What a great list! I just joined. Tom ________________________________ From: Jane McGary <janemcgary@earthlink.net> To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 10:09:13 AM Subject: [pbs] NARGS Surplus seed I just downloaded the Surplus list from the current NARGS seed exchange and was startled to see how few items actually "sold out" during the initial distribution in January and February. If any of you are members of the Society, I will alert you that there are many rare bulb species on this surplus list, which can be found at: http://nargs.org/seed/… In addition, if you belong to a LOCAL NARGS chapter and not to the national society, this one year only you are allowed to order from the surplus list. I don't know how, or whether, they are checking chapter memberships, but this was announced a few days ago. It was very disappointing to see how few people had ordered bulb seeds, especially since I had missed the deadline for the AGS Fritillaria Group seed exchange and donated all my frit seeds to NARGS, including some quite rare ones that are still available. The next step with the seeds is that they are tossed into boxes and shipped at random to the local chapters for distribution; I hope somebody somewhere fishes out Fritillaria euboeica, grows it, and gets converted! Jane McGary Editor, NARGS President, PBS _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/