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.