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CLIVIA EXECUTIVE COMMtTTEE MEMBERS Chairman: Chris Vlok, PO Box 99583, Garsfontein 0060, Tel H (012) 998 5942, e-mail [email protected] Secretary: Lena van der Merwe, PO Box 74868, Lynnwood Ridge, 0040, Tel & Fax (012) 804 8892, e-mail [email protected] Vice-Chairman: John van der Linde, 1 Wheelan Str., Newlands, 7700 Tel & Fax (021) 671 4535. e-mail [email protected] Treasurer Bossie de Kock, PO Box 38539, Garsfontein, 0042, Tel (012) 998 3620, e-mail [email protected] Office Bearer: John Winter, Tel & Fax H (021) 671 7422, Cell 082 575 7202, e-mail [email protected] CLUB REPRESENTATIVES/ALTERNATES (SHOWN !N BRACKETS) AND CONTACT PERSONS Cape Mick Dower, Ian Brown, Gert Wiese (Claude Felbert, Quentin Jansen, Toy Jennings) Northern Louis Swanepoel, Bossie de Kock, Lena van der Merwe (Geoff Meyer, Ammie Grobter, Ernie Hobbs) KwaZuiu Natal Sean Chubb (Brian Tarr) Eastern Province Charl Coetzee (Willie le Roux) Australia: Ken Smith: 593 Hawkesbury Rd., Winmalee, NSW 2777, Tel (612) 47543287, e-mail [email protected] United Kingdom: Mike Jeans: Hugietts Farm, Hugletts Lane, Heathfield, East Sussex, TN21 9BY. Tel 435 862 318, e-mail [email protected] USA: Sebrina Heroux; PO Box 255, North Grosvenordale, CT, 06255, USA, Tel 860 923 2964, Fax 860 923 1184, e-mail [email protected] New Zealand: Keith Hammett: 488C Don Buck Road, Massey, Auckland 8, New Zealand. Tel 64 9 833-9453; e-mail [email protected] CLIVIA CLUBS Cape Clivia Club: PO Box 53219, Kenilworth, 7745 Chairman: John Winter. Tel & Fax H (021) 671 7422, Cell 082 575 7202, e-mail [email protected] Secretary: Joy Woodward PO Box 53219, Kenilworth, 7745, Tel H (021) 671 7384, Tel W (021) 799 8768, Fax (021) 797 0002, e-mail [email protected] or [email protected] (Continued on inside back cover) CLIVIA SOCIETY COMMITEE MEMBERS Inside front and back cover EDITORIAL 2 FROM THE CHAIRMAN 3 STORIES BEHIND THE COVER PHOTOGRAPHS - Mick Dower 4 NOTES ON SOME 2002 "BEST ON SHOW" WINNERS 6 Northern Clivia Club Show - Dawie van Heerden 6 Metro Interest Group Show - Pikkie Strumpher 7 Cape Clivia Club Show - Felicity Weedon 8 CORRESPONDENCE 9 Growing clivias in a cold climate. Part 2 Growing seedlings on - Jim Shields 9 Quo Vadis 2002 - James Abel, Keith Hammett and Ken Smith 10 A short peduncle - Johan Lubbe 12 A clivia database - Viv Elliot 13 SNIPPETS FROM THE CLIVIA ENTHUSIAST E-MAIL GROUP 14 Cross pollination of Group 1 andGroup 2 Yellows 14 Berries falling off the umbel prematurely 15 Optimum pH level for clivia 15 Clarification on breeding multipetals 15 Severed seedling 16 Exciting find. ? Picotee 16 SOME EARLY NAMES ASSOCIATED WITH CLIVIA - NO. 3 WILLIAM JOHN BURCHELL - John van der Linde 18 "THE CAULESCENS TOUR SEPTEMBER 2002" - Ken Smith 19 NORTHERN CLIVIA CLUB 21 Motivation for Honorary Membership of the Northern Clivia Club: Connie and James Abel - Lena van der Merwe and Bossie de Kock 21 EASTERN PROVINCE CLIVIA CLUB 23 Abbreviated minutes of the Annual General Meeting 23 FORTHCOMING EVENTS 24 Annual General Meeting of the Clivia Society 24 KwaZulu Natal Clivia Club 24 2003 Show dates 24 FOR SALE 24 BEGINNER'S LUCK - GERMINATION OF CLIVIA SEED - Harry Erasmus 26 ON THE COMPOST HEAP - Meg Hart 27 Views expressed in the newsletter are not necessarily those of the Committee and the Clivia Society. 1 Editors of small journals, which appear responsible for the Clivia Enthusiast E-mail relatively frequently, are often confronted by Group. The implications of this changeover, concerns of the sufficiency of material, only whether acceptable and feasible or not, are in the end to find that articles have to be being discussed. More will be reported on omitted. There is much that could be added this subject in the next newsletter. to this issue, but items that have been left out The present newsletter begins with the need to be discussed with the Management "Stories behind the photographs" on its Committee before they can be published. cover and continues with reflections on What has not been mentioned in this some of the "Best on Show" photographs in newsletter is that Ken Smith from Australia, "Clivia 5". Jim Shields concludes his article as Chairman of the Registration Committee on 'Growing clivias in a cold climate' in the of the Clivia Society, submitted the Clivia correspondence section. The Clivia Society Society's application for registration of clivia has been in existence for ten years and cultivars to the International Society for Keith Hammett and Ken Smith offer sugges Horticultural Science. At their August meet tions as to where South African growers ing in Toronto, the Commission reaffirmed should be directing their efforts in the future. the Clivia Society as the International Johan Lubbe relates his shock treatment for Cultivar Registration Authority (ICRA) for the a short peduncle and Viv Elliot has genus Clivia. He has been collating a list of introduced an exciting concept of a software cultivars during the past year and will be programme that can be used to keep records reporting on his efforts at the Annua! of clivia cultivation. The Clivia Enthusiast E- General meeting to be held in May 2003. mail Group always has many interesting topics to discuss and some are repeated Apropos this, there has been a "Motivation here for the benefit of those who are not for Registration of Cultivars" from Dr. Louis part of this group. While Ken Smith from Potgieter of the Northern Clivia Club that Australia was in South Africa in September would provide for controlled breeding pro last year he joined the Abels and others on grammes of South African cultivars. This is a tour of the areas in which C. caulescens is an involved procedure and requires more found. His impressions of the trip are discussion and refinement and it will be highlighted here. published in the Newsletter in due course. Clivia news is not only about the plants and The Clivia Enthusiast E-mail Group has flowers but also about people. John van der grown to almost 400 members and is an Linde has interesting facts on William John internationally recognised clivia forum. This Burchell in his series about "Some early electronic medium has probably done more names associated with clivia". The Abels to promote clivia worldwide than any other have been in the limelight and have been group. Rudo Lotter has recommended that made Honorary Members of the Northern the Clivia Society becomes the body Clivia Club. Their contribution to the Clivia 2 Society and the Northern Clivia Club is almost all the articles. The Clivia Society detailed in the motivation tor their nomina has many mentors who have generously tion. Now that the Eastern Province Clivia given advice, encouragement, seed and Club is no longer an Interest Group but a plants to beginners and new collectors. This fully-fledged club it has held its first Annual generosity has contributed to making the General Meeting. An abbreviated version of Clivia Society what it is today. the minutes of this meeting relates their activities. Harry Erasmus's reflections on Note that the rates for advertisements have "Germination of clivia seed" (given to the e- been adjusted. The Clivia Society Annual group) are reproduced in "Beginner's Luck". Genera] Meeting is to be held in Port It emphasizes the importance of cleanliness Elizabeth on 17 May 2003. The delegates are and sterility when germinating clivia seed. The Editor greatly appreciates all your the Clivia Society's committee members and contributions. Clivia Club/Associate member representa tives. All Clivia Society members are invited The underlying theme in this newsletter to attend as observers. namely, the help given to members needing advice and support, comes through in Editor. Enquiries, which I received during the last system of administration was put in place. three weeks, indicate that there is a lack of The idea was to coordinate the interests, knowledge regarding the structuring of the activities and objectives of regional Clivia Clivia Society and especially the status of Clubs that were already in existence. Prior to overseas members. Two questions that I 1999 the then Clivia Club had approximately received serve as examples: 800+ individual members. The Clivia Society is a more streamlined organisation — as a ● "why are we considered Associate Mem decision-making body it consists of a small bers when we pay the same subscription Executive Committee and Club Representa as the South African Members?" tives that are appointed by the respective ● "I suspect that you are equating "Mem clubs and not by the Clivia Society. A club bers Resident Outside RSA" with the term can have a maximum of three representatives Associate Member..., but I do not like the should the membership of such a club term as it suggests "second tier" exceed 200. Individual clubs determine their own membership fees but all clubs pay a I agree that the Associate Members are a standardised per capita fee to the Clivia special category of member, but there are Society. good reasons for this. When the Clivia Society was established in 1999 a federal A practicality with which the writers of the 3 constitution were faced in 1999 was that the General Meeting (scheduled for 17 May 2003) overseas members were not organised in in such a way that more than the current club context. Much thought went into solving maximum of three Associate Member repre the "problem" and eventually it was decided sentatives may serve on the Clivia Society. to administer the overseas members accord One of the variables which we feel should be ing to the following two basic principles.