took these pics from the 1956 book with my camera...so try hard to see them
some old tyme favorites....
Oh very pretty! I love the older plants!
don't think these pics in the first edition of the book by wilson lorry..not sure....i like the oldies as well..
Me too !
Nice! 'Neptune' is stunning... Another page, pretty please?
critter..sure..let me take some more with the camera
Neptune is still around, I think I saw one on eBay today
here's 3 more...amazon purple prince....snow prince...and Tinari pink luster...you recall that Anne and Frank Tinari...not only early pres..secry..etc of AVSA..but some great hybridizers in their own right...along with lyndon lyon..champions etc..
and these might be smaller
APOLLO is the one on the upper left in previous pic
Helen Wilson...(named after author of ALL the av books..Helen Van Pelt Wilson)
and Tinari's America
Thanks for sharing your book with us! 'Helen Wilson' is just stunning!
critter you're more than welcome...i see that the ORIGINAL very first African Violet book by Helen Wilson...published in 1949 is now on ebay with 2 other books...it does not have pictures...just drawings...but is important as the very first book..
http://cgi.ebay.com/3-AFRICAN-VIOLET-Helen-VanPelt-Wilson-HOUSE-PLANTS_W0QQitemZ7743821305QQcategoryZ1510QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
I love oldies. Champion , Volkman, Tinari are a few Hybridizers I love any of their plants I can get :))
allison ...everyone....i'm looking for a STANDARD trailing av.....i just can't handle the mini's...my hands are too big...but i would like to find a standard trailer....
I jave standard trailers Bob. Bob trailer size is not by the size of plant but the size of the leaf. A Miniature trailer can be in a big pan pot flowing over the side ! I have a minature trailer siin going into a 5 inch pan pot.
This is a standard trail in a 5 inch pan pot . Now if it blooms :))
Angel Tears Trail (6126) 01/22/1986 (C. Sotkiewicz) Double white frilled/pink fantasy. Medium green, pointed, quilted. Standard trailer
Here is a miniature trailer that won't stop blooming and growing I love her ! She will also be going into a 5 inch pan pot soon !
Aly's Rosy Baby (Droege) Semidouble rose. Dark pointed. Miniature trailer (User Database)
She is in the middle I cropped her out of a bunch of blooms !
Bob, I've got 'Allegro Appalachian Trail', a standard with a nice fantasty bloom. Its structure for me has been a relatively open growth pattern, so it's easy to work with. (By contrast, my plant of 'Biscayne Trail', a girl leaf standard, has such a tight grouping of leaves that there's no clipping crowns without a good bit of collateral damage.)
My "Humpty Who" and "Guessaroo" noids (sports of Rob's Humpty Doo and Rob's Gundaroo) are miniatures, but not micro-minis, and they have been pretty easy to work with also.
Maybe we can set up a trade this spring for one of your gorgeous plumerias.... ;-)
Otherwise, I will just have to acquire an episcia or two so you'll trade with me, LOL.
critter...of course...let me know when you're ready...
Critter :) if you want to acquire some episcia :) Just let me know! They are my second obssession :)
That's a beauty Allison!
Bob, I know what you mean about the size of the mini/micro mini's, but I just can't resist them. I have to admit that I find it a bit easier using tools rather than my fingers to work with them...might that work for you?
anita...i'm going to have to work on it....seems when i take my fingers out the plants come with them..lol...
LOL, Lorry... If I can't persuade Bob to accept an AV or two, maybe I can send you some extras and then you can send him some episcia and then he can send me a plumeria cutting.... :-)
Bob, I'll be posting in big celebratory letters when the weather is warm enough for shipping! I'm thinking I'll get my Secret Easter Bunny trade box out first, and then get my other boxes packed & shipped.
Anita, I've needed to resort to tools on some of the little ones, but I'm not very good at it. Same reason I hate to wear gloves when I garden -- I just can't feel what I'm doing. But knock on wood, the only one I've really managed to butcher so far was 'Teeny Bopper' and actually, it didn't look bad or damaged following de-crowning, but it just dried up & died afterwards.
well i am all thumbs...lol.......hey..that would be a good name for a mini.....
ALL THUMBS c@2006JUNGLEBOB...........rofl...
how did that happen above..ie "email"...lol
hmmm..not sure, but great pic!
Very cool! Scarlet Ibis?
i always get the Ibis and egrets mixed up....
Ibis have a downward curve to their bills. And when you go much north of Florida, the white birds are egrets by default... I think Ibis are pretty tropical.
When I was in GA, a Roseate Spoonbill got blown off course or something and showed up in the Woodstork rookery. He spent the winter with them, no problem, but then in spring he started trying out his courtship rituals on the femailes and was repeatedly and thoroughly rebuffed. He finally flapped off disconsolately southward. Poor birdie!
jill...omgosh...lol..poor thing...well i suspect these are ibis here...
Bob, the next noid I get with thumbprint markings I am going to call All Thumbs! LOL I do have one I'm so-creatively calling "Purple Thumbprint" but I think it's a semimini.
jill...that's great...lol....next is ALL EYES.....and ALL EARS?....roflmbbo.....
LOL! The "All Ears" designation should go to 'Cambridge Missy'... I've never seen such crowded leaf pots as I have from that one! Hmmm, for "All Eyes" we need a noid like 'Smitten Kitten', a profuse bloomer with a darker eye on each bloom....
We ramble a lot in this forum, don't we? *grin*
he he
Jill do you have Vintage ? I know Bob likes vintage he wants Black Ace ! And I think he will love The KInG too :))
Vintage AVs are wonderful! I haven't made a special point of searching for them, so I'm not sure which ones on my list are vintage, but every time somebody posts a picture (like 'Black Ace') I just go oooooooohhhhh. LOL
I think my 'Kingwood Blue' is vintage, 1983... vintage is over 20 years old?
Oh yes ! I bet Bob would like 'Kingwood Blue'
I know I do :))
Kingwood Blue (5448) 08/20/1983 (Eyerdom) Double light blue. Medium green, quilted girl foliage. Standard
Jill i can give you Black Ace plant or leaves !
Leaves of 'Black Ace' would be wonderful, Allison! I'm getting pretty confident about propagating standards from leaf, and this would be a fun one to share around too.
Allison, you get the first available 'Kingwood Blue' plantlet... but I've got a couple of leaves down that hopefully will pop ears any day now.... I know it's on several wish lists in my trade tracker!