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Title: Snowdrops - the new testament
Post by: mark smyth on March 16, 2011, 06:35:47 PM
I heard a whisper that the new testament will not include the snowdrops in the first book.
Title: Re: Snowdrops - the new testament
Post by: art600 on March 16, 2011, 06:41:06 PM
 ??? ??? ???
Title: Re: Snowdrops - the new testament
Post by: chasw on March 16, 2011, 06:44:56 PM
Is that the first and second books Mark?
Title: Re: Snowdrops - the new testament
Post by: mark smyth on March 16, 2011, 06:48:18 PM
first and second but wasnt the only difference the extra index?
Title: Re: Snowdrops - the new testament
Post by: Gerard Oud on March 16, 2011, 06:48:51 PM
So not the ones from the old testament ;D
Title: Re: Snowdrops - the new testament
Post by: chasw on March 16, 2011, 06:50:01 PM
I think that there were a few ,and only a few different pictures,but I suppose it would be a rather thick book if they put all in it
Title: Re: Snowdrops - the new testament
Post by: Hagen Engelmann on March 16, 2011, 07:02:14 PM
where is the problem, Mark? We all are waiting for new cultivars and new pics. Because the older are in the bible, we have of course.
Title: Re: Snowdrops - the new testament
Post by: GoodGrief on March 16, 2011, 07:25:26 PM
I heard a whisper that the new testament will not include the snowdrops in the first book.

I heard it direct from the horse's mouth...
Title: Re: Snowdrops - the new testament
Post by: johnw on March 16, 2011, 07:37:01 PM
where is the problem, Mark? We all are waiting for new cultivars and new pics. Because the older are in the bible, we have of course.

I see no need unless there is new information that surfaces on the ones in Volume 1.  Hagen I wonder if they will give an estimate in €-$-₤ if one were to buy all the new ones.   :o

johnw
Title: Re: Snowdrops - the new testament
Post by: mark smyth on March 16, 2011, 07:42:42 PM
No problem at all but it would save me having to buy a new copy of the original. My copy is very dirty
Title: Re: Snowdrops - the new testament
Post by: annew on March 16, 2011, 10:23:38 PM
Rats -  >:( - that means I'll have to buy a new copy of the Old Testament as mine has the dreadful index, and I have to look everything up in a printout of a proper index that a kind forumist sent me.
Title: Re: Snowdrops - the new testament
Post by: gote on March 17, 2011, 08:13:56 AM
 ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???
Göte
Title: Re: Snowdrops - the new testament
Post by: ashley on March 17, 2011, 09:46:30 AM
??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???
Göte

Just an outbreak of religious fervour Göte ;)

I find the species descriptions in CITES Bulbs (http://citesbulbs.myspecies.info/) very useful.  Are they based on the 1999 Davis book (http://citesbulbs.myspecies.info/content/genus-galanthus) (or vice versa) does anyone know?
Title: Re: Snowdrops - the new testament
Post by: Brian Ellis on March 17, 2011, 09:47:02 AM
Rats -  >:( - that means I'll have to buy a new copy of the Old Testament as mine has the dreadful index, and I have to look everything up in a printout of a proper index that a kind forumist sent me.

Perhaps they will put a complete index in the new one if we all ask for it!
Title: Re: Snowdrops - the new testament
Post by: Alan_b on March 17, 2011, 11:32:26 AM
Perhaps they will put a complete index in the new one if we all ask for it!

Other issues notwithstanding, a complete index covering both volumes is an extremely good idea.  I hope the authors follow your suggestion (if they weren't already intending to do this).
Title: Re: Snowdrops - the new testament
Post by: Brian Ellis on March 17, 2011, 12:25:04 PM
Well I did email Matt so fingers crossed 8)
Title: Re: Snowdrops - the new testament
Post by: Brian Ellis on March 17, 2011, 04:05:56 PM
...and here is his answer
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The new book will likely include an index to all cultivars, and as I work through the chapters, all cultivars in the previous book are cross -referenced with their page numbers given, mentioned where they occur within the updated division system, to enable comparison of all like plants in both volumes.
Title: Re: Snowdrops - the new testament
Post by: annew on March 17, 2011, 09:26:54 PM
Clever marketing too, as people who buy the new book will have to have the old one as well, or half the items in the index will be missing.
Title: Re: Snowdrops - the new testament
Post by: gote on March 18, 2011, 09:51:34 AM
??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???
Göte
Just an outbreak of religious fervour Göte ;)
Oh I understand that  ;) but..... I cannot imagine that I will find references to snowdrops in either Testament so still  ??? ??? ??? ???
Göte
Title: Re: Snowdrops - the new testament
Post by: Anthony Darby on March 18, 2011, 10:03:53 PM
I heard a whisper that the new testament will not include the snowdrops in the first book.
Gospel, according to Mark?
Title: Re: Snowdrops - the new testament
Post by: mark smyth on March 18, 2011, 11:16:57 PM
Gote the snowdrop book became known as the bible. The new book has been nick named the new testament
Title: Re: Snowdrops - the new testament
Post by: gote on March 21, 2011, 04:42:21 PM
Gote the snowdrop book became known as the bible. The new book has been nick named the new testament
Thank you - now I get it. Usually it is the acronyms that I do not understand.  ;D
Göte
Title: Re: Snowdrops - the new testament
Post by: Lina Hesseling on November 07, 2012, 12:14:28 PM
Does anyone know how far the writers are with The New Bible?
Isn't it published this winter?

Lina.
Title: Re: Snowdrops - the new testament
Post by: Hagen Engelmann on November 07, 2012, 12:20:52 PM
Lina, the only right moment to print this book is in winter time. A galanthus book published and pressed in summer, no good idea ::)
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