Mary Sue and Travis and Kipp and David and Nhu and everyone else who worked on this, thanks so much for all the hard work you put into it. I saw how difficult the work was, including all the sleuthing required to track down the people who had rights to those journals and getting the legal right to reproduce them. The folks who had to give permission are getting quite old now, so you acted just in time. It's very much like a bulb rescue, except that what you rescued is information, and all of us get to share it. The Calochortus Society was a really enjoyable little outfit. Back when there were no online resources, it collected information and stories that you literally could find nowhere else. And it was a labor of love for the people who ran it. It's very nice to read through the stories and letters, some of them from expert growers who are no longer with us. Hugh McDonald was (and probably still is) an advocate of conservation through cultivation. He did some amazingly meticulous experiments with seed germination and potting mix and cold stratification, all of which are now preserved in those journals. He also tried to organize a volunteer effort in which each society member would grow one species and share the seeds, to keep them all in cultivation. That didn't work out (there just wasn't enough time and it was hard to coordinate through the mail), but I think the PBS BX and SX are its spiritual descendants. Now if we could only do the same thing with Herbertia, the journal of the defunct International Bulb Society. But at least it's perserved in a few libraries, so at some point when the copyrights expire it'll end up online. Makiko wrote: >A plain yellow Calochortus bloomed at sunny hillside. So beautiful. It's probably Calochortus luteus. If you're ever trying to identify a flower you saw in the wild, the iNaturalist website is a great resource. You can look to see which flower photos have been posted in a particular spot. Mike San Jose, CA _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…