Pacific Bulb Society BX 373

1. Bulbs
of Cyrtanthus hybrid, orange-scarlet trumpets.
2. Seeds of Clivia "Solomone light orange
x yellow" selfed
4. Small tubers of
Nymphaea
5. Begonia martiana var gracilis
(syn. B. gracilis)
6. Seed of Nerine
bowdenii (?) Type Human.
7. Seed of Nerine
bowdenii Type Oswald.

Regards,
Aad van Beek
G.C. Marshallstraat 30
9728WS
Groningen
The Netherlands

On 28 Dec 2014, at 17:46, ds429@frontier.com

wrote:

Dear

All,

The

items listed below have been donated by our members and
friends to be shared.

If you are interested in obtaining some of

them, please email me PRIVATELY at

mailto:ds429@frontier.com

Include "BX

373" in the subject line.

Specify

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with them, a statement of how much money (usually
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Postage and packaging charges are added.

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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 plant materials to:

Dell Sherk
55 W. High

St.

Salem, WV 26426
USA

Non US donors should contact Dell for

instructions before sending seeds.

I WILL REPLY TO YOU

WITHIN 24 HRS OF MY RECEIPT OF YOUR ORDER.

IF YOU DO NOT HEAR FROM ME, TRY AGAIN

From Arnold Trachtenberg:

1. Bulbs of

Cyrtanthus hybrid, orange-scarlet trumpets.

From Dell Sherk:

2. Seeds of Clivia

"Solomone light orange x yellow" selfed

From Rimmer de

Vries:

3. Small

bulbs of Tulipa sylvestris

From Uli Urban:

4. Small tubers of Nymphaea sp. ??,

purple/blue, tuberous. I am very pleased to be able to share

these tubers this year. I got this

plant under the name of N. daubenyana

which it is definetely not. The closest I came when I
compared pictues

on the web is the

Hybrid 'Tina' . A magnificent aquatic with large
very

fragrant purple-blue flowers with

yellow center that last several days

and which are held above the water surface. In summer it
needs as warm

water as possible, mine

is growing in a free standing tank of black

plastic which is warmed up by the sun. No

artificial heating. Fertilized

with

Osmocote which does not trouble the water. It should perform
very

well in warm summer climates in

the US. It is viviparous which means

that it can form young plants on the leaves. This is
stimulated by cool

temperatures and as

we had an exceptionally long and mild autumn I could

harvest a lot of small tubers that formed

on the leaves where the stalk

attached. Some of these had sprouted and formed small leaves
and

roots. These small tubers should

be kept slighty moist in sphagnum or

peat or the like, I treated them with a fungicide to prevent
rot. In

spring they should be started

in warm water in an aquarium with extra

light and planted out into their summer

basin once the water is warm

enough. I

start mine in May at 25°C in small pots and plant them into
a

large pot in the tank in June. In

warmer climes this can be done earlier.

The adult tubers reach about nut-size. After the first frost
(I had

flowers poking through a thin

layer of ice, frozen of course) I remove

the pot from the tank, cut off all the

leaves at about 15cm from the

base,

give a GOOD spray of fungicide and dry down the pot slowly.
I

remove all remains of leaf stalks as

they die down. Before it is totally

dry it is wrapped into a plastic bag and stored at about
12°C until May.

I had some losses if

the pot gets too dry or if mildew attacks while

still very wet. I have never had leaf

tubers in autumn so this is an

experiment for me, too. I keep some of the sprouted tubers
in unheated

water in the cold

greenhouse, they look o.k. so far.

5. Begonia martiana var gracilis (syn. B.

gracilis), the "hollyhock begonia" The material

supplied is not seed but small bulbili

which are produced en masse at

the end

of the growing period. These should be "sown"
immediately on

receipt and kept just

barely moist. Begonia martiana sprouts fairly late

at the end of May. If kept totally dry

these bulbili may dessicate and

die. A

very rewarding beautiful plant. But needs some patience if
grown

from these bulbili.

6. Seed of Nerine

bowdenii (?) Type Human. originally from wild seed sent by
David

Human. This is a VERY hardy

plant with large bulbs and a large

inflorescence with fairly small very frilled pink flowers.
Different

from ordinary N. bowdenii.

Knowlegable people commented that this may

not be N. bowdenii but a different

species. It takes a while to raise a

flowering plant from seed but is very much worth the
patience. Has

survived the coldest

winter with a good mulch and overhead protection

from winter wet. Seed needs immediate

sowing as it already starts to sprout.

7. Seed of Nerine bowdenii Type

Oswald. The origin of this form cannot be traced. I

got very good bulbs from Mr Oswald from

former East Germany where it was

grown

for a long time. East Germany was fairly isolated from the
West

during communist times but had an

active gardening tradition. Many

breeding programmes emphasized hardiness with the
(political) aim to be

independent and

self sufficient. He grew these bulbs amongst the beans

and strawberries in rows in his vegetable

garden and gave it a very

thick winter

mulch made of compost and stable manure. A very good plant,

hardy in almost all winters with a

good mulch and overhead protection

against winter wet. Typical bright pink Nerine bowdenii
flowers. Needs

immediate sowing.

Thank you, Arnold, Rimmer, and Uli !!

Best wishes,

Dell

Dell Sherk, PBS

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