News has just reached me that Charles Hardman passed away earlier this week. As many of you know he was very active some years ago in the IBS with the cultivation of bulbs, many of them crinums, but also with irids of both South Africa and South America. In more recent years he had turned his attentions to orchids. He was generous in deed and thought. Quiet, but certainly no introvert, he would entertain the audience with stories during bulb auctions. Andrew