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BromeliAdvisory February 2011 BSSF Officers 2011 FEBRUARY 1 2011, 7:30 PM WEBPAGE: Speaker: Nat DeLeon “"TIPS ON GROWING http://www.bssf-miami.org/ BETTER BROMELIADS – Pups and Suckers" RAFFLE TABLE: Alan Herndon President Carl Bauer FOOD TABLE: Ofelia Sorzano, Joy Parrish, Joan VP: Barbara Partagas Manley, Chieng Manlee, Jaqueline Gaudio Treasurer: Alan Herndon Secretary: Lori Weyrick _________________ Speaker for the Month: DIRECTORS This speaker is a major name and well known name – both Past Pres.: Robert Meyer inside and outside our community. Accolades are too Directors: voluminous to recite. But this Nat DeLeon ‘10-‘11 story tells so much: In 1959, Rhonda Herndon ‘10-‘11 several bromeliad growers in Dade County decided to form a Sandy Roth ‘11-‘12 local society devoted to the Craig Morrell ‘11-‘12 study of bromeliads and to seek affiliation with the still young Bromeliad Society, Inc. (now Bromeliad Society International Editor or BSI). Nat served as President Robert C Meyer of the Temporary Board and the first President of the Bromeliad Society of South Florida (BSSF) for the period May 1960- May 1961. Once BSSF was awarded affiliate status with BSI, Nat was made, as was Door Prize: Alan Herndon customary at the time, an Honorary Vice President and Education: Nat DeLeon Director of BSI. Hospitality: Elaine Mills Library: Ofelia Sorzano Inside this edition: Membership: Moyna Prince PRESIDENT’S LETTER .............................. 2 Member Plant Sales: Antonio NOTICE OF AMENDMENT ............................ 2 Arbelaez IN CASE YOU MISSED IT .......................... 2-3 Raffle: Mike Michalski BSSF SHOW – A CALL ........................... 3-4 Refreshments: Patty Gonzalez GARDEN NOTES ................................ 4-6 MURDER IN CORBIN A ............................ 6-7 PROXY ......................................... 8 What Who MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL FORM ....................... 9 Sales Antonio Arbelaez Table BromeliAdvisory Page 2 President's Letter previous meeting or by the Board in case of emergency. In such cases, the members will be At our Board Meeting, your officers decided to notified as soon as possible. ask for your approval to move BSSF monthly meetings to the Third Tuesday of the month at AMENDED TO: Fairchild Garden. Section 1. Regular meetings of the Society shall According to our Rules and By-laws, this will beheld on the first Tuesday of each month – or require two votes. On February 1, we are asking any other date determined appropriate by the to move the March meeting to the fifteenth of membership – at Fairchild Tropical Garden, March. [7:30 PM @ Corbin A] At that meeting 10901 Old Cutler Road, Miami, Florida or at we will vote to continue to meet on the third any other place determined appropriate by the Tuesday of each month going forward. membership – upon vote and approval – after one month’s notice in substantial conformity Hopefully, this will allow us to meet on a with the procedures outlined in ARTICLE VII . desirable night and assure available, safe Such meeting times and locations may be parking. changed by a majority vote of the membership On a different topic, we are asking those present at the previous meeting or by the Board members who are supplying our delicious food in case of emergency. In such cases, the at meetings to be part of a "Cleanup Crew" after members will be notified as soon as possible. that meeting. This will share the work of loading up and exiting the meeting room. This is a 30 day notice which will be voted upon at the MARCH 2011 meeting. Our Bromeliad Show Chairs have met and preparations are underway for another great event. Please get involved. There is room for PROXY every member to make a meaningful and enjoyable contribution. You will also learn a lot! If you cannot appear at the meeting for the vote, please fill out the proxy attached to the end of the Looking forward to our meeting on February 1. advisory, tender to the party named as your Call me or e-mail if you have any questions. proxy, or e-mail a scanned copy to your designate. You can e-mail proxy to Barbara Carl Bauer Partagas: [email protected] In Case You Missed It NOTICE OF by Robert Meyer AMENDMENT TO BY-LAWS: TERRY BERT came to alphabetically lead us through the middle of the bromeliad lexicon – “Here’s This Notice is being given in compliance with Looking at More Novel Bromeliad Genera”, a ARTICLE VII of the Bylaws – and will be thematic review of the genuses or genera which start subjected to vote at the October 2010 meeting. with the letters H, L, M and N. PROVISION AS IT READS NOW: H, in a quasi-Sesame Street concept, stands for Hechtia, Hohengergia, and Hohenbergliopsis; L ARTICLE VI. MEETINGS stands for Lindmania and Lymania; M stands for Section 1. Regular meetings of the Society shall Mezobromelia; and, N stands for Navia, beheld on the first Tuesday of each month at Neoglaziovia and Nidularium. Wisely, she shied Fairchild Tropical Garden, 10901 Old Cutler away from Neoregelia. Road, Miami, Florida or at any other place determined appropriate by the membership – Amid the lightening-speed delivery, we learned that upon vote and approval – after one month’s a great number of the plants are namesakes of discoverers or royalty or wealth which provided the notice in substantial conformity with the capital for the venturing crews who discovered the procedures outlined in ARTICLE VII . Such tropical flora. A list of many namesakes is in the list meeting times and locations may be changed by below together with the number of species for the a majority vote of the membership present at the topic’s genera: BromeliAdvisory Page 3 Nidularium, a commonly seen plant in our venue, Name/Namesake Species can be boiled down and become a holistic anti- Hechtia 50 inflammatory medication. Maybe could be used Julius Gottfried Conrad Hecht after climbing the cliffs for the Navia. Hohenbergia 60 Promising a new concepts for discussion coming Prince of Württemburg, German patron of botany known as Hohenberg this fall, Dr. Bert may arrive again to deliver another fascinating lecture. Hohenbergiopsis 1 Hohenbergia + opsis (Greek for resembling) BSSF Annual Show Lindmania 42 - a Call for Volunteers Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (1856-1928) by Alan Herndon Lymania 8 Lyman Bradford Smith (1904-1997) There are only two and a half months before the Mezobromelia 9 2011 version of the BSSF Annual Show and Sale Carl Christian Mez (1866-1944) takes place. In addition to preparing your plants for entry in the judged show, I hope you will also Navia 96 consider volunteering your time to help during the Bernard Sebastian von Nau show. A few hours would help us greatly. Details Neoglaziovia 3 on some activities that generally need volunteers are August von Regel (1815-1892) given below. Nidularium 49 Staging, Classification, Data Entry, and Placement nidus (nest) + arius (pertaining to) are all active on Thursday. Staging is generally completed in the morning. Classification starts Some interesting lessons learned were the concepts around noon and ends around seven in the evening. and growing patterns for each. Hechtia uniquities Data Entry can start as soon as the first groups of include it being defined as a false agave. And, this plants pass through Classification. Placement species is the only species with separate sexes. usually starts in mid afternoon and runs until all plants have been tagged and put in their proper place Hohenbergiopsis has the lonely claim of having but (often well after eight in the evening.) Staging is one species in the genus. simply the physical placement of tables and other fixtures in the show room. Typing skills help with Lindmania is a very well organized species as its Data Entry, but no detailed knowledge of namesake was a talented and energetic draftsman bromeliads is needed. Placement involves setting whose pictures delivered accurate renditions of the show entries on tables (or on the floor, or in racks) taxonomy to the public, while science labs of the in an arrangement that makes the plants easy to taxonomists review pressed, colorless, limp and locate, but also shows off each plant to best shapeless masses of seemingly worthless fodder for advantage. compost. ELIZABETH (BETSY) MCQUALE will be in charge of Lymania is a totally epiphytic plant which lies in the the Members Sales Table. This is a space where depths of cavernous darkness fo the thickly wooded members may sell some of the extra plants from jungle, and manages to absorb sun through globasa their gardens. Please remember that this show is our and delivers undulating corona in the very difficult primary opportunity to instill the desire for growing conditions. bromeliads in an unconvinced public. If you are going to sell plants at the Members Table, sell plants Mezobromelia may be a foreign word and species of the highest quality _ plants you would want to because of its desire for cool temperature – a trait buy yourself. If you are selling plants, you should making is apt for California. plan on spending as much time as it takes to sell all of your plants. After all, noone else is as likely to Navia and its fondness for growing on the severely convince a potential customer to buy your particular pitched and steeply inclined walls of South plant. Also, please remember that space for America’s tepui make it difficult to harvest or even Members Sales is limited. If many members wish to see at close range. sell at the Members Sales Table, we may have to limit the number of plants brought in by each person Neoglaziovia , a lover of dry and warm climates, on Saturday. Of course, you are welcome to bring delivers it to the pragmatic hanging basket where rot new plants on Sunday to replace those you sold on and over-welcomed humidity can be lessened.