Thanks for the reminder, Dell, about the calendar-year based membership. I'm mailing my renewal check to Jane McGary tomorrow. I'm also mailing a check for my small outstanding PBS-BX balance to Arnold Trachtenberg tomorrow. I hope everyone else remembers to do the same. Happy Holidays, everybody! Dennis in Cincinnati P.S. To renew your membership electronically, http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/membership.html On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 7:41 AM, ds429 <ds429@frontier.com> wrote: > Dear All, > > The busy season for the PBS BX is winding down. It has been, once again, > much more active and successful than in any previous season. Thank you, to > the donors and to the members who ordered! > > I hope that you will remember to renew your memberships which end at the > New Year, so that you can continue to share in the wealth that the BX > offers to members. > > Some reminders: > > Read the introductory message that prefaces each BX offering, sometimes > there are important changes. > > Donors, please remember that you should only send clean seeds and bulbs. > That means, no chaff or hulls or flesh on seeds, and no soil on bulbs. Of > course, meticulous sanitary caution is important, as well, to guard against > disease and pests. Carelessness in this area can destroy plant collections! > > And when you donate your materials, please be sure to label them in clear > print or handwriting and label them accurately. (My skill with > hieroglyphics is not as good as it was when my eyes were better.) > > The paperwork to send seeds to Australia and New Zealand has become > prohibitively time-consuming (the laws haven’t changed; the size of orders > has). I will send out new requirements for placing BX orders for members in > those countries in the near future. > > Best wishes for the upcoming holiday season ! > > Dell > > Dell Sherk, PBS BX > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/