Dear All: Zip Codes exist for the entire country. Why the Hardiness Zones can not be tied into the Zip Codes I do not know. Then instead of a map with so many mistakes, difficulty in knowing just where one zone ends and another begins, we will have a very fine and detailed listing, in book form. I have long proposed such be accomplished but nothing happens. With such large scale maps it is impossible to see where exactly zones are. Cheers, John E. Bryan Tony Avent wrote: > > Pat: > > I was at a meeting last month with the Asst. Director for USDA-ARS > (Agricultural Research Service). I chided them about the absurb way in > which the new hardiness map was being ruined (i.e. omitting 20 years of > data and deleting 50% of the temperate zones). The Asst. Director was > furious upon hearing this and went on to explain that they had only funded > the project, which was to be completed by AHS (American Horticulture > Society). As many of us already knew, this was only a publicity stunt by a > former director of AHS. I view this fiasco as one of the greatest > disasters in American horticulture...just ahead of the ridiculous heat zone > map that was also publiched by AHS. Wilmington NC would now in the same > zone as Washington DC. If anything should have been changed, it should > have been to double the number of zones. I guess us nurserymen should be > happy as we will certainly be selling more plants to the wrong zones and > having many more plants to die due to this poor zone information. > > Our contact at USDA-ARS assured me that any copies of the new map would be > labeled as "working copies". USDA will be working to try and get this > ridiculous new map corrected. I hope this helps shed some light on the new > map. Everyone who agrees should email the American Horticulture Society > and demand that this project be halted immediately. > > At 09:50 AM 6/2/2003 -0400, you wrote: > >I thinkk the new maps need a redoing. The Carolinas are a mess the old map > >was better. > > > >Pat > > > >_______________________________________________ > >pbs mailing list > >pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > >http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > > Tony Avent > Plant Delights Nursery @ > Juniper Level Botanic Garden > 9241 Sauls Road > Raleigh, NC 27603 USA > Minimum Winter Temps 0-5 F > Maximum Summer Temps 95-105F > USDA Hardiness Zone 7b > email tony@plantdelights.com > website http://www.plantdel.com/ > phone 919 772-4794 > fax 919 772-4752 > "I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself...at least > three times" - Avent > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php