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  Re: Neil Carroll's last IAS Newsletter
From: "D.J. Leedy" djleedy at netex.quik.com> on 2001.05.17 at 04:42:08(6480)
Although Aroidl is wonderful, I think there is still need for a newsletter.
Not everyone is comfortable with a computer or wants to spend a lot of time
looking at the CRT. There are some basics that could be covered in a
newsletter much better than in Aroidl. However, once covered in the
newsletter, these could become the subjects of comments and contrary ideas
expressed on Aroidl. While some of these may be appropriate for Aroideana,
usual horticultural pieces in this journal are based upon someone's
experience trying to do something and not instructive "how tos," as might be
found in the newsletter. The newsletter is often the only contact with
fellow aroid enthusiasts and, if not on Aroidl or within driving distance of
the monthly meeting in Miami, a place to get ideas and compare notes.

I edited the newsletter for a while in the late 1970's or early 1980's. I
tried to include one or more major topics, any correspondence, anything
noteworthy happening in the Aroid World (i.e. the anthurium hybridization
programs in Hawaii or the A. titanium meristem experiments at the Palmgarten
in Frankfurt), if these were not to be covered in Aroideana, a list of
publications and how to get them, and a schedule of major horticultural and
botany events around the world. . I actually plagiarized many articles from
other publications as well as from the newsletter of the Australian Aroid
Society written by David Burnett and, after 20 some odd years of
newsletters, it would probably be OK to go back and rewrite articles that
have appeared before.

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