Primroses The Quarterly Of The American Primrose Society Autumn 2017 Vol. 75 No. 4 American Primrose Society Autumn 2017
OFFICERS Primroses Editor Rhondda Porter, Acting Jane Guild The View from Here President/Vice President 2546 Wentwich Road Primroses 3604 Jolly Roger Crescent Victoria BC V9B 3N4 Canada [email protected] Julia Haldorson, Pender Island, BC V0N 2M2 The Quarterly of the [email protected] Editorial Committee Membership Secretary American Primrose Society Maedythe Martin Michael Plumb, Secretary Judith Sellers Michael Plumb 3604 Jolly Roger Crescent Alan Lawrence Membership in the American Primrose Society runs Pender Island, BC V0N 2M2 Joan Hoeffel on the calendar year and includes four issues of our Volume 75 No 4 Autumn 2017 [email protected] Editorial Deadlines journal “Primroses”; the first issue being Winter, on Winter issue - October 15 The purpose of this Society is to bring the Jon Kawaguchi, Treasurer Spring issue - January 15 to Spring, Summer and with Fall, the last issue for 3524 Bowman Court Summer issue - April 15 the year. As we are at the end of the calendar year, people interested in Primula together in an Alameda, CA 94502 Autumn issue - July 15 [email protected] ©American Primrose Society 2017 renewals for 2018 are due around November 15, organization to increase the general knowledge Primroses (ISSN 0162-6671) is . DIRECTORS published by the American Primrose, 2017 of and interest in the collecting, growing, Primula and Auricula Society. All breeding, showing and using in the landscape Through 2018 . . . Amy Olmsted material printed in the quarterly, except You can use PayPal to renew on the APS website, 421 Birch Road as noted, is copyright by APS. No part may be reproduced without the or the membership application form found there. and garden of the genus Primula in all its forms Hubbardton VT 05733 permission of APS Manuscripts for Submit payment to our Treasurer: and to serve as a clearing house for collecting [email protected] publication are invited, though there is no payment. Send articles, preferably in and disseminating information about Primula. Ed Buyarski Microsoft Word, directly to the editor. Jon Kawaguchi P.O. Box 33077 Photographs are credited and used 3524 Bowman Court Contents Juneau, AK 99803-3077 only with the permission of the Alameda, California 94502 USA [email protected] photographer. Photos submitted to The View from Here by Julia Haldorson, the editor are preferred in 300 dpi Through 2019 . .Julia Haldorson, digital format but other images can Membership Secretary ���������3 Membership be accepted. Any material used that has previously appeared elsewhere is Please renew today using these easy steps: Distant Cousins, notes from the Editor ��4 P. O. Box 292 properly credited and used with the Greenbank, Washington 98253 Donating & Ordering Seeds 9 permission of the original publisher • Check out the Membership List in this issue of [email protected] and/or creator. “Primroses” to see if your membership expires Martin Davies, a chat with Jane Guild �� 10 Membership in the Society includes Merrill Jensen a subscription to Primroses, seed in 2017. Maria Sybilla Merian 21 c/o Jensen-Olson Arboretum exchange privileges, password to the 23035 Glacier Highway member’s only section of the APS web • If your membership expires in 2017 - go to the The Unexpected Houseplant by Tovah Juneau AK 99801 site (including the Pictorial Dictionary) and use of the slide library. website to renew either by using PayPal or the Martin, a Book Review ...... 22 [email protected] Dues for individual or household membership application form. (Please note: Membership List 23 Through 2020 . . . . . Cheri Fluck membership, domestic and Canada 22675 SW Chapman Rd, Wing A are: Canadian members should not use Canadian Minutes of the Board Meeting held on Sherwood, Oregon 97140 $25 per calendar year checks. Our bank charges us $10US for each $70 for three years [email protected] August 6, 2017 27 Overseas rates are: Canadian check we deposit. International Money $32 per calendar year Officers of the Chapters 31 Mark Dyen $90 for three years. Orders can be deposited without a fee.) 132 Church Street Membership renewals are due Newton, MA 02158 November 15 and are delinquent • Submit your renewal to our Treasurer on or [email protected] January 1. Submit payment to the treasurer. around November 15, 2017. Advertising rates per issue: Black and White: Questions about your membership? Full page: $100 Contact Julia Haldorson at [email protected]. Credits: Photos and text reproduced with permission. Half page: $60 1/4 page: $30 1/8 page: $15 Front Cover: Kevin Baker’s seedling from Derek Salt’s Color: seed. More polys from Derek available in the seed Half page: $150 Full page: $300 exchange. Back Cover: $450 Contact the treasurer for details. Back Cover: Primula rusbyi seed capsules from Kevin Baker. American Primrose Society Autumn 2017
Distant Cousins Additional Notes Recent molecular studies show that the genera Douglasia (found in Notes from Wikipedia by the Editor north-western North America and easternmost Siberia), Pomatosace (an Himalayan endemic) and Vitaliana (a European endemic) are nested within Androsace.[3][6]Phylogenetic studies have also demonstrated that Sometimes we forget the other memebers of the family Primulacea. A quick scan of the ancestor of Androsace first appeared about 35 million years ago and Wikipedia provided the following information. For rock gardeners there are some was most probably an annual species.[7] Evolution towards the denser interesting footnotes. Many of these are available in the APS Seed Exchange. morphology of cushions took place two times independently in Asia and in Europe. Douglasia and Vitaliana were formerly treated as separate Dodecatheon genera. Dodecatheon (comomonly known as Shooting Star) is related to the genus Primula (primroses and related plants); in fact, Primula without Dodecatheon Cyclamen is paraphyletic. One way of avoiding this is to move the Dodecatheon species Cyclamen is a genus of 23 species of perennial flowering plants in the into Primula. If this is done, the former genus Dodecatheon becomes a family Primulaceae. Cyclamen species are native to Europe and the monophyletic section, Primula subg. Auriculastrum sect. Dodecatheon (L.) Mediterranean Basin east to Iran, with one species in Somalia. They A.R.Mast & Reveal. There are 17 species. (James L. Reveal. “Revision of grow from tubers and are valued for their flowers with upswept petals Dodecatheon (Primulaceae)”. apparently prepared for Flora of North America) and variably patterned leaves. It was traditionally classified Androsace in the family Primulaceae, was reclassified in the Androsace, commonly known as Rock Jasmine, is a genus in the family family Myrsinaceae in Primulaceae, second only to Primula in number of species. It is a 2000, and finally, in 2009 predominantly Arctic–alpine genus with many species in the Himalayas with the introduction of (where the genus originated), the mountains of central Asia, the Caucasus, the APG III system, was and the southern and central European mountain systems, particularly returned to the subfamily the Alps and the Pyrenees. Myrsinoideae within the Plants of this genus are sometimes known as rock jasmines or fairy family Primulaceae. candelabras and are widely cultivated for their dense cushions covered in Serious cyclamen growers white or pink flowers. There are about 110 species. don’t seem to think of it first of all as being in the Dionysia family Primulaceae. They just think of them as cyclamen. Dionysia is a genus containing 49 species of flowering plantsin the family PLANTS SENT BARE-ROOTED TO THE Primulaceae. They are small, cushion-forming alpines native to mountains U.S. WITH PHYTOSANITARY in central Asia. They are usually evergreen perennials with felted leaves, CERTIFICATE. covered with bright yellow or pink, five-petalled flowers in spring.They are often difficult to cultivate if the correct conditions are not provided. American Primrose Society Autumn 2017
Dodecatheon Androsace
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Cyclalmen Donating & Ordering Seeds L e f t : C y c l a m e n _ balearicum_Mallorca_ 003 By Orchi - Self- The 2017-2018 APS p h o t o g r a p h e d , CC BY-SA 3.0, Seed Exchange list httpscommons. of available seeds wikimedia.orgwindex. phpcurid=3795464 will be on the APS website in late Below: By Abalg - Own December, with a product suggest by :The cyclamen society Grey- link to Instructions Wilson C. - Cyclamen: and a printable Order A Guide to Gardeners, Horticulturists and Form. Members Botanists (New edition), may also request a Timber Press Inc., Portland, Oregon, 2003 This seed pod was so excited, it printed copy of the background map from split its outer skin getting ready Image:Blank map of List, Instructions South Europe and North for the Seed Exchange! and Order Form by Africa.svg by Historicair, under licenses GFDL sending a stamped, & CC-BY-SA-2.5., CC BY-SA 3.0, https:// s e l f - a d d r e s s e d commons.wikimedia. envelope to Amy org/w/index. php?curid=3841839 Olmsted 421 Birch Road, Hubbardton, VT 05733 And remember: it’s not too late to send in your seed Look for Auricula x from Maedythe donations! Martin in the Seed Exchange.
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Martin Davies Jane: How do you manage the farina? We’re so wet here, it gets messy really An ONLINE interview with Jane Guild easily.
Martin Davies is a regular poster to The Primula Lovers’ Group on Facebook, with Martin: numerous beautiful photos of his plants, some of which follow this article. Martin In late winter I just dig them up and keep them in a frame to protect has a number of plants that he has named for family members, and I really wanted to them from the rain, after the shows back in the border unless I require know how that came about. I had the opportunity to chat with him online and asked them for seed. him about it. What follows is our conversation: Jane: That’s dedication! Jane: The ones you named for family members - did you choose them for How did you get started with auriculas? particular characteristics? Martin: Martin: An old neighbour had one growing in her border and that’s how I got Not really, if I like them and they win at a show I name them after the bug, I love the breeding bit the most, love seeing seedlings flowering friends and family. Norrie Mason is very perfumed and it reminded me for the first time. of my auntie Norrie (she loved her perfume), that’s why that one was I have been growing them for about 9 yrs. named Norrie Mason. Karl Johnson was named after my best friend who died suddenly aged 44, he loved flowers, it was the first one I named Jane: and probably one of my best so far. Molly-May was named after my No doubt! My mom [Maedythe Martin] grew them my whole childhood, daughter, she loved it when it flowered for the first time and it went on to and still hybridizes stripes, but I don’t seem to have the knack for it. win at Knowle, so I named it after her, although it is a terrbible grower! You are doing amazing things for being a relative newcomer to the Mary Mason is named after my mother, Ellen-May is named after my genus. wife and Alan Davies is named after my father. Alfie Davies is named after my son, Alfred Williamson is named after my best mate. None of the wire-edged seedlings have been to the shows yet so only have local Martin: names so that I can take off sets with out getting them mixed up, hope I will probably get more into the showing side once I have a greenhouse to get them to the shows this year. I don’t have a green house yet, I have to help bring them on for the shows. Athough I still manage to get a few a large frame and once my seed has germinated and grown on for a few on the bench without a greenhouse, just a large frame and some small months they then go into the border until flowering the following spring plastic greenhouses. and are then selected or usually sent to the compost bin! They mostly flower in the border 1 year after germination. Jane: I am breeding them mostly this year and the ones with farina on and a How many mature plants do you think you have? few doubles.
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Martin: My main frame is built so that my plants are at chest height. I have had 3 major lots of spinal surgery so it’s hard bending, I have 12 screws, 2 titanium rods and 2 titanium cages through my spine, I find the plants are very therapeutic and helped my recovery from surgery, I just could not wait to get back mobile and get back to my plants!
Jane: That’s astounding. I’m so glad the plants have been a benefit for you. I find gardening to be very therapeutic as well.
Martin: I don’t have as many mature plants as when I started, mainly because I keep mainly my own seedlings, probably have about 50 mature named varieties, I try to raise between 500 and 1000 seedlings in the border. I get the children to help and once all the seedlings are all in the border they just look after themselves, just a bit of watering with the hose pipe in summer, I have made rearing them as simple and easy as possible due to my back but it seems to work very well for me.
Jane: Wire-edged seedling, unnamed. You really do have the magic touch.
Martin: In late winter - early spring I lift the plants with a trowel, pot them on and keep them under cover in the frame or the small plastic greenhouses. I have been told I am green fingered! lol
Martin Davies’ beautiful plants follow:
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Seedlings growing in the border. Mary Mason, border.
Robert Johnson, border. Unnamed seedling, border.
14 Karl Johnson, border. 15 Norrie Mason, border (pubescens cross x border) American Primrose Society Autumn 2017
Alfie Davies, border.
Wire-edged seedling, unnamed.
Molly-May, fancy.
16 17 American Primrose Society Autumn 2017 Maria Sibylla Merian (2 April 1647 – 13 January 1717) A German- born naturalist and scientific illustrator Left: a plate from the book “Maria Sibylla Merian: The New Book of Flowers” (Prestel Publishing; April 1999) depicting a Primula with dragonfly and butterfly
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Maria Sibylla Merian
Maria Sibylla Merian (born April 2, 1647, died Juanuary 13, 1717) was a German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator, a descendant of the Frankfurt branch of the Swiss Merian family, founders of one of Europe’s largest publishing houses in the 17th century. Merian received her artistic training from her stepfather, Jacob Marrel, a student of the still life painter Georg Flegel. Merian published her first book of natural illustrations, titled Neues Blumenbuch, in 1675 at age 28. In 1699, following eight years of painting and studying, and on the encouragement of Cornelis van Aerssen van Sommelsdijck, the then-governor of the Dutch colony of Surinam, the city of Amsterdam awarded Merian a grant to travel to South America with her daughter Dorothea. Her trip, designed as a scientific expedition makes Merian perhaps the first person to “plan a journey rooted solely in science.” After two years there, malaria forced her to return to Europe. She then proceeded to publish her major work, Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium (de), in 1705, for which she became famous. Because of her careful observations and documentation of the metamorphosis of the butterfly, she is considered by David Attenborough to be among the most significant contributors to the field of entomology. She was a leading entomologist of her time and she discovered many new facts about insect life through her studies. Merian was honored on a German currency 500 DM Deutsche Mark banknote in 1991, issued by the Deutsche Bundesbank (above). She was also featured on a 40 Pf.(German pfennig) stamp in 1991 (left). On April 2, 2013, Merian was Above: © Polyanthus and Primroses. Illustration by Maria Sibylla Merian h o n o u r e d (1647-1717), watercolour on vellum. From the Sir Arthur Church Collection, with a Google Doodle (right), in Kew. © The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew celebration of her 366th birthday.
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International American Primrose Society Australia 2017 Laurie McInnes 135 Ashley St. Roseville New South Wales 2069 Minutes of the Board Meeting held on Belgium 2020 Geert Thiers Bloemenlei 10 B 2930 Brasschaat England August 6, 2017 2017 John N. Gibson ‘Farinosa’, 3A Primrose Lane Kirkburton Huddersfield Yorkshire HD8 0QY 2017 John Horsfield 25 Valley Rise Watford Hertfordshire WD25 7ET 2017 Ingrid Millington Worfield, Hillview Bridgnorth Shropshire WV15 5NT The meeting was held online. Quorum and start at 6.05 pm, EDST. 17T Mrs. V. A. Pugh ‘Brikama’, Hawthorn Manor Uttoxeter Staffs ST14 7PH 2018 Giles Reed 22A Charlton Rd Aynho, Banbury Oxfordshire 0X17 3AD Board members present: Rodney Barker (President, New England Chapter), Mark 2018 Leslie Roberts Pop’s Plants Pop’s Cottage, Barford Lane Downton, Salisbury Wiltshire SP5 3PZ Dyen (Director), Merrill Jensen (Director and President, Juneau Chapter), Alan Lawrence 2017 Derek William Salt Thislldo, St Michael’s Lane Wainfleet St Mary, Skegness Lincolnshire PE24 4HB 2017 Neil Tyers 6 Street David’s Crescent Coalville Leicestershire LE67 4SS (APS President), Michael Plumb (Secretary and Webmaster), Rhondda Porter (APS Vice- GS NA&PS, Southern Region Mr. L.E. Wigley 67 Warnham Court Rd. Carshalton Beeches Surrey SM5 3ND President) GS NA&PS, Midland & West Section Roger Woods 44 Tansey Crescent Stoney Stanton Leicestershire LE9 4BT GS The Alpine Garden Society A.G.S. Centre Avon Bank Pershore Worcestershire WR10 3JP Regrets: Jon Kawaguchi (Treasurer), Julia Haldorson (Membership Secretary). GS NA&PS, Northern Section Mr. D. Skinner Stonehaven, Nanny Lane, Church Fenton Tadcaster North Yorkshire LS24 9RL 2017 Miss Stone The Grebe, North Petherwin Launceston Cornwall PL15 8LR A. Approval of the Agenda (Mark /Michael) with the addition of proposal for France subscription increase under New Business. 2017 Mrs. Lynne Lawson Barnhaven Primroses 11 Rue du Pont Blanc 22310 Plestin Les Graves Germany B. Approval of Minutes of January 29, 2017 (Mark / Michael) 2017 Bernd Franzen Im Baumgarten 9 51105 Cologne LF Dr. Alarich Kress Edelweiss - Strasse 9 D-82194 Grobenzell C. Business Arising from the minutes of January 29, 2017, and Old Business LF Georg Maerz Postfach 150308 D-70076 Stuttgart GS Bibliothek Botanischer Garden und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem D - 14191 Berlin 1. Signage for the national primula Collection and Word Garden at the Iceland Jensen-Olson Arboretum in Juneau: LF Fridrik Skulason Stigahlid 65 Reykjavik IS 105 a. The sign is completed and should arrive in Juneau later in the week. Ireland b. Merrill will install it and send a photo of it to the board. GS Library, National Botanic Gardens Librarian Glasnevin Dublin 9 2. Application by the APS to become the International Cultivar Naming Japan Authority for Primula: 2019 Watanabe Isao 234-1 Simotoube Kanuwashi, Tochigi Ken 322-0079 a. Merrill has joined in the preparation of the Application Form started by LF Takao Maki 7-11-6 Kugenuma-Kaigan Fujisawa-251 Alan and Michael. Dean Wiegert has expressed interest in contributing. New Zealand 2018 Mrs. Heather Sell 49 Mill Road Waimate Sth Canterbury b ACTION: Rhondda will arrange a chat to include all parties interested in 2018 Diana A. Whimp 47A Whau Valley Rd. Whangarei 0112 Northland preparing the form: Alan, Michael, Merrill and Dean, and she will contact Matt Norway Mattus of NARGS to see if he is interested. 2017 Gunnar Bekken Hesthagen 1 7290 Storen 2017 Aase Garstad Tortenlivein 22 8218 Fauske D. Treasurer’s Report (Emailed before the meeting) LF Magnus Valvik Torborg Nedreaas gt. 20 N-5006 Bergen 1. Report presented for the May meeting: Scotland a. Income less expenses January 1st to March 31st 2017: $1,306.26 2018 Mrs. Jeanie Jones Kilnpotlees Kettleholm Lockerbie Dumfriesshire DG11 1DD b. Total liabilities and equity as of March 31st 2017: $28,426.94 2017 Spedding Micklem 1, Dryden Place Edinburgh EH9 1RP 2. Treasurer’s Report for August meeting: Spain st th 2017 Michael Anderson Zahara 24-1B 48460 Orduna Vizcaya a. Income less expenses January 1 to June 30 2017: $391.34 th Switzerland b. Total liabilities and equity as of June 30 2017: $27,513.02 LF Peter Kade Oberhofstettenweg 5 St Gallen 9012 3. ACTION: Rhondda will contact Maedythe (Q. editor) and/or Jon (treasurer) to The Netherlands find out why Barnhaven has not been billed for advertising. She will also contact 2017 Gerben Bauke v.d. Veen Nieuwe Tijningen 78 5301 DA Zaltbommel Primula sellers who advertise in the NARGS Quarterly to invite them to advertise 2019 J. W. M. van Saase IJweg 1063 2133 MH Hoofddorp in our Quarterly. Wales 2019 Les Allen Windy Ridge Llandrindad Wells Powys LD11 5NY 4. MOTION (Mark / Michael) to accept. Carried. E. Committee Reports LF=Life Member GS=Garrden Club T=Twin 1. (Julia, by email) Please remember to renew your subscription to the APS by the deadline, November 15, 2017 and consider Membership : a gift membership for a friend. Thank You. a. On March 25, 2017 sixteen letters with return envelopes were mailed to a select group of US lifetime members who had not been heard from for a while 26 27 American Primrose Society Autumn 2017
(There are 28 US life members in total.). Some aims of this mailing were to interested. No sponsorship from the cruise line would be necessary. determine who was deceased, who had moved house, and who still wanted to Alan disagreed and stated that Cruise lines are looking for more receive the paper quarterly. They were also asked for their comments on the formally organized onboard activities. [At this point Merrill had to leave, running of the society. Of the 16 letters sent, 12 were returned. All except which meant there was no longer a quorum for the meeting.] ACTION: Michael one member were interested in receiving a paper quarterly. One member will contact cruise lines to determine feasibility of the proposal for a was deceased. Eight requested a user name and password for the website. ‘Primrose Cruise’. Comments were: “Great website.”, “Thanks for the update.”, “I look forward • Increase in membership fees: No action could be taken since there to reading the quarterly on line.”, “Thanks for checking on us ‘lifers’.”, “I enjoy was no longer a quorum. TABLED the quarterly a lot and want to see it continue.”. Two members do not want Q 2. National Show 2018 in Juneau, AK: mailed; they prefer to read it on line. a. ACTION: In a previous email Merrill asked the board to consider topics/ b. As of April 30 we had 247 members compared with 268 six months earlier, hands-on learning/workshops/lectures we’d like to ask our keynote speaker so in spite of the positive effect of the seed exchange, this is still a drop. Pam Eveleigh to present. c. MOTION (Mark/Rhondda): to approve Membership Report. Carried. b. Selection of venue, hotel bookings, etc. ongoing, and will be firmed up at 2. Editorial Committee (Alan): October and November meetings of the Juneau Garden Club. a. We have a new printing company, same pricing. 3. Destruction of National Collection in Berkshire Gardens, New England. b. Full report TABLED for next meeting. a. The Collection was weeded out by mistake. 3. Seed Exchange: b. ACTION: Mark will ask Matt Mattus of NARGS to approach Tower Hill a. Jon had included the final seed exchange accounting in his report (See item Botanical Gardens to see if they would support a re-established Collection D above). The exchange made a net profit of $656.49. (Our National Show is often held there.). b. ACTION: Rhondda will post a reminder on Facebook for members to save 4. Results of election to the board: seed. a. Michael reported that only 14 votes had been received, nearly all by surface c. The board wished to thank Amy Olmsted for her work organizing the seed mail. He will encourage online voting for the next election. exchange. b. Cheri Fluck and Mark Dyen have been re-elected as directors; no other 4. Website (See page 27 in the Summer Quarterly, under Secretary’s Report): candidates had been proposed. Internet browsers such as Firefox and Chrome no longer support the Java plug-in Sunday, October 29th, at 6.00 pm eastern. which we were using for board meetings in the chat room. The new types of chat G. Next meeting: application are based on HTML and are well supported, but we don’t have one H. Adjournment: (Michael) yet [Secretary’s note: This has now been remedied]. In any case, our website is beginning to look old-fashioned and needs a total overhaul. Apart from the limited fonts and rather complex layout, contributions to the Forum have dried up because it Respectfully submitted, Michael Plumb, Secretary is almost impossible to post photos with members’ submissions. The Gallery also needs improvement. Michael has therefore asked the technician to upgrade the website to the latest version to deal with these problems. F. New Business 1. National Show 2017 in Boylston, MA: a. So far the board has received no financial report. ACTION: Mark will see to sending the financial report from the 2017 National Show. b. Michael said he still had not received any photos for the website. We are sad to announce that long-time c. members’ proposals made at the National Show, 2017: APS member Rodney Barker has passed • TV documentary about N. American Primula in the ‘Nature’ series: ACTION: Alan will draw up the proposal and coordinate with Michael quietly and peacefully at home on October to approach the producers of ‘Nature’. 3, 2017. The Winter Issue of the Quartely • Cruise ship ‘Primrose Cruise’: Alan thought that we should present will feature reminiscences from the New a cruise line with a proposal for a specific set of formal lectures for anyone on board who would be interested. Other board members England Chapter . thought this was not likely to be accepted, but that it was quite easy to encourage a number of our members to book the same ship and hold meetings on board as a club with open admittance for anyone else 28 29 American Primrose Society Autumn 2017 Join the National New Members June 26 - October 15, 2017 Auricula & Year of Expiry Name Address 2019 bruce Cook PO Box 21, Cummaquid, Massachusetts 02637-0021 USA Primula Society 2018 Karen Griscom 3 Granite Street, Westerly, Rhode Island 02891 USA 2018 Catherine Powell 435 East 9th Avenue, Junction City, Oregon 97448 USA www.auriculaandprimula.org.uk 2018 Pascal Vigot 1171 Rang de la Seigneurie, Ste-Emelie-de- l’Energie, Quebec J0K 2K0 Canada 2018 Cynthia Walker 7320 Montagne Circle, Anchorage, Alaska 99507 USA 2018 William Winslow 3212 - 39th Avenue Southwest, Seattle, Washington 98116 USA Mr. Bobby Ward Executive Secretary, NARGS PO Box 18604 Raleigh, NC 27619-8604 £10.00 Overseas Membership.
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