ORDERING INSTRUCTIONS

 

1.      CONTRIBUTORS orders will be filled first.  If ordering from our web site: in the subject box, type “Contributor order”; if ordering by mail, indicate “Contributor” on the envelope.  Doing so will allow us to easily create a fair distribution “pool” balancing the email with mail from Asia,  Europe, west and east US coasts etc.

 

2.      Seed Exchange Catalog purchases from this 2012 catalog is open only to ARS members after January 1st  until April 1st 2011.  Orders from the general public will be accepted after April 1st.

 

3.      The electronic version of the catalog can be viewed at www.rhododendron.org/seedexchange.htm and/or www.rhododendron.dk/ARS_seed.htm . Please check one of these web sites for information about late arriving seed listings.

 

 

4.      TO PLACE YOUR ORDER

A.    You may select one packet of as many seed lots as you desire. Quantity of seed per packet (usually 75-200 seed) is a function of the amount of seed received from each donor.

B.    Please use the space provided on the order form to list alternatives to your first choice selections.

C.    ARS members need not send payment with order.  If paying by credit card, we will bill your credit card through PayPal when your order is shipped.  If paying by check, send payment upon receipt of your seed shipment. 

D.    Please use the order blank provided. Fill out this form in numeric order of seed lot number.

 

5.    ARS  MEMBER’S ORDERS FROM OUTSIDE THE U.S.A.

Danish chapter members: if you pay your treasurer, please check “Bill Danish Chapter” on your order form. 

All Other International members should pay by PayPal or money order in US dollars.  Contact the Seed Exchange Chairman if other payment arrangements are needed.

 

6.    Seed Packet charge is $3.00 (plus $3 US and $4 International Shipping and Handling). There is a premium charge, $4.00 per pkg., for all seed collection from the fall Nielsen 2011 China collection trip. These seed are listed in a separate section.

 

7.    Mail Orders should be addresses to:

                        ARS Seed Exchange

                        Norman Beaudry, Chairman

                        7921 Deepwell Drive

                        Bethesda, MD 20817 USA

Or you may submit your order either by email to ARSseed@gmail.com or electronically at the ARS and Danish web sites.

 

Notes:

1.    Photo references etc.,  relevant to the internet catalog have been removed from this hard copy listing.  Photos of many of the hybrids and species listed in this hard copy catalog can be viewed at either www.hirsutum.info  or at the ARS web site www.rhododendron.org.

                  Every effort has been made to avoid spelling errors; species are listed by the name supplied by the contributor and thus may vary from the 2010 classification system.  Not all hybrid names are registered or found in other reference works.

 

2.    We would like to thank all the seed contributors for who have made this exchange possible.   Also we thank our volunteers Potomac Valley Chapter volunteers: Ginger and Sam Burd, Jean Beaudry for their hours spent cleaning, packaging and cataloging this 2012 listing;  to Bob Weissman, ARS webmaster and Hans Eiberg, Danish webmaster for on-line catalog versions; to  Carol Segree for editing and printing the hard copy version of the catalog and to  proof readers, Werner Brack and Bob Weissman who read and corrected my typos and entry errors. 

 

3.    Hard Copy Catalogs will be mailed to 2012 contributors without access to email and the electronic copy of the catalog and to ARS members requesting a copy.

 

4.    The Pollen-to-Seed Program.  To encourance participation in the seed exchange program,  and to make available quality pollen, seed contributors are entitled request up to $50. in species pollen each year from the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden.  A listing of pollen is available on line at http://www.rhodygarden.org/catalogs.html.  or it may be requested  by mail  at  RSBG,  PO Box 3798, Federal Way, WA  98063. To participate,  we ask you to submit your order and identify yourself as an ARS seed contributor and the RSBG will mail pollen directed to you and then bill the Seed Exchange.