Epi News San Diego Society, Inc.

February, 2010 Volume 35, Number 2

January, 2010 SDES Epi News Page 2

President‟s Corner: blooms. With the warm winter we have had so far our seem to be budding. This could The epies are loving all the rains this mean we will have an early bloom season or month. Hopefully the winds that are perhaps a longer bloom season. We can only accompanying the rain will not do to hope. much damage. I see my shade cloth has been Keep up the good work in this SDES' torn loose in a couple of places. Many of us have fortieth year. been trying to conserve water (the government edict) so it is nice for mother nature to send us some free stuff. At our January meeting members brought in quite a variety of Sandra

February Program: George French Hybrids Featured: In honor of George French‘s birthday, February‘s meeting will feature a presentation of his hybrids. The photos will be from George‘s personal slide collection.

lovely, ranging from delicate smalls and extra Last month‟s Program: smalls to magnificent extra large flowers. Many Epis from Germany of the shots included epi foliage as well as flowers, some of which showed distinctly that We were given a glimpse of hybrid epiphyllums many of the hybrids were the products of spe- from German hybridizer, Helmut Paetzold. cies crosses, with characteristics of plants like This was in the form of a slide show which in- anthonyanus and mac- cluded beautiful background music as well as ranthus. wonderful photography. The flowers were

Now is the Time

 Continue to watch weather reports for ing the winter rain. Switch those that freezing conditions. Do not prune frost- are dry with those that have soggy pot- damaged foliage until all threat of freeze ting mix. has passed.  Protect against strong sun. Don‘t allow  Watch for snails and slugs. plants to be exposed to intense sunlight.  Promote good bloom in mature epis Even the winter sun can damage epis. with a low-nitrogen fertilizer (0-10-10). Unseasonable warm temperatures, extra Reapply regularly if you use a liquid. water, and/or shade may be needed. Epis  To promote new growth on newly- love to be misted when the air is dry. potted or immature epis, use a higher  Protect budding plants from bud drop by nitrogen fertilizer (5-10-10) not moving the plants.  Plan your Mother‟s Day display.  Check plants to see that all are receiv- January, 2010 SDES Epi News Page 3

Wild Animal Park —–Jerry Moreau

We had some tremendous work Please note: the San Diego Zoological Society parties in January. Many people is now requiring all regular horticultural volun- showed up including a new volunteer at the WAP. teers at the WAP also become volunteers of the Welcome Jean Bonner. She shared with me that SD Zoological Society. What this means is that she had lots of fun and now is unsure why she did you must attend a volunteer orientation at either not come sooner. We continued to repot plants, the WAP or Zoo. do the winter feeding, and weeding. The plans for The next orientations for Horticulture the redesign of the area are under way and Volunteers to attend are February 10, 13, 17 and we hope to have drawings of the new design in 20 - all sessions from 11:30am until 12:30pm at February. the WAP. Volunteers who are already affiliated with the gardens may RSVP to attend one of these The next work parties will be February 13 & 27. sessions by e-mailing Carrie Hrvatin at [email protected]

Mother‟s Day, 2010: Epies in Fantasyland

SDES begins planning for the May 7 Exhibit Categories show and sale: There are several areas in which you can enter: Our annual Mother‘s day Show is a Display Table(s) featuring this year‘s theme in much-anticipated event every year. The show one of two categories: is only three months away; it‘s time to start Division 1 – mini display, half table or one planning. table display Putting on a large show every year is a Division 2 – two or more tables or floor dis- lot of work and a lot of fun, we couldn‘t do it play without all of you—generous and dedicated Educational Table-(minimum of two needed SDES members who pitch in to help wherever for judging). you are needed. New members are also wel- Flower Arrangements come to join in – you don‘t have to be an epi Epiphytic plants which are displayed on the expert to be part of the success of our show. stage. There is plenty of work for everyone to do in If you are not signing up for a display table, addition to entering the event. you can enter a few flowers on the Society‟s The theme is ―Epies in Fantasyland‖. Table. Reservations for display tables are being made You can also enter flowers in the Small now. Call Show Coordinator, Jerry Moreau, at Flower category, the New Hybrid category 619-208-7654 to reserve your space. There (new flowers registered within the last five will be sign-up sheets at upcoming meetings to years), the George French Hybrid table, and reserve your space for a display, various volun- everyone is asked to pick one flower to be dis- teer positions, and the potluck luncheon. played on the People‟s Choice Award table. (Continued on page 7) January, 2010 SDES Epi News Page 4

From our Librarian:

Outside of A Dog Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a Luckily the internet makes things easier for book. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx the person looking for out-of-print books. Sometimes private sellers will list used As I write this column it's raining outside, and my copies for sale on Amazon, so it is worth checking reluctance to go out in the wind and rain has out. I have had good luck buying used books inspired this month's subject, ―Where to find through sites such as Abebooks and Alibris. In copies of books on Epiphyllums‖. addition, there are booksellers that specialize in books such as Chuck Everson, Bookseller Suppose you were struck by a desire to look up (all one phrase) and Rainbow Gardens Bookshop. something in Scott Haselton's Epiphyllum Handbook. This urge will probably not strike on If you are looking for privately published books, the second Wednesday of the month, so you can't check with the specialist booksellers. You can get the book from the SDES library, and maybe often find these booksellers selling books at you'd rather not wait until then, anyway. You southern California cactus shows, such as the could try the public library, but this book seems to shows put on by the San Diego Cactus and be pretty rare in the library catalogs I checked – Succulent Society. This is nice, because you can San Diego Public Library does have a copy, but it examine the book before buying it. is in storage, and the four other public libraries I checked did not have copies. So, what about A final suggestion for places to look is on eBay, libraries that specialize in botanic subjects, such as where you can occasionally find old catalogs and the Huntington? Well, the Huntington has a copy, magazines for sale. Happy book shopping! but in order to view it you would have to travel to Los Angeles and turn in a request form, as it, too, Contact information: is in storage and not readily available.  Chuck Everson, Bookseller can be reached at: For this and other reasons, sometimes it is better to [email protected] have your own copy of a book. You can read it  Amazon is located at: www.amazon.com when you want and not have to worry about  Abebooks is located at: www.abebooks.com remembering to bring it along to the next SDES  Alibris Books and Music is at: general meeting. Since many of the books in the www.alibris.com SDES library are privately published or published  Rainbow Gardens Bookshop is at: so long ago they are out-of-print, finding copies to www.rainbowgardensbookshop.com buy is challenging. By Linda Sinkovic, Librarian

Fundraising for the WAP “Memorial Bench” continues with the “White Elephant” Sale at each general meeting. Interesting items that you might not need just might be someone else‘s treasure. Bring them to the General Meeting. Call Mildred with any questions you might have. 760-690-1124 or e-mail [email protected] January, 2010 SDES Epi News Page 5

Epiphyllum Species– Part II By Mrs. Cactus Pete (Courtesy of Madeline & George French) (Edited by Ron Crain, 11/2009)

The Oxypetalum group starts to bloom a little later For Part I, See Epi but healthy specimen plants usually produce new News-January, 2010, buds before the older ones have completely pgs 5-6 bloomed out, so that there is an almost constant

series of buds or flowers. This is especially true of The second division we call the Oxypetalum group E. pumilum, which we consider the best of its class. since this is the well-known Dutchman‘s Pipe, or The is rather small and compact. Even though Queen of the Night, which has such world wide the flowers seem to be smallest of the true species, distribution…the plant most often referred to as a the plant produces an abundant sequence of buds Night Blooming in the eastern U.S. The and flowers, literally frosted with bloom until the plant growth of the Oxypetalum group consists of weather is cold enough in the fall to blast its last two distinctly different types of stem growth…long buds. In Guatemala, we found a species in this spindling stems, terete or somewhat angular, topped class which is extremely graceful, with long pendu- gracefully with sprays of flat, somewhat wavy, lous branches and small compact growth. We almost papery, fibrous stems. These flowers have believe it will prove to be an exceptionally fine the typical Dutchman‘s Pipe form, the cup and plant even though it has not yet flowered for us. saucer with its more or less curved, swan-like neck of tube and ovary. In this group we find E. cauda- There seems but little fragrance among the night tum (E. pumilum), E. pulilum, E. oxypetalum, E. bloomers, however most of the day bloomers have a grandilobum, E. cartagense, E. macropterum (E. rather strong, lily-like, night fragrance which thomasianum ssp. thomasianum), and probably the vanishes with the rising sun. One of the new base- new E. gigas (E. grandilobum). bloomers, which we found in Southern Mexico, is

so very fragrant that a plant, blooming in the house, The third group of night-blooming Epies have is overwhelming with its strong scent. This plant perhaps the most interestingly beautiful plant has small, stubby growth. Using it for hybridizing, growth of all the Epies. These are the Fish-bone, or we have produced entirely new series of lovely, Ric-Rac species. We call this the Anguliger group. small growing, Orchid Cactus. Here we find no signs of the fibrous stems but, instead, rather lush growth which We like to divide the day blooming species into two suggests ferns with their unusually deeply incised groups; the tip bloomers and the base bloomers. lobes. The flowers are similar in form to those of We call the tip bloomers, the Crenatum group, since the Oxpetalum group. Here we place E. anguliger, it seems to be the best known of its class. Crossed E. darrahii (E. anguliger), and the new E. chryso- in Europe, about 1830, with Heliocereus speciosus cardium (S. chrysocardium). (Disocactus speciosus), E. crenatum formed the

first hybrids, the original parents of today‘s Orchid The night bloomers are mostly loved for their long Cactus. Nature had already produced a wild blooming periods. The Strictum group starts to Mexican hybrid, ackermannii (Disocactus acker- bloom in mid-May or early June and the older mannii), probably a cross of Heliocereus cinnabari- specimen plants produce a continuous series of nus (Disocactus speciosus ssp. cinnabarinus) and flowers, one after another. Older, more pot-bound an unknown Epi parent. It had escaped into many plants may produce as many as five or six series each summer. (Continued on page 10) January, 2010 SDES Epi News Page 6

bait under shelving units and on the shelves. Epi This n’ That Other members use Buggetta to keep snails in —-By Jerry Moreau check or the use of phosphorous snail pellets (one How does your epi collection grow? brand is sluggo) that kill the snail then break down into fertilizer. There is always the nightly visit into your garden with a flashlight in search of the Snails, Scale, and Ants – Oh My!! critters and just hand pick them off the plants and pots. I have found that since I have had some Mother Nature has blessed epiphyllums with one regular visitors- skunks and opossums, my snail of the most gorgeous blooms imaginable; however problem is gone but slugs still evade them by that beauty comes with a price. The price are the hiding under pots. Rumor has it that Jill Rowney pests that come along and also enjoy the plants but does the great snail dance (I have never seen the for very different reasons. great snail dance but from what I have heard it is a

sight to behold), rumor says it is something like Snails: Unless you are a this. She sneaks around at night slowly and fancier of escargot, most quietly collecting snails. When she feels there are epi growers are not very enough snails she then places them out onto found of snails and the ground in a circle. The drumming slugs. With the begins and she begins her dance. winter rains The moon filled night, the sounds and all the moisture that we have of the drums, and the crushing of now and into the spring these pests can the snails brings her into an ecstatic state. be a real problem. Here are some w a y s No snails are ever safe from this that our experts use to keep the snails a n d ritual. slugs at bay.

Barb Alverez says she used to Ants: Ants by themselves do not have a huge problem with snails and cause a great deal of damage to the epis. slugs. Here problem almost completely However they do foster and shepherd aphids, stopped when she placed decollate snails around which can cause damage. The most effective way her epis. They eat the common brown snail. As to control them is spraying with water and or they eat only the young snails, it does take a while insecticidal soap. for complete control. Obviously no pesticides can

be used because that will kill the good decollate Scale: No one likes to see scale on their plants. snails too. Barb pointed out that they are not Scale is a tiny sucking insect with a hard shell. permitted in certain county locations in Southern The shell makes it difficult to treat. The most California as they may affect native snail and slug common method used by our experts is alcohol. populations. It is always wise to check before you For small amounts you can use a q-tip and rub the start any pest control. Barb said she was warned alcohol on the spot. A cotton ball and alcohol can about the decollate snails eating tender seedlings, also be used. For larger areas use alcohol in a but she has not had a problem with this. Sandra spray bottle. Linda Eastman in New York uses Chapin used this method a few years ago. She one TBS each of rubbing alcohol, mild dish agreed that it worked great until the snails wan- detergent, and mineral oil in the spray bottle filled dered off to their neighbor‘s yard in search of with water. Systemic insecticides will also work. more food. Sandra commented that she is not sure

how often to re-populate the decollate snails. Beth I hope these tips help you to keep your plants Jackson said her snail and slug population de- healthy and looking good. creased when she removed her plants from the

automatic watering system. She also spreads snail Till next time – Happy Growing! January, 2010 SDES Epi News Page 7

Mother‟s Day Show/Sale– Preparing for the Show  Order exhibitor table sign at the meetings May 6-7 (Continued from page 3)  Make cuttings from your plants. Label each with the name, size, and color. Bring them in to Volunteers Needed the April general meeting and/or board meet- There are many ways in which members ings. can participate in our annual show besides ex-  Sign up to bring item for potluck luncheon hibiting in the show. Here are some of the  Return perpetual trophies ways in which you can help:  Promote the show to your friends, families,  Truck to transport cuttings and plants co-workers, and neighbors. Flyers will be  Truck to pick up all SDES‘ show items available at the meetings to pick up and dstrib- from storage and return afterwards. ute.  Making, labeling, bagging, counting cut- Design a display table and a flower arrange- tings ment featuring the show‘s theme of ―Epies in Fantasyland‖  Cashiers

 Sales help Look for more information at the meetings and  Plant sitters future issues of EpiNews  Potluck/kitchen coordinator  Show set-up and clean up afterwards Set up and take down of sales canopies

Fundraiser Trip to “Chekwaa Gardens”

Our first fun trip of the year will be on Satur- day, April 24th, from 10 – 2 (longer if you wish or more (members) which includes LUNCH. to stay). The guided tour will be at Chekwaa Guest‘s donations of $15.00 or more ….if there Gardens at Barona Resort & Casino. is room. Chekwaa, which means ―to grow‖, is in All proceeds will benefit the ―Memorial this native tradition of stewardship that their Bench‖ at the Epi House at the Wild Animal garden specialists have developed the grounds Park. To make your donation and reservations into different thematic gardens against a back- please see Gerry or Mildred Mikas at the next drop of live oaks and weathered boulders. meeting or send your donation check, marked At the south end of the resort a Chef‟s ―SDES WAP BENCH” to: Garden is in the nursery compound. Past the The Mikas‟ stone greeters is the Water Garden. There is 3502 Avenida Amorosa, also the Sunset Garden, the beautiful Golf Escondido, CA 92029 Course Greens, the Chekwaa Garden and the So hurry and sign up -Twenty (20) people have most impressive Rose Garden with 400 differ- already signed up for the trip. ent varieties. The rose garden is the test site for We will meet at the gardens and flags or David Austin English roses. signs will point the way on the grounds. Bar- Why not join us and experience the ona‘s address is 1932 Wildcat Canyon Road beauty of the Gardens, for a donation of $10.00 SD 92040. January, 2010 SDES Epi News Page 8 Epi Photo Caravan Fundraiser Sunday May 23, 2010

The Epi Photo Caravan will be Vista home. They have succu- our second fundraiser this year lents, geraniums, young plumeria, and young epi for the “Memorial/ plants. They are trying something new in their Appreciation Bench” at the pool: water plants growing in floating pans. Wild Animal Park. Light refreshments of wine, cheese, soda, pretzels and a vegetable plate will be provided. SDES is celebrating, it‘s 40th Anniversary and Bring a chair if you wish to sit. we hope to have ―SDES Memorial/Appreciation Bench ―in place by the end of the year! Remem- We still need two homes down south for our ber - with your help and generosity it will be tour. Please consider opening your garden to possible! SDES Epi Lovers. No special work is required. Just smile and share your enthusiasm and love of This year our Caravan is heading south; we‘re epies. Contact Mildred Mikas at 760-690-1124 going to Chula Vista. Mark your calendars or e-mail [email protected] with questions to SUNDAY May 23rd, starting at 1:30. NOT volunteer your garden. SATURDAY. Since this is a fundraiser there will be light refreshments instead of a full meal. Sign-up sheets will be available at meetings. Remember, due to the limited space in people‘s We will be visiting Allen Pelleymounter, to see gardens, there will be a limited number of his large wonderful epi collection started by his spaces available (30). Final details will be in the mother. You will also be able to get some April & May Epi News and at meetings. Cost is cuttings for a‖ Donation to the Bench.‖ Just give $15.00 for members and $20.00 for guests. I Allen your monetary donations. suggest you sign up early. Remember there are only 30 openings! Our last stop will at newlyweds, Victoria (Lea) Chapman & George Chapman in their Chula ——Mildred

SDES Epi Shirts –Wear at Sales, Shows & Events

The time is right - to order your White SDES shirt with either a Purple or Peach Epi or Black SDES shirt with a Peach Epi bloom. The cost is $26.00 for either ladies or a man‘s shirt. Sizes Small to 3X

Join the group, show your Epi Spirit and wear your shirt at all our spring & fall sales events. Call us to order 760-690-1124 or e-mail your order to [email protected] then send us a check or pay at a meeting.

Gerry & Mildred Mikas January, 2010 SDES Epi News Page 9

The birth of San Diego Epiphyllum Society– 1970– as seen through the eyes of Bob Buchs, Chair of SDES‟s 40th Anniversary Celebration It was reported that November 23, 1970 was a cold -to-be-built shed!; (6) how many members had the and rainy day when the Epi's deciced to have a hu- same birthday or just pronounced the name of the manoid presence in San Diego and drew 42 people month the same and why?...; (7) who would be our into a room and voted for (1) best and worst named editor of the Epi News when no one even knew hybrid, (2) funniest name of hybrid and/or human- what that was...somewhere a very, very young girl oid present; (3) "volunteer of the year" although no named JillJillJill raised her hand and volunteered one had volunteered the previous year since there for something and the rest is history!; (8) would the wasn't anything to volunteer for and somebody society "profile" members and possibly prevent named Howdy Doody won!!!; (4) what would they firearms at meetings; (9) would the society allow sell cuttings of plants for to the outside world, as if deer to become members as they had expressed a you can put a price on life!!!; (5) what would they willing attitude to "volunteer" at the Wild Animal charge to just "cut" somebody for fun although one Park!; and (10) would Marj Myers be allowed to of their members a Count Epi had a more "invested continue to provide refreshments to the meetings interest"; Count Epi later was relegated to the WAP for the next 40+ years! to "count epis" and he came up with 28,423 in a yet

Honorary Life Membership Awarded to Judy Johnson

Judy Johnson was given the Honorary Life Award. This is an award that is given spar- ingly to those members who have contributed to the club in many ways over a period of time. Judy has served on the board as both a director and an officer. Her most recent position was program chairman. The last two years she has done a fabu- lous job in that role. She has spent countless hours working at sales, shows and the WAP. She has twice coordinated efforts to get the WAP clay pots made in Mexico. When a job needs to be done, the club knows they can count on Judy She has been an Above, President Sandra Chapin (left) honors Judy Johnson (right) ambassador to new members and out of town guests and mem- time, money and effort that she has dedicated to the club. She is bers. She always makes people a deserving recipient of the award. This is just a small thank feel welcome. I can't count the you for all her hard work. January, 2010 SDES Epi News Page 10

stubby and dense. The stems are succulent, never Species-Part II(Continued from page 5) fibrous, with almost indiscernible lobes. The base of even mature growth is quite setose, whereas the parts of the Mexican jungle. Being a hybrid, it has other species are setose mostly on juvenile growth. several distinct forms, which accounts for the great This group flowers in June and forms the basis for a variation of plants brought into the U.S. by the number of late-blooming hybrids, which greatly Mexican immigrants and now cultivated under that help prolong the flowering season of the Orchid name, but often confused with the wild species of Cactus. Nopalxochia ackermannii (Disocactus ackerman- nii), an entirely different plant. Kinchinjunga (E. We have long tried to hybridize with the night crenatum ssp. crenatum) (C.A. Purpus), a wild bloomers. We find they seem to cross readily among species mistakenly given a horticultural name, themselves but have yet to find one authentic belongs in this Crenatum group. This group usually instance where a successful cross has been made blooms in April and May. The stems are widely between day and night blooming Epiphyllums. lobed and succulent. The flowers are typical cups Often we believed we had succeeded only to find and saucers, with beautifully re-curved back petals that the seeds, so formed, were infertile or showed and sepals. only characteristics of the mother plant with no sign of the male parent‘s traits, thus proving our cross There seems to be no single named species in the unsuccessful. Other hybridizers have claimed to base blooming division, although there have been have made such crosses but we have not seen the several new ones found in the last few years. There evidence anywhere. Old records were seldom well is some thought that perhaps Cooperi (E. crenatum kept and it is understandable, that one might for ssp. kimnachii ‘cooperi’), and even Pfersdorffii (no instance see the setose growth of Cooperi and current synonym), are, in reality true species. Plants believe it to be a new seedling. Knebel stated he now being collected in the jungle seem to be nearly had made cereus crosses but he was speaking of his and perhaps are, identical. Heliocereus hybrids. After years of trying, we believe that it cannot be done. Their history is somewhat clouded and indistinct. Britton and Rose states that Cooperi (E. crenatum It seems that the seeds of night Epies are larger, ssp. kimnachii ‘cooperi’) is E. crenatum x Selenicer- quite rough, and shaped like small beans. Day Epies eus grandiflorus. John Rogers says that Cooperi (E. have very bright, shining seeds, nearly round. It crenatum ssp. kimnachii ‘cooperi’) is S. grandiflo- would even seem that perhaps some day the night rus x E. hookeri and one of the older German books bloomers, being so very different and incompatible gives still another history of the plant. Simon says it with their sisters, the day-bloomers, might well be is E. crenatum x S. pteranthus. Foster, in 1886, said removed from the Epiphyllum , into one of it was an English hybrid. Werdermann said it is their own. ―universally confused‖ with Pfersdorffii (no current These are but the thoughts of a strictly amateur synonym). If these should eventually prove to be ―botanist‖. Our wish is, not to confuse, but to help species, they would certainly belong in this base- clear up the big mix up of our beloved Epiphyllums. blooming section. Through habit, we have called We hope that our notes may help someone who this division the Cooperi group since it seems most follows. Often times the one who merely grows and typical. Several of the newly collected, as yet loves his plants may notice small things which a unnamed species belong here. These all have fine professional botanist would not have the opportunity fragrance with flowers which seem to sprout out of of noting for himself. Who will pick up the chal- the very soil in which they grow. Occasionally, they lenge and personally adopt our orphan Epies? will bloom higher on the stems. The plant growth is January, 2010 SDES Epi News Page 11

Welcome to our New Members!

Sandi Villavicencio Gloria Scarrow What Bloomed in January? Oceanside, CA Bonsall, CA Barb Alvarez: ‗Litega‘ Sandra Chapin: ‗Cherubim‘, ‗David Wayne‘, ‗Ernst Gündchen‘, ‗George‘s Favorite‘, ‗Innsfree‘, ‗Lola Leah‘, ‗Marmalade ‗N‘ Honey‘, ‗Naranja‘,  Mail Bag  ‗Orange Icing‘, ‗Orchid Bells‘, ‗Sugar Cane‘, ‗Tiny Flame‘ If anyone took pictures of the flower arrangements at Linda Eastman (Broadalbin, New York): the December 2009 dinner, I would sure like some. I ‗Ackermanii‘, ‗Guiding Star‘, ‗Princess Kelly S.‘ took pictures but none of them turned out. Thanks. Dick France: ‗Fair Lassie‘ Beth Jackson: ‗Harald Knebel‘ —- Marj Myers Darrell Jenkins: ‗Coral Dance‘, ‗Easter Bunny‘, ‗Fluid Orange‘, ‗Harald Knebel‘, ‗Padre‘ Helping repot plants at Kitty Johnson (Ojai, CA): ‗Epi Society‘ last month’s work party Michal McKee: „George‘s Favorite‘, ‗Gold Charm‘ at the Wild Animal Mildres & Gerry Mikas: ‗Beautie Wegener‘, ‗Bos'n Park: Hartford‘, ‗Cloudburst‘, ‗Desert Sunrise‘, ‗Ernst Left– Marie Dempe- Gündchen‘, ‗Evening Delight‘, ‗Gold Charm‘, wolf; ‗Guiding Star‘, ‗Mecca‘, ‗Ming Gold‘, ‗Professor Below– Yogi and Carol H.S. Irwin‘, ‗Rosette‘, ‗Something Special‘, LeBlanc ‗Wedding Bells‘ Jerry Moreau: ‗Christmas Elf‘, ‗Crimson Arrow‘, ‗David Wayne‘, ‗Donald Raymond‘, ‗Fred Boutin‘, ‗Happy New Year‘, ‗Mary Betty‘, ‗Professor H. S. Irwin‘, ‗Snowflake‘ (step) Pat Neal: ‗Angel Chores‘, ‗EpiCon VII‘, ‗Frühlingstraum‘, ‗Fumiko Kida‘ Don Patterson: ‗Crystal Claret‘ Allen Pellymounter: ‗Candy Apple‘, ‗Epi Society‘, ‗Harald Knebel‘, ‗Kinneloa‘, ‗Marmalade ‗n Honey‘ Pentico: ‗Fringe of Gold‘, ‗Harald Knebel‘, ‗Lollipop‘, ‗Mr. P.‘, ‗Professor H.S.Irwin‘, ‗Ruby Pinwheel‘, ‗Thai Silk‘ Linda Sinkovic: ‗Harald Knebel‘, ‗Lollipop‘, Membership: ‗Professor H.S.Irwin‘, Larry Taylor: ‗Fair Lassie‘, ‗Harald Knebel‘, ‗Wedding Bells‘ Doug & Lonie Ward: ‗Epi Society‘ (variegated) Wild Animal Park: ‗Ernst Gündchen‘, ‘Professor H. S. Irwin‘ Single Membership $15.00 per year Dual Membership $20.00 per year Epi News is published monthly. (Dual is for two people, same address, Deadline for submissions is the 15th of the month prior to one newsletter) publication. Please let Jill Rowney know of your intention to International Membership $25.00 per year submit any articles by the General Meeting so that appropriate space can be allocated. NON-PROFIT ORG. San Diego Epiphyllum Society, Inc. U.S. POSTAGE P.O. Box 126127 PAID San Diego, CA 92112-6127 SAN DIEGO, CA PERMIT NO. 2646

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SAN DIEGO EPIPHYLLUM SOCIETY San Diego Epiphyllum Society, Inc (SDES) OFFICERS P.O. Box 126127 President: Sandra Chapin San Diego, CA 92112-6127 [email protected] (858) 451-1744 Epi News is published monthly by 1st Vice President: Velma Crain San Diego Epiphyllum Society, Inc. [email protected] 619-421-4785 Editor- Jill Rowney Peck: 2nd Vice President: Jerry Moreau (209) 966-3364 [email protected] (619) 208-7654 [email protected]) Treasurer: Janice Wakefield Epi News E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] (619) 464-1086 SDES Web Site: www.SanDiegoEpi.org Recording Secretary: Jeff Hilbers Membership queries: [email protected] [email protected] Corresponding Secretary: Beth Jackson General membership meetings are held [email protected] (858) 638-0956 on the second Wednesday of each month Membership Secretary: Michal McKee at 7:30 p.m. in Room 101, [email protected] (760) 758-2389 Casa del Prado, Balboa Park Director: Ron Crain: (619) 421-4785 Director: Cindy Decker: (619) 698-6662 NEXT GENERAL MEETING: Director: Mildred Mikas: (760) 690-1124 Wednesday, February 10, 2010 Director: Linda Sinkovic: (619) 583-1172 Director: Larry Taylor: (619) 441-8517 SDES Board Meetings are held on the fourth Wednesday of each month WAP Coordinator: at 7:00 p.m. in Room 104, Jerry Moreau: [email protected] (619) 208-7654 Casa del Prado, Balboa Park. Next month it will be: Wednesday, February 24, 2010