New Online! The 1993 Special Edition, 67 Pages of Plant Fun and Photos From the Amateurs’ Digest blockquote { max-width: 600px !important; text-align: center !important; color: darkolivegreen; margin: 20px !important; padding: 20px !important; font-size: 15px !important; line-height: 18pt; color: #efdecd !important; background: #FEF4E4 !important; } Our featured image on
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Happy Holidays! We are Celebrating 2019-2020 with a Holiday Issue from 1995
Happy Holidays! We are Celebrating 2019-2020 with a Holiday Issue from 1995 blockquote { max-width: 600px !important; text-align: center !important; color: darkolivegreen; margin: 20px !important; padding: 20px !important; font-size: 15px !important; line-height: 18pt; color: #efdecd !important; background: #FEF4E4 !important; } Name that cactus …. Since the Holidays
New Online! Cacti & Other Succulents, Issue No. 1 from May 1989
Now, here’s a real collector’s item: Marina’s first-ever print edition of The Amateurs’ Digest under its original name, Cacti & Other Succulents. This was a toughie to scan. It took me as long to scan this 8-page first issue as it has taken me to scan some of her 40-page later issues. The challenge is due to the fact that the only copies I could get of these early issues
The Amateurs’ Digest 1994 Special Edition is Now Online!
The Amateurs’ Digest 1994 Special Edition is now online. It arrived from Terrace Horticultural Books on Tuesday, this week, the 17th of September 2019 along with 19 other issues. So my scanning homework is mounting! A “Special Edition” is the extra issue published annually after each of the 6-issue volumes of The Amateurs’ Digest had been completed. Read the 1994 Special Edition
New! The Amateurs’ Digest, Issue No. 6 of Volume 5 (March 1994) is now online!
The Amateurs’ Digest, Issue No. 6 of Volume 5 (March 1994) is now online and marks the start of year six for Marina’s print journals. That same year, Marina published her first Caudex Booklets.
New! Marina’s very first Caudex Booklet (No. 1 of 2) is now online!
Marina launched her specialty Caudex booklets in year six of her print publication, The Amateurs’ Digest. The Caudex booklets are addressed to collectors of mostly Caudex plants. Unlike TAD, that was made from printers’ plates, the Caudex booklets are photocopies of Caudex articles collected from issues of The Amateurs’ Digest to that date, then folded and saddle-stitched.
A New Journal Issue is up! Here it is: Volume 6, Issue 2, July 1994.
Click on the cover to read the issue! There’s a cartoon at page 9 of this issue with the article, “Dual Speakers: A Dual Solution” by Calvin J. Eichler. The two people shaking hands are the spitting image of Roy and Marina. God knows where they found this cartoon, but it’s a real hoot, if you knew them. If you never met them, now you know. By the way, if you