Asklepios 96

[Rob]

Hi All

Any IAS members recieved issue 96 yet? I dont seem to have done. 95 has a cover date of April2006, so I should think maybe I should have.

I really must devise a system of some sort to keep track of what Journals are due when and whether they have come!
Alison says I cant keep track because I take TOO MANY! but there ARE some I dont subscribe to, so she cant be right.

[Apicra]

Hello Rob & other Stapeliaddicts,

The last Asclepios I received was also no.95.

Surely one can't get too many c&s journals? It's good to have some serious stuff to compliment this Forum froth!

Best wishes,
Derek Tribble

[Julie]

Nice!

[Cactus Jack]

Not all of us are botanists !! froth i dont think so...

[Apicra]

Please don't misuderstand - a specialist journal and a web email forum both have different strengths and weaknesses. I am not a botanist either and like/need them both! If anyone thinks this Forum is a modern (& free?) replacement for specialist horticultural journals, they are missing a lot.

Best wishes,
Derek Tribble

[Roy]

Take heart Stephen, a guy was stating on cacti ect the other day "Also, realize there are now very few professional scientists studying
cactus taxonomy. There are probably 1000 times as many people working in
the advertising agency selling Coca-Cola worldwide as there are
professional botanists studying cacti worldwide."
Can you imagine the ramifications of that? If, in the early part of the last century, the cacti guys had been in the majority and of the same frame of mind as the Coca Cola guys, Father Chrismas could have been dressed in green and covered in spikes instead of the Coca Cola promotional colours of red and white (true). I don't think many kids would have wanted a hug!
The mind boggles!!!!!

[Rob]

Thanks Derek.
I agree you cant have enough C&S journals, and I know I dont take as many as you. Alison is still in training!!

[Trevor]

Sorry to drag up this old thread again, but has Asklepios 96 raised it's head at all ??

Haven't recieved it down here yet, and I think they'll be pushing it to have 96 and 97 out by the end of the year...LOL

(I know it's not a BCSS thing, but remembered this thread and thought I'd check whether it was just me missing out before making "official" enquiries !)

Thanks,

[Victoria]

Nope, I'm in the UK and haven't recieved it yet. Seriously considering not re-subscribing now, as sadly have to be choosy with journals due to financial constraints.

[Victoria]

Just recieved this email via Yahoo Stapeliad group and thought I would share for the benefit of non-members.

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Asklepios 96 is now with the printers and will be printed before
Christmas for mailing to paid up members of the International Asclepiad
Society early in the New Year after the Christmas rush.

This issue contains an interesting mix of articles:

Calotropis procera in Botswana by Bruce Hargreaves
Some observations (on cultivation) by Hans Kaptein
A newly discovered species of Rhytidocaulon from Northern Somalia by
Tom McCoy
I like growing hoyas by Eva-Karin Wiberg
Showing Asclepiads by Chris Moore
Some notes on the ant plant Hoya imbricata in cultivation by Andrea
Cattabriga
Book review (of the stapeliad book by P.V.Bruyns) by Paul Forster

For further information about the IAS check our web site at www.
asclepiad-international.org

Best wishes
Alan Butler
IAS Chairman and Editor