ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR Aug 29, 2004

PLACE: Kalamazoo Valley Community College

Room 1510

6767 West O Avenue

Kalamazoo MI  49009

TIME:  2:00 PM Society Meeting

 

www.proinnovation.com/dko

 

Program

"Draculas & Masdevallias"

by

Helmut Rohrl

Meeting:

·         A newly released slide show from Orchid Digest. 

·         There will be an auction.

 

TREASURER’S REPORT:

At the end of May we had $3001.52 in the checking account.  Since then I have paid KVCC $285.60 for room rental (Jan.-May, 04) and $4.44 for postage.  We received $194.00 in the June auction and $3.68 in interest, to give us a balance in the checking account of $2909.18 on Aug.18, 2004.  Added interest of $4.04 to our savings account gives us a total of $2162.43.

 

Refreshments: 

Ginny Middleton (269) 628-4637and Joe Kanamueller (269) 375-0405

Email Address?

If you have an email address, and you are not getting the newsletter via email, please send the address to me.  It is much easier, faster and less expensive to get the email version to you!  My email address is glf@proinnovation.com

 

Officers President:  John Talpa 269 649-4340 jtcompany@bizloop.com; Treasurer: Ginnie Hessler 269 382-3824 tivth@sbcglobal.net; Secretary Greg Filter 269 -979-7626 or 269 -979-7974 gregf@proinnovation.com; Program:  Russ Hibbard  & Georgiann McWilliams call: or FAX 269 685 2268 or 269-685 1167, fax 1 269 685-6506, email,  georgiann@charter.net Refreshments:  Ginnie Hessler 269 382-3824
Web Site Address: http://www.proinnovation.com/dko

 

Of Interest

There is a five-part series on plant nutrition available on the following website:

 

http://www.firstrays.com/nutrition.htm

 

The article is written by Bill Argo, PhD of the Blackmore Company that helped create the Michigan State University fertilizers that are now commonly available.  They are .pdf files and require Adobe Acrobat Reader to open the files.  If you do not have Acrobat Reader, it is a free download at:  http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

 

John G. Talpa

President

 

Meeting dates and rooms:

The following dates and room numbers have been reserved:

1)  August 29th, 2004    Room 1510

2)  October 3rd, 2004    Room 1510

3)  November 14th, 2004    Room 1510 ß Special Date

4)  December 5th, 2004    Room 1510

5)  January 9th, 2005    Room 4380

6)  February 6th, 2005    Room 1510

7)  March 6th, 2005    Room 1510

8)  April 3rd, 2005    Room 4380

9)  May 1st, 2005    Room 1510

The dates and room numbers are subject to change by KVCC.  Any changes will

be given to you as soon as I am aware of them.

John G. Talpa

 

 

DUNES-KALAMAZOO ORCHID SOCIETY -- LIBRARY CONTENTS

1.            Scrapbook from late 1970s

2.            Constitution & By-Laws

3.            Meeting Announcements from

            19881990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998

4.         Misc. Slides

5.         Mid-America Orchid Congress, cassette tape

            Phalaenopsis, John Moses

6.         VHS "The Many Worlds of Orchids"

            AOS 1987

7.         VHS  "An Introduction to Orchids"

            AOS

8.         VHS  "Prize Winning Secrets of Professional Growers"

9.         Field Guide to Orchids of North America

            Williams & Williams   1983  (2 copies)

10.            Eastern Deceduous Forest

            Korling-Perry   1980

11.       Guide to Orchids of North America

            Petrie   1981

12.            Handbood of Orchid Photography

            Seibels & Fitch   AOS  1985

13.            Handbook on Orchid Culture

            AOS

14.            Bromeliads for Modern Living   1977

15.            Orchidaceae.  The Orchid Family -- A guide to

            pronunciations and meanings of botanical names

16.            Orchids of Peru   1961

17.            American Orchid Culture

            White   1927

18.       An Orchidist's Glossary

            AOS   1974

19.            Sander's List of Orchid Hybrids

            1961 - 1963,  1964 - 1966

20.       Slipper Orchids Breeding & Cultivating

            Paphiopedilum Hybirds            Koopowitz & Hasegawa

21.            Orquideas de Colombia  1976

22.       Flora of Malaya  Volume 1 Orchids

            Hol Hum  1964

23.            Pictorial Orchuid Growing

            Blowers  1971

24.       Upland Kenya Wild Flowers

            Agnew   1974

25.            Orchids of the Western Great Lakes Region

            Case   1964

26.       The Orchid Growers Manual  7th Ed.

            Williams & Williams   1964

27.            Australian Indigenous Orchids

            Dockrill  1969

28.       Las Orquideas de el Salvador   Volumes I & II

            Hamer   1974

29.            Orchids of Papua New Guinea

            Miller  1978

30.            Southern Africian Epyphytic Orchids

            Ball  1978

31.       The Brazilian Bifoliate Cattlyas & Their

            Color Varieties   1977

32.            Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated   Volumes 1 - 6

            Dumsterille & Gray

33.            Orchids -- Wonders of Nature

            Kijima   1988

34.            Culture of the Phalaenopsis Orchid

            Gordon   1985

35.       The Genus Phalaenopsis - The Orchid Digest,

            Orchids of the World  Volume 1

            Sweet   1980  (2 copies)

36.            Orchids of Western Australia

            George & Foote

37.       The Biology of Orchids

            Dodson & Gillespie   1967

38.       Native Orchids of North America (North of Mexico)

            DS Correll   1978

39.       The Orchids of Burma

            B Grant   1966

40.       Rare Orchids Everyone can Grow

            J Kramer  1968

41.            Orchids of East Africa

            F Piers   1984   (2 copies)

42.       Native Orchids of Taiwan

            H-J Su   1975

43.            Orchids of Tropical Africa

            J. Stewart & R Campbell  1970

44.            Orchids of Peru   Volume 30  No.  1, 2, 3

            C Schiwemfurth   1958

45.       Flore De Madagascar - Orchudees  Tome 1, 2

            Humbert   1939

46.            Mannual of Orchidaceous Plants  Volume I, II

            Vertch  1963

47.       AOS Bulletin  Volume 38  1969

48.            Orchids - Their Botany & Culture

            AD Hawkes   1961

49.       Flora of the Lesser Antilles - Orchidaceae

            RA Howard  1979

50.            Orchids of Southern Ryukyu Islands

            Garay & Sweet  1974

51.            Orchids & How to Grow Them

            GJ Sessler  1978

52.            Orchids for Home & Garden

            TA Fennell   1963

53.            Orchids as House Plants

            RT Nothern   1955