Cannabis Alchemy: The Art of Modern Hashmaking by Gold

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Every year on 5 June Jean gets out her diary and reads the twelve-page entry for that day in 1946. The day was one of celebration, not only because they were on their honeymoon but because on this day she and Frank first saw the pink L. mackliniae on the upper slopes of the mountain Sirhoi Kashong in what was then India's Manipur state: "There were thousands in flower. It was the happiest day of my life and we were in ecstasy, absolute ecstasy" (personal communication). I would certainly plant the bulbs of Lilium mackliniae in front of a lowgrowing evergreen rhododendron to allow the stately 18-in.

Chelidonii. It is frequently encountered in deciduous woodland from Kashmir eastward to southern Tibet at altitudes of 8860 to 11,800 ft. (2700-3600 m). This tall perennial often exceeds 6 ft. (2 m) high in nature, with attractive lilacpink flowers in clusters above the typically toothed foliage on branched stems. Many of the Himalayan bergenias grow in open, sunny aspects in TEMPERATE ZONE nature and would therefore be out of place in this section, but one I remember growing very happily in woodland conditions in the Munich Botanic Garden was Bergenia ligulata var.

Macrophylla along with the lovzly Aquilegia fragmns. Through the following chapters, I mention individuals from the amateur gardening sphere with a sharp eye for a good garden plant, who have made important introductions to horticulture. But does the plant hunter still have a future, and if so is it morally sound to participate in such a practice in the light of a genuine concern to preserve the world's flora in the name of conservation? My feeling is that the answer is a qualified yes. Who of us has the right to say we should not enjoy nature to the full and, where there is a genuine need, introduce to our gardens in a controlled manner new material or superior forms of a species known to be free from the endangered list?