>From: jflintoff@aol.com
>Reply-To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
>To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: [pbs] Crocus 'Golden Bunch'
>Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 19:31:13 -0500
>
>Alberto
>
> I disagree with you that Patrick Synge was one of the greatest bulb
>experts of his time. He was a very skilled writer and long-time editor of
>the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society. He was very good at
>adapting the writings and ideas of other more expert bulb growers, such as
>his friends E B Anderson and Paul Furse, neither of whom wrote as
>prolifically.
>
>Jerry John Flintoff
>Vashon Island,Washington,USA
>zone 8
Dear Jerry:
I did not say "bulb expert". You are right, but producing
such a monumental work as "Colins Guide to Bulbs" with an excellence that
provides first hand valuable information even today could have not been
possible to someone that merely conveyed into text others' knowledge.
Remember that as the Editor of "The Garden" he had access to every single
garden and greenhouse in England as well as all Flower Shows. Another friend
of his Vic Horton. He was able to follow the evolution of many bulbs
imported from Afghanistan and Iran In Shah's time, where there had not been
collections since. We are showered every year with gorgeous bulb books with
the most extraordinary images but great bulb books remain a handful. Patrick
Synge was an expert in Liliums,a genus he mentions as "the queen of all
bulbs".
All the best
Alberto
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