AMERICAN CONIFER SOCIETY coniferVOLUME 33, NUMBER 2 | SPRING 2016 QUARTERLY ENCOUNTERS WITH The Baker’s Cypress PAGE 18 SAVE THE DATE • 2016 SOUTHEAST REGION MEETING • AUGUST 26–28 • WAYNESBORO, VA TABLE O F CONTENTS 16 05 18 12 Welcome to the new ConiferQuarterly ACS Seed Exchange and How I Became By Ron Elardo 04 16 a Coniferite By Jim Brackman What Do Conifer Enthusiasts Need to Encounters with The Baker’s Cypress Know About Mycorrhizae? 05 18 By David Pilz By Bert Cregg, Ph.D. Comments on Conifers for Open Forum: Southeast Region ACS Part 1 09 22 Reference Gardens By Bob Fincham 2016 Southeast Region Meeting ACS Directorate By Jeff Harvey 12 23 Shady Characters: Conifers and Plants Made For Shade 14 By Rich and Susan Eyre Spring 2016 Volume 33, Number 2 ConiferQuarterly (ISSN 8755-0490) is published quarterly by the American Conifer Society. The Society is a non- Conifer profit organization incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and is tax exempt under Quarterly section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Service Code. You are invited to join our Society. Please address Editor membership and other inquiries to the American Conifer Ronald J. Elardo Society National Office, PO Box 1583, Minneapolis, MN 55311,
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