try to know from where they come,to know how they are use in the origin country,etc...,so is it not in some way a kind of study,research, in our level?Now,i have regular exchange with few botanical garden(with most of bt,it is always no reply),and never my knowledge of 'my' genera was negative,offen the inverse.All that to say that if most of us are not 'Dr',we offen know correctly our plants!So collector and Dr,same fight in some..! One thing also,about the rain forest...,yes i want to go to the rainforest to see,get and pick plant!But if i 'll take plants there,sure that it will be not me who will made the rainforest in danger.Just a question:how manys aroiders are on the list?If you think that all of them will go one time in the rainforest to pic plants there,sure that it will not be a lot of people!I really don't think that the people who collect plants may cause really dommage in the forest, if this is not made in a commercial way (a lot).Most of the plants that are lost are with the destruction of the natural habitat.And if one day this habitat may be restaured,sure that the plants that i had take there will be again avalable,and in plus multiplicate,because the 'plant lover' Love the plants,and made all the best care,more that mother nature may do...And i love mother nature! Good growin' to all P.S.Excuse me all please for my bad english! dany Hervelle

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