From ginsb001@maroon.tc.umn.edu Mon Sep 26 22:37:46 EDT 1994
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From: ginsb001@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Ron Ginsberg)
Subject: Pond - Water Gardening Book
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I'm looking for a sales source of John Daws' (sp?) Book of Water Gardening. I 
believe it was last published in 1989. Local bookstore here (Barnes & Noble) 
lists it but does not know if it is still available.

This book was recommended to me by a gardener at a local conservatory that 
maintains several ponds.

e-mail: ron.ginsberg@tstation.mn.org
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From resta@iei.pi.cnr.it Mon Sep 26 22:44:43 EDT 1994
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From: resta@iei.pi.cnr.it (Giovanni Resta)
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Subject: Is the RHS Dictionary any good ?
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I've just seen the ad of the
"The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionaty - Index
 of Garden Plants" (1994)
according to the ad it has 1234pp. and provide revised names for over
60,000 ornamental and economic plants, and "each plant named
carries a brief description and a hardiness rating" (no photos).

Does someone know this book? Is it any good ?
How much detailed are the descriptions ?
(Well 60,000 / 1234 > 48, so they must be very concise !)
Thanks,
Giovanni.


From niemirab@student.msu.edu Mon Sep 26 23:18:29 EDT 1994
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From: niemirab@student.msu.edu  (Brendan A. Niemira)
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Subject: Re: interplanting beans and corn-HELP!
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In Article <aquilla.1130397109B@sadye.emba.uvm.edu> "aquilla@salus.med.uvm.edu (Tracy Aquilla)" says:
>     Has anyone else out there tried interplanting beans and corn before? If
> so, I'd like to hear about it, since this didn't work out too well for me.
> This year, I decided to plant pole beans in with my sweet corn crop. I
[snip]
> (eg. every-other corn plant) or pruned the bean runners more. Any advice
> from someone who has had better success with this system would be sincerely
> appreciated. Picking pole beans from these sprawling vines is not much fun,
> to say nothing of the poor sweet corn yield I got. Thanks for any help.
> 
> Tracy Aquilla, Ph.D.
If you were to wait for the corn to sprout and grow a bit, you could come in
and plant your beans next to the stalks with minimal disturbance to the corn
roots (just a finger hole in the dirt^h^h^h^h soil :).  The growing bean roots
would work out an amiable relationship with the corn roots, and your more fully
developed corn stalk would be better able to support the weight of the beans 
& vines.  I think that a problem you might have is that sweet corn is harvested
earlier than the field corn traditionally used in this intercropping scheme
(Edwards, Lal, Madden, Miller and House 1990 Sustainable_Agriculture_Systems).
Good luck.
...........

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Brendan A. Niemira           |   "You know your Shelley, Bertie."             
Dept. Botany and Plant Path  |   "Oh, am I?"
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        All opinions expressed are entirely my own.


