Like many of the former soviet republics, Georgia is wrestling with how to transition all of the Institutes and Universities that used to be state sponsored into a position where they can support themselves. The Tbilisi Botanical Garden has 'transitioned' from an independent entity to a unit of the Institute of Botany (Herbarium) and from there to a department within a university and finally to the Tbilisi Parks Department. The staff have been very amenable to contract collecting taxa for a consortium of North American Botanical Gardens are Arboreta at very reasonable prices per taxa. Contact me privately if you would like contact information. Boyce Tankersley Director of Living Plant Documentation Chicago Botanic Garden 1000 Lake Cook Road Glencoe, IL 60022 USDA zone 5 cold continental climate on the west side (drier, less snow cover) of Lake Michigan with heavy clay soils > " Message du 17/02/12 07:12 > > De : "Rodger Whitlock" > > A : "Pacific Bulb Society" > > > PS#5: I got the Index Seminum from the Tbilisi Botanic Garden, and what > a sad, > > sorry affair it was. Not one of the beautiful native plants that are so > rare in > > cultivation was listed. I gather that like many other such institutions > > throughout the former USSR, it is seriously underfunded and has fallen > on hard > > times. > > > > > > -- > > Rodger Whitlock" > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >