This is marvellous information. I am having trouble growing lilies where I live on a cold mountainside in the East Cascades.That, and the fact that everything except daffodils has to be grown in wire cages (oh, the rodents are multitudinous, and we feed them instead of knocking them off). I literally have all my lilies in chicken wire tubes up to the height of the flowers (because deer, elk, wild turkeys browse through daily and nightly, depending on the season). I do, however, grow penstemons, including Barrett's penstemons, with great success, and massive amounts of seeds. If the PBS is only lilies, I'm good with that, so have been thinking of joining the Penstemon society. On the other hand, if you accepted other kinds of seeds, I'd be able to contribute with much happiness as lilies are my joy, just tough to grow with the resident bulb eaters. Lesley On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 11:16 AM M Gastil-Buhl <gastil.buhl@gmail.com> wrote: > Happy New Year Bulb Friends, > > Compiled indexes for the last eight years of bulb exchanges, as two pdf > documents, are linked at the bottom of this page: > https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/bx.html > BX 301-400 > BX 401-463 > > Some statistics of interest: > > The ten people who donated the most bulbs and seed donated half the total > amount. Even more important to the rest of you: the 147 other donors > donated half the total amount! The PBS BX depends not only on those > relative few who participate frequently and abundantly, but also on the > many of you who send in just a few items a few times. > > In BX 301 through BX 463, a total of 3841 items were offered. Of those, > 1710 unique names were listed, mostly species binomials, but often hybrids, > varieties, or other descriptors. Originally nearly 1900 names were listed > before spellings and abbreviations were conformed. The rate of variation in > spelling is itself a useful reminder to us all, myself included, but on par > with other Index Seminum. The spelling task would not have been possible > without the PBS wiki. We now have a side-by-side comparison of what species > and genera have been offered in BX that are not on the wiki, and vice > versa. > > Some top ten lists as a retrospective of the last eight years of the past > decade: > These lists are in descending order, most-listed on top. > > The ten most often offered genera were: > Oxalis > Zephyranthes > Moraea > Calochortus > Hippeastrum > Lachenalia > Narcissus > Gladiolus > Habranthus > Allium > > The ten most offered as bulbs, using "bulb" in its most general sense: > Oxalis obtusa > Oxalis flava > Oxalis hirta > Oxalis bowiei > Ferraria crispa > Oxalis sp. > Oxalis purpurea > Lachenalia mutabilis > Moraea sp. > Amaryllis belladonna > > The ten most often listed species as seeds: > Zephyranthes primulina > Veltheimia bracteata > Rhodophiala bifida > Habranthus tubispathus > Moraea villosa > Clivia miniata > Zephyranthes drummondii > Zephyranthes reginae > Amaryllis belladonna > Calochortus venustus > > The ten donors who contributed the most items: > Mary Sue Ittner > Nhu Nguyen > Rimmer deVries > Ina Crossley > Roy Herold > Karl Church > Kipp McMichael > Mike Mace > Jane McGary > Fred Thorne > > These data provided query results too extensive to include here, but likely > to appear in a future newsletter article. I have not indexed the SX, only > the BX, so those summary statistics reflect that omission. > > Acknowledgements: > Nhu compiled the prior index examples and encouraged me to send this > message. Mary Sue reviewed earlier drafts with a practical perspective in > good humor. David ran his code on the wiki to provide a taxonomy spell > checker for my database, found errors, and tolerated my many revisions. All > the pbs wiki editors who themselves ensured correct taxonomic spelling for > me to use as a reference. Mostly of course these bulb exchanges depend on > the efforts of our BX directors, Dell and Albert, and most recently Jane > and her crew, our treasurer Arnold, and all you who donated bulbs and > seeds. > > I hope you find this useful, > Gastil > > Direct links to the pdf docs: > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/BX_offerings_301-400… > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/BX_offerings_401-463… > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…