Dear All, The items listed below have been donated by our members to be shared. If you are interested in obtaining some of them, please email me PRIVATELY at <dells@voicenet.com>. Include "BX 177" in the subject line. Specify the NUMBERS of the items which you would like; do not specify quantities. It is a good idea to include your snail mail address, too, in case I don't already have it. Availability is based on a first come, first served system. When you receive your seeds/bulbs you will find, included with them, a statement of how much money (usually $2.00/item) (cash, check, or Pay Pal to <Arnold@NJ.rr.com>; no money orders, please) you should send the PBS treasurer to defray our costs for packing and first-class, priority-mail, or international postage. PLEASE NOTE: NEW POSTAL-RATE SCHEMES NECESSITATE OUR PLACING A SURCHARGE ON EACH ORDER FROM PBS BX OFFERINGS. Some of you are members of the online PBS discussion forum but are not members of the Pacific Bulb Society. THIS BX OFFERING IS AVAILABLE ONLY TO MEMBERS OF THE PBS. Consider joining the PBS so that you can take advantage of offers such as this. Go to our website: <http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/> .... If you would like to donate seeds or bulbs/corms to the PBS,(Donors will receive credit on the BX for the cost of postage for their donations.), please send CLEAN, clearly labeled material to: Dell Sherk 6832 Phillips Mill Rd. New Hope, PA, 18938 USA I WILL REPLY TO YOU WITHIN 24 HRS OF MY RECEIPT OF YOUR ORDER. IF YOU DO NOT HEAR FROM ME, TRY AGAIN !! From Roy Herold: SEEDS: 1. Pelargonium appendiculatum Summer dormant geophyte, forms a large, attractive, exfoliating caudex with feathery gray green leaves. Nice flowers, too. Follow Leo Martin's sowing directions from BX173. 2. Cyclamen graecum Silver Center 3. Cyclamen creticum Late bloomer, small white flowers. 4. Cyclamen africanum Silver Center Excellent grower, lots of flowers, very fertile. Originally from Ellen Hornig in 2000, who since gave up on the less hardy cyclamen. 5. Cyclamen coum 'Maurice Dryden' Should be plain green leaves with white flowers, but expect some variation. Originated by Kath Dryden. 6. Cyclamen coum 'Nymans' Very early blooming, clear pink flowers, silvery leaves with a hint of a green edge/midrib. Another from Kath Dryden. Only a few. 7. Cyclamen coum Urfa Ex wild collected seed from Turkey. 8. Cyclamen coum 9-285-1 From CSE (Cyclamen Society Expedition) plants. This has been one of the best coums I grow, extremely floriferous and fertile, attractive leaves. 9. Cyclamen coum 'Dusky Maid' A strain/cultivar originated in England by Basil Smith in the early 90s. Silvery leaves, pink flowers. 10. Cyclamen coum Mixed Everything else. A mix of seed from selected plants and named cultivars, including CSE offspring, christmas tree type, Sterling Silver, Tilebarn Elizabeth, kuznetzovii, silver leaf, propeller form, white flowers, pink flowers, red flowers, bicolor flowers, you name it. 11. Cyclamen libanoticum Huge appleblossom pink/white flowers. Only a few. 12. Cyclamen mirabile Sometimes ruddy. 13. Cyclamen cilicium Hardy here. 14. Cyclamen cyprium ex Kantara, Cyprus The best marked leaves on any cypriums I have seen, 'ES' form included. Plants grown from wild collected seed. 15. Cyclamen cyprium Unpedigreed, but well marked. 16. Cyclamen x hildebrandii (perhaps) Received as C. africanum, but this one has some degree of frost tolerance so I'm guessing it has some hederifolium blood. Flowers profusely for over three months here (Sept-Dec), but shy to set seed. This one gets huge: I just repotted the original plant, and the tuber (without soil) weighed over six pounds. Only a few. 17. Albuca cf. spiralis Rough, hairy leaves, spiraling at tips only (for me, more sun may give more curls). Scape ~35cm, yellow flowers. Ex Steve Hammer. From Jim Waddick: 18. Bulbs of Fritillaria persica "typical", medium size bulbs. These originated from Dutch stock. These bulbs are not likely to bloom the first year, but should in a year or two at most. A very vigorous clone. SEED: 19. Hippeastrum papilio x ??? These may be selfed or open pollinated from some other large flowered hybrid in bloom at the same time. Only 1 stalk produced two large pods with only a percent that look 'good'. No guarantee, but might be interesting. 20. Fritillaria persica 'Ivory Bells'. This is from Dutch stock, but presumably the same clone as introduced by Janis Ruksans a few years ago. Flowers are pale green to cream, maybe ivory from a distance with your eyes squinting, but quite distinct from the typical form. Flowers, stalk and number seem as vigorous as typical F. persica. Can't guarantee open pollination with type, but not likely. 21. Fritillaria pallidifora. This has proven itself in my garden. A medium size Frit with pale-near white flowers. Easy in light shade. From Dutch stock. 22. Tulipa clusiana 'Lady Jane'. A fine old cv. with pink and white candy striped flowers of good size. It was terrific this year, but have no idea how they do from seed. From Dutch stock. From Jim Shields: BULBS: 23. Haemanthus lanceifolius: seedling bulbs ca. 1/2 inch in diameter, but 4 yrs. old. They are dormant so have no leaves and few or no roots. 24. Haemanthus pauculifolius have one leaf and some roots. The bulbs are mostly from one clone. Thank you, Roy, Jim, and Jim !! Best wishes, Dell Dell Sherk, Director, PBS BX