A new CANADIAN lily book

This is courtesy Lilypon. At the RU she gave me the following book.
Lilies by Pamela McGeorge. Firefly books, ISBN 1-55297-883-4

Good general knowledge re lilium. Great article by Lynnette Westfall of Valley K (http://www.plantlilies.com) about planting lilies in cold zones. Good listing of Cdn. hybridizers with some histories. All in all, great to have a canadian book for us lily nuts.

Thank you tons Pam.

Inanda
Northern Horizons - NALS convention July 13-17th in Winnipeg
http://www.lilies.org and http://www.manitobalilies.ca


This message was edited May 23, 2005 6:30 AM

I agree.. it is one of the best books on lilies available in my opinion. I have read it (many times) and I highly recommend it.

It is rated here (bookworm)
http://davesgarden.com/gbw/c/1748/

I'm really happy you're enjoying it and that Kdjoergensen also highly recommended it Ginny. Ü

Welcome kdjoergensen! Ü

Yet ANOTHER CANADIAN LILY BOOK. Two in one year - what bonus.

Lilypon, better get your purchasisng Dept. to get this ...

Prairie Phoenix Lily Philadelphicum The Red Lily in Saskatchewan

Bonnie J. Lawrence and Anna Leighton, Nature Saskatchewan. ISBN 0-921104-21-9

http://www.naturesask.ca

I'll have the PO made up tomorrow morning.....thanks Ginny! Ü

Hope you can order one for each of your branches too.

Gereat phtography and BEAUTIFUL frontispiece from Jim S in Regina - a great artist

I checked and it isn't listed in CBIP so we will be waiting a little while yet. All branches won't get a copy but some will.

It is a private printing so .... will it get into CBIP??? And if so, it will be out of print by then prob. Maybe you'l have to ask your local lily soc. to donate a copy.

We expect to see it in there Ginny (even being a private printing) our CBIP is on the puter and is updated monthly.....as it turns out tho a copy of a press release was discovered on bosses desk and with it was the needed ordering information. :)

Does this maybe tell you a bit about how long since I've been in Tech services Pam??? lol Monthly updates on computer ..... of course.
Inanda

LOL........I kinda figured you were thinking of the now antiquated text edition. ;)

Antiquated??? Thought you were a friend.

My comment was a statement on the times we are now entering.,,,,,,,,I worked with it for many years too!

edited to say it's getting really scary in libraries now. We've been told some libraries are just puter terminals and all reading sources are on the net. Most treasured reference books are outdated now and pay-for-use sites are quickly replacing them. It is changing so fast that I worry about what's going to happen, in the not so distant future, to the books that people love to curl up in a chair with. :(


This message was edited May 29, 2005 12:20 AM

I agree. It is scary. Quite often I'l go to our library to get whatver - books for kids that I grew up with and my kids grew up with - only to find them not in our system.

End up having to buy them on ABE if I really want to use them.

Classics by Virginia Lee Burton are good examples. They are in community branches. Now they are PB though, and not catalogued. Cecily G is another one that I had to buy. Rots my socks. Plus all the revisioning going on. and so on and so forth. Could rant all day. Ferdinand is another one I had to buy.

Kids deserve these books. They are missing so much -