Thank you for your diligent work Gastil. Anita Ketcham Cary, NC Zone 7 b 919-815-3209 > On Jan 1, 2020, at 2:16 PM, M Gastil-Buhl <gastil.buhl@gmail.com> wrote: > > Happy New Year Bulb Friends, > > Compiled indexes for the last eight years of bulb exchanges, as two pdf > documents, are linked at the bottom of this page: > https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/bx.html > BX 301-400 > BX 401-463 > > Some statistics of interest: > > The ten people who donated the most bulbs and seed donated half the total > amount. Even more important to the rest of you: the 147 other donors > donated half the total amount! The PBS BX depends not only on those > relative few who participate frequently and abundantly, but also on the > many of you who send in just a few items a few times. > > In BX 301 through BX 463, a total of 3841 items were offered. Of those, > 1710 unique names were listed, mostly species binomials, but often hybrids, > varieties, or other descriptors. Originally nearly 1900 names were listed > before spellings and abbreviations were conformed. The rate of variation in > spelling is itself a useful reminder to us all, myself included, but on par > with other Index Seminum. The spelling task would not have been possible > without the PBS wiki. We now have a side-by-side comparison of what species > and genera have been offered in BX that are not on the wiki, and vice versa. > > Some top ten lists as a retrospective of the last eight years of the past > decade: > These lists are in descending order, most-listed on top. > > The ten most often offered genera were: > Oxalis > Zephyranthes > Moraea > Calochortus > Hippeastrum > Lachenalia > Narcissus > Gladiolus > Habranthus > Allium > > The ten most offered as bulbs, using "bulb" in its most general sense: > Oxalis obtusa > Oxalis flava > Oxalis hirta > Oxalis bowiei > Ferraria crispa > Oxalis sp. > Oxalis purpurea > Lachenalia mutabilis > Moraea sp. > Amaryllis belladonna > > The ten most often listed species as seeds: > Zephyranthes primulina > Veltheimia bracteata > Rhodophiala bifida > Habranthus tubispathus > Moraea villosa > Clivia miniata > Zephyranthes drummondii > Zephyranthes reginae > Amaryllis belladonna > Calochortus venustus > > The ten donors who contributed the most items: > Mary Sue Ittner > Nhu Nguyen > Rimmer deVries > Ina Crossley > Roy Herold > Karl Church > Kipp McMichael > Mike Mace > Jane McGary > Fred Thorne > > These data provided query results too extensive to include here, but likely > to appear in a future newsletter article. I have not indexed the SX, only > the BX, so those summary statistics reflect that omission. > > Acknowledgements: > Nhu compiled the prior index examples and encouraged me to send this > message. Mary Sue reviewed earlier drafts with a practical perspective in > good humor. David ran his code on the wiki to provide a taxonomy spell > checker for my database, found errors, and tolerated my many revisions. All > the pbs wiki editors who themselves ensured correct taxonomic spelling for > me to use as a reference. Mostly of course these bulb exchanges depend on > the efforts of our BX directors, Dell and Albert, and most recently Jane > and her crew, our treasurer Arnold, and all you who donated bulbs and > seeds. > > I hope you find this useful, > Gastil > > Direct links to the pdf docs: > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/BX_offerings_301-400… > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/BX_offerings_401-463… > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…