Joe, If you can keep the size of the site down to 50 MB or so, I mightbe able to provide space for such a project. I am following in similar footstps as her, so I fully appreciate her efforts. My site is being updated. Kevin D. Preuss http://www.amaryllis-plus.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: <ConroeJoe@aol.com> To: <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 6:38 PM Subject: [pbs] Re: pbs Digest, Vol 19, Issue 30 > In a message dated 8/23/2004 11:10:43 AM Central Daylight Time, > dells@voicenet.com > writes: > > > I, for one, would hope that we can accommodate Marcelle's photo collection. > > She is very well known to Crinum enthusiasts! I believe that she still has a > > retail sales website? > > Hi Dell (and all who wrote privately), > > Marcelle does maintain her own commercial Web site where she provides a > picture gallery of plants for sale, and many more plants not for sale. > > LINK: Marcelle's Crinums > http://www.marcellescrinums.com/ > > Thanks for your various notes. I will collect all the ideas that I have > received and discuss them with Marcelle. For now, I think there is little chance > that Marcelle's historical photos and records can be accommodated on the Wiki. > > > The amount of material she has is truly enormous and includes photos of many > unpublished hybrids (perhaps over 100) from other breeders, as well as her own > materials, along with notes on fertility, when created, who created, etc. > Some information is unique. For instance, without going into particulars, > Marcelle has developed never-before-reported colors in Crinum. > > One PBS member suggested that ibiblio.org or another organization might be > willing to host an encyclopedia-style Web site, wherein the information could be > deposited and freely accessed. This seems like an approach that might work > if Marcelle and I can get the photos digitized and the text written. > > > Cordially, > > Conroe Joe (still hot and muggy, rain showers off and on) > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php