<div> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hi Grace, again, good for you that you wrote your letter to Derek Fell, and I find his response at least somewhat encouraging. This is an example of the ongoing efforts we need to make toward education on the invasives problem. Thanks again for your efforts, Happy New Year also, and cheers,<br>
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From: gg lilly <pembrokes@ne.rr.com><br>
To: 'Wayne Tyson' <landrest@cox.net>; steveyoung@aol.com; apwg@lists.plantconservation.org<br>
Sent: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 4:58 pm<br>
Subject: FW: Invasive plants<br>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Hi,</span></font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Last month I posted my letter to Mr. Fell that
explained the invasiveness of several plant recommendations in his recent book,
<u>The Encyclopedia of Hardy Plants</u>. </span></font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">I thought that you would be interested in
his response.</span></font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Happy New Year!</span></font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Grace Lilly</span></font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> Derek Fell
[<a href="mailto:derekfell@verizon.net?">mailto:derekfell@verizon.net</a>] <br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, January 02, 2009
3:02 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:pembrokes@ne.rr.com">pembrokes@ne.rr.com</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Invasive plants</span></font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Thank you for your thorough and thoughtful letter about
invasive plants. I agree that many 'hardy' plants in my book are considered
invasive in some areas, and I could have been more specific in those cases
where a serious problem exists. Your examples about the most problematic would
certainly make the book more useful and I'll have to consider your suggestion
if there is an opportunity to make revisions in the future.</span></font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> I did, in fact, consider placing a symbol
against a potentially invasive plant, with a footnote, but my publisher didn't
like it because it complicates matters with foreign distribution. In New Zealand,
for example, where the book has been well received, Russell lupines have
been declared an invasive species, and even in my township a local invasive
plants group has placed bamboo on the list even though there are very few
stands of it. They also debated a long time whether to include wayside
daylilies before deciding that although they were invasive their addition to
the list would be too controversial. </span></font></div>
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