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General Subjects => The Archibald Archive => Topic started by: Maggi Young on August 07, 2012, 01:42:12 PM
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Two new items have been added to the archive today,7th August:
One is the first draft of Jim's first article written for the SRGC Journal - written in longhand at the age of seventeen!
The second is an article written before 1964, illustrated with Jim's own drawings.
Please Note this carefully:
Archibald Master list:
https://www.srgc.net/filessub/archibald/seedlists/JJA_seedlist_master_SRGC.pdf
N. B. added later :
If you are following old SRGC site without https these will not work - you can find all up to date links from https://www.srgc.net and the Archibald archives from https://www.srgc.net/add-archibald-intro.asp
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Fascinating stuff. A very mature writer for a 17 year old.
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Great stuff. Keep it up!
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I've just been reading Jim's piece ‘Some Plants of the Atlas Mountains’, an account of his 1962 expedition. To my surprise he makes no mention of the famous collection near Ifrane of Narcissus romieuxii JCA 805 (Indeed there is no mention of any bulbous plants).Did Jim ever write about this collection? If so, does anyone know where?
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I have before me a copy of "Principal Collections of Seeds, Bulbs, Corms and Rhizomes, 1966" -
Under 'Morocco' is listed " 805. Narcissus bulbocdium ?ssp.romieuxii "
In the fullness of time we will have many of Jim's fieldnotes in the archive.
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Thanks Maggi. I'll try to be patient.
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Hi Maggi,
I have just literally stumbled across these pages. What a treat! What a feast! What a stash!
Bravo and hurrah!!!
Marcus
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Great stuff. Keep it up!
Hi Gerry
JCA 805, specifically JCA 805a out of which was born 'Julia Jane' and other cultivars was collected on Jim's 1966 marathon trip to Iran via Morocco, not the 1962 trip. I have a lot of Jim's material and field notes which, as Maggi said, we will be slowly publishing to the archive as and when I tidy them up. I hope to have a seed list master list ready to publish any day soon. If Maggi and her boffins can work out how to do it we will link seed list numbers to photo's of the actual plant as grown by members who send in their photographs. Thus, over time we can achieve a fitting tribute to Jim and his contributions to botany and horticulture.
David
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Hi David
Thanks for this info. The only date given in the JJA list is 1962 hence my confusion. Though Jim does say "first collected in 1962" which I had not really taken in.
Thanks David for all your work on this great project &, of course, thanks to Maggi.
Gerry
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Many thanks for the work you are doing David. I agree, it will be a fitting tribute to a great plantsman.
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Great work David, I, like many others, have enjoyed many fruits of Jim's labour. He opened many doors and and many eyes.
A fitting and worthy tribute to a great man.
Cheers, Marcus
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Just added to the Archibald Archive: Notes by Jim on the most popular plants in the seedlists -
Jim & Jenny Archibald - at the cutting edge of horticulture
Find all of the Archibald Archive via
https://www.srgc.net/add-archibald-intro.asp
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Hats off! Absolutely brilliant!
Cheers, Marcus
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Thanks David and Maggi for your invaluable researche - I have kept many seedlists but there are some gaps - so now I can revisit those missing years .
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This gets better & better! David & Maggi deserve medals.
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Just added: the "Treasures of Turkey" articles from the American Magazine "Horticulture" in 2005.
"Horticulture" - which has an online presence at www.hortmag.com (http://www.hortmag.com) - agreed to the SRGC use of the articles in the form printed originally. The publishers were kind enough to compliment the SRGC on this project; their representative saying it was a "lovely endeavor to honor your friend".
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Thanks David and Maggi for your invaluable researche - I have kept many seedlists but there are some gaps - so now I can revisit those missing years .
Hello Otto
Seems a long time since I visited you in the Dandenongs.
More of Jim is yet to come. Keep reading.
David
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Field Notes from the first trip to Corsica, 28th March to 11April 1962, added
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I'm gradually ploughing my way through Jim's old seed lists (many thanks to David Stephen's for his hard editorial graft) and if you haven't had a read of some of them yet you should, they really are a treat and particularly some of Jim's pithy Introductions. A good case here in the Summer 1991 edition where Jim, under the heading 'Post Mortem', waxes elequently about the organisation and cost of the 1991 6th International Rock Garden Conference.
The words 'leopard' 'changes' and 'spots' did spring to my mind!
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Today, As well as the Master Seedlist update, with added photos, there is also an addition to the "twin" articles
of Jim's piece 'Inshriach in late summer and autumn', the first draft of the article that was to appear in the SRGC journal as 'Autumn Concerto' in the form of a letter from Jack Drake, owner of Inshriach, responding to the draft piece and raising some small points. :)
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The letter from Jack Drake to Jim shows an affectionate master/pupil relationship, and how much Jim must have learnt from working at Inshriach. It highlights even more the great role that specialist alpine nurseries have played in the past and the way that knowledge can be passed on from individual to individual. Jim wrote about Jack Drake as one of his heros in March 1998 (Drake's sunset), and someone who knows and grows plants very well seems like a good hero to have.
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More photos have arrived today - they have now been loaded to the Master seedlist.
Photos on the list are from Jim and Jenny's own website pictures; sourced from various threads in the forum, and many that have been specially contributed.
Among those who have sent or posted photos for the Archibald Archive are : (in no particular order than from my memory (!))
Michael J. Cambell, Doreen Mear, Gerry Webster, Lesley Cox, Tim Ingram, Hans Joschko, Rimmer de Vries, Luc Scheldeman, Brian Ellis, Viv Condon, David Nicholson, Tony Willis, Rafa Diez Dominguez, Darren Sleep, Gerhard Raschun, Simon Silcock, John Weagle, David Pilling, Luc Gilgemyn, Aaron Floden, John Forrest, Rob Convery, Janis Ruksans, Roma Fiddes, Hans Achilles, Zdenek Rehacek, Igor Herminarik, Hendrik van Bogaert, Peter Taggart, Tom Cameron, Ashley Allshire, Lola Horowitz, Gail Harland, David Hoare, Alex Jeans, Melvyn Jope, Mark Griffiths .......... cannot be sure I've got everyone here, but many thanks to you all. Keep sending your photos, please :)
or, post them here : https://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=9360.0
Thank you!
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Added today :
Field Notes: Trip 2 Morocco 4th July - 20th August 1962 JCA74 – 301
Archibald Plants and Botanic Gardens
The University of British Columbia Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research was established in 1916 and is the oldest continuously operating University based botanical garden in Canada.
The SRGC is most grateful to Staff from UBC, particularly Daniel Mosquin and Eric La Fountaine, for their assistance in providing information on the Archibald Accessions to the UBC collection for the Archibald Archive.
Please Note this carefully:
Archibald Master list:
https://www.srgc.net/filessub/archibald/seedlists/JJA_seedlist_master_SRGC.pdf
N. B. added later :
If you are following old SRGC site without https these will not work - you can find all up to date links from https://www.srgc.net and the Archibald archives from https://www.srgc.net/add-archibald-intro.asp
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Just stumbled accross this thread !
What an awesome treat !!
Thanks very much for all the effort put into this !
It will provide some great reading during the Autumn and Winter evenings ahead of us ! :D
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Field Notes for Trip 3 Macedonia 22nd July - 25th August 1964 JCA302 - 770 added.
Please Note this carefully:
Archibald Master list:
https://www.srgc.net/filessub/archibald/seedlists/JJA_seedlist_master_SRGC.pdf
N. B. added later :
If you are following old SRGC site without https these will not work - you can find all up to date links from https://www.srgc.net and the Archibald archives from https://www.srgc.net/add-archibald-intro.asp
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An update has been made to the Master Seedlist- including some additonal information about various Fritillaria collections from Laurence Hill and links to information in the Fritillaria Icones website:www.fritillariaicones.com
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Field Notes for Trip No. 6 Spain 29th May - 12th June 1970 JCA3400 - 3575 added to archive
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https://www.srgc.net/add-archibald-intro.asp
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Updated list of Expeditions,Trips and numbers added.
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Fieldnotes for Trip 8 Colombia 7th January - 28th January 1978 JCA4000 – 4099 added
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What an extremely fascinating thread this is !
As a more or less novice in the field of bulbs I feel like I´m set out on a tour of great Discovery
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Photos of plants grown from JJA seed, some without definite list numbers, including pictures of plants from the Caerleon AGS Show of 2010, Jim’s last show.
https://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=9360.0
Plus Master Seedlist Latest update 28th August 2012
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Added today:
Fieldnotes : Trip 9 Yugoslavia 22nd March - 1st April 1979 JCA4100 - 4161
Trip 11 Morocco 25th April - 7th May 1982 JCA4300 – 4704 also ABS4300 - 4704
This trip was undertaken in the company of John Blanchard and Michael Salmon. The field numbers can be used with both JCA and ABS prefixes.
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Do you have photos of Archibald plants that you would like to contribute to the Archibald Archive but which are in slide form?
If so, you can send them to David Stephens who will convert them to digital for you.
Contact info@srg.org.uk to arrange this. :)
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Newly added to the archive: 'Raiser unknown: Eric Smith, a plantsman'
In this article, originally published by the Hardy Plant Society in 2000, Jim writes of some of the plants raised and named by Eric Smith and by himself.
Jim's text is illustrated here with photos added of a selection of those plants.
Kind thanks to all who have allowed the use of their photographs. 8) :-*
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Just added :
‘Euphorbia niciciana’ from the Journal of the RHS 1971 (May):232-234 This article presented with the kind permission of the RHS and the assistance of Brian Mathew.
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Just added :
An update to the Master list of seed collections with the addition of several dozen new photos of JJA plants from Jane McGary
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Just added to writings-of-jim-archibald :
a scan of Jim Archibald's chapter, "Hellebores at Buckshaw 1964-1983" from ‘The Gardener’s Guide to Growing Hellebores’ by Graham Rice & Elizabeth Strangman, published by David & Charles/ Timber Press (1993)
Thanks to FW Media ad David and Charles for their permission to use this layout from the book.
"Hellebores at Buckshaw 1964-1983"
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Just added to Archibald Plants and Botanic Gardens
Archibald living Accessions - RBGE
Alan Elliott has kindly done the research to provide a record of all Archibald accessions, those living now and of databased photographs and these can now be downloaded from this page :
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We are grateful to Alan for his help.
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Thank you Maggi, David, Alan and all those contributing to this wonderful resource. It exemplifies the unique value of online, dynamic reference material.
It brings me back again and again.
So well done all. It is a splendid tribute to Jim and Jenny's work over many years.
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Those who have been interested to see the linked areas from the Archibald Archive to the date collection section of the RBGE may be interested in this comment from Dr Elspeth Haston on herbarium listing methods :
http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/1283 (http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/1283)
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Just added to the Archibald Archive:
A list of Archibald plants in the collection of the Denver Botanic Garden (http://www.botanicgardens.org/)
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Added September 2013 : David Glenn of Lambley Nursery in Victoria, Australia has recently penned this little article on his garden notes blog about the Archibalds (http://lambley.com.au/garden-notes/jim-and-jenny-Archibald) with reference to some of their collections of successful perennials: Jim and Jenny Archibald
Thanks to Marcus Harvey for providing this information.
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A new set of Field Notes (https://www.srgc.net/add-archibald-fieldnotes.asp) just added to the Archibald Archive - thanks to David Stephens
Trip No 17 USA 18th June - 24th September 1987 JCA8500 - 9696 - now unavailable online.
This was Jim's first visit to the USA: Wyoming / Utah / Colorado / New Mexico / Arizona / Utah / Nevada.The field notes are handwritten.
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David Stephens has just sent through two additions to the Archibald Archives . now loaded to this page for fieldnotes
Trip 2 Morocco 4th July - 20th August 1962 is already listed as typed notes but now the original handwritten notes are also added :
https://www.srgc.net/filessub/archibald/fieldnotes/2JCAFieldnotesMorocco_SRGCArchive.pdf
Trip No 24 USA California-Oregon -Nevada 20th May - 12th July 1992
with collections JCA12700 – 13290 :
https://www.srgc.net/filessub/archibald/fieldnotes/JCAtrip24USA1992.pdf
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Two more sets of fieldnotes from Archibald trips sent by David Stephens :
Trip 30. JCA15500 - 15880 South Africa 12th March - 28th March 1996 (https://www.srgc.net/filessub/archibald/fieldnotes/30JCASAfrica1996.pdf)This trip was taken with Panayoti Kelaidis
Trip 44 Georgia 26th April - 5th May 2010 JCA19700 - 19780[/b] (https://www.srgc.net/filessub/archibald/fieldnotes/44JCAGeorgia2010.pdf[b) Jim's last trip.
See other field notes here (https://www.srgc.net/add-archibald-fieldnotes.asp) in the Archibald Archive.
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David has sent through another set of fieldnotes - this time from a 1993 trip to USA.
Trip No 25 USA 2nd June - 27th June 1993 JCA13291 – 13609 (https://www.srgc.net/add-archibald-fieldnotes.asp)
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Today's set of JCA field notes sent through by David Stephens is :
Trip No 31 Greece 5th June - 12th June 1996 JCA15900 – 16018 with Robert Rolfe & Norman Stevens
(https://www.srgc.net/add-archibald-fieldnotes.asp)
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Jim Archibald remembered
How pleasing to see Jim Archibald remembered in Robert Rolfe's article in the latest AGS bulletin. The 'Archibald Archive' on the is a standing reminder of the Archibalds' contribution to the world of plants and the esteem in which he and Jenny are held. Additions are still being made of Jim's field notes to the archive but there is already a wealth of information there.
We can only hope that Robert's article can be added to the Archive in due course.
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Just added to the Archive from David Stephens -
the field notes from Trip No 33 New Zealand 5th February - 12th February 2000 JCA16600 – 16649
Click HERE (https://www.srgc.net/additionalpages.asp?addpagename=archibald-fieldnotes)
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A new section has been added to the Archibald Archive .
‘The Plantsmen’ Era 1967 -1975 (https://www.srgc.net/additionalpages.asp?addpagename=archibald-plantsmen)
During the years 1967 to 1975 Jim, along with Eric Smith, ran ‘The Plantsmen’: this was a small specialist nursery located in the grounds of a large country house.
A wide range of choice and desirable plants was offered. Eric Smith, who had been an expert propagator with Hilliers, carried on hybridization work with Hosta, Helleborus and other perennials.
Jim and Eric were truly plantsmen of the highest order, but not great businessmen, the nursery often suffering setbacks. Eric Smith retired from the nursery in 1975 and Jim carried on the business in his own name after that.
Appended to this new section in the main site will be all the catalogues, plant lists, seed lists and newsletters we have managed to find that were issued by ‘The Plantsmen.
The first list added is : The Plantsmen – Plant list 1967 -1968 (https://www.srgc.net/filessub/archibald/Plantsmen/ThePlantsmen_list1967-1968.pdf)
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The Plantsmen – Oncocyclus, Regelia & Regelio-Cyclus Irises 1968 [/b] (https://www.srgc.net/filessub/archibald/Plantsmen/Oncocyclus_Regelia_Regelio-Cyclus_Irises.pdf)
Jim had a lifelong passion for Onco irises. At the time he had probably seen and collected seed of more of these plants than anyone before and maybe since. This catalogue of plants sometimes available from the nursery is staggering. Never before or since has such a range of these irises been available from one nursery.
Click HERE (https://www.srgc.net/filessub/archibald/Plantsmen/Oncocyclus_Regelia_Regelio-Cyclus_Irises.pdf)
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Latest set of Field Notes added to the archive :
Trip No 34 Iran 22nd May - 9th June 2000 JCA16700 – 17010 with Norman Stevens & Bob Wallis Click HERE (https://www.srgc.net/additionalpages.asp?addpagename=archibald-fieldnotes)
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Just added :
Trip No 35 USA 15th September - 25th September 2000 JCA17020 –17117
added 23/03/15 Click HERE (https://www.srgc.net/additionalpages.asp?addpagename=archibald-fieldnotes)
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It's always good to know that Jim Archibald's influence is felt across the plant world - this quote (http://plinthetal.com/2015/04/01/5-10-5-peter-zale-curator-of-plants-and-plant-breeder-at-longwood-gardens/) is from
Peter Zale, newly appointed Curator of Plants and Plant Breeder at the famous Longwood Gardens (http://longwoodgardens.org/) in Pennsylvania, USA
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"Four individuals that have vastly inspired my career are Jim Archibald, Edgar T. Wherry, Mary Gibson Henry, and my friend Dr. Warren Stoutamire. I will never forget the first Archibald seed list I ever received. It was a revelation. Although I had been earlier influenced by Dan Hinkley’s collecting forays into southeast Asia, Jim Archibald’s work was concentrated primarily in eastern Turkey and Iran. Collecting in those regions had never crossed my mind and the seed lists opened up the flora of an entire region to me. Traveling to and collecting in Iran is still one of my life goals."
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Photos continue to be added to the Archibald plant photos thread in the forum:
https://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=9360.0
It is great to see the continuing contribution of Jim's work to the garden of so many people and to celebrate that in this forum, open to all, as, of course, is the Archive on the main site made available as a tribute to Jim's work and as a resource for all, as part of the SRGC's committment to sharing and information and disseminating it to as wide an audience as possible.
Thank you to all contributing and supporting the Archive.
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Please Note this carefully:
Archibald Master list:
https://www.srgc.net/filessub/archibald/seedlists/JJA_seedlist_master_SRGC.pdf
N. B. added later :
If you are following old SRGC site without https these will not work - you can find all up to date links from https://www.srgc.net and the Archibald archives from https://www.srgc.net/add-archibald-intro.asp