March 2007

Hello all:

Here is a list of some recent magazine articles and internet sites. If you are interested in any article, please let me know at Susan.Eubank@arboretum.org or at 626-821-3213 or in person at the Arboretum Library. Our hours for the Library are available at the Arboretum website (http://www.arboretum.org). If you would like to be removed from this list, please also contact me. If you have particular subjects you’d like me to look for let me know.



Articles

Phillips, Leonard, “Bald-cypress: the 2007 urban tree of the year.” Arbor Age, v. 27, no. 1 (Jan. 2007), p. 12-13.

Meerow, Alan W., “El desierto florido [Chile’s Atacama Desert during an El Niño year].” Bulbs: Bulletin of the International Bulb Society, v. 7, no. 1 (Jan.-June 2005), p. 7-15.

Bean, Anthony R., “A new system for determining which plant species are indigenous in Australia.” Australian Systematic Botany, v. 20, no. 1 (2007), p. 1-43.

Childs, Jim, “Dahlias: light up your late-summer garden.” Garden Gate, no. 74, (Apr. 2007), p. 12-17.

Ruch, Pamela, “The perfect tomato plan: whether you’re a complete novice or an old hand, follow these directions as we guarantee you the biggest and best harvest you’ve ever had.” Organic Gardening, v. 54, no. 3 (Apr. 2007), p. 58-63, 65.

Wester, Petra and Regine Classen-Bockhoff, “Nectar for the birds: two species of Salvia join Salvia africana-lutea as the only three species in the ‘Old World’ to be exclusively pollinated by birds.” Veld & Flora, v. 92, no. 3 [sic] (Dec. 2006), p. 196-197.

Bochet, Esther, Patricio García-Fayos, and Jaume Tormo, “Road slope revegetation in semiarid Mediterranean environments, part 1: Seed dispersal and spontaneous colonization.” Restoration Ecology, v. 15, no. 1 (Mar. 2007), p. 88-96.

Tormo, Jaume, Esther Bochet and Patricio García-Fayos, “Roadfill revegetation in semiarid Mediterranean environments, part 2: Topsoiling, species selection, and hydroseeding.” Restoration Ecology, v. 15, no. 1 (Mar. 2007), p. 97-102.

Quarles, William, “Landscape IPM for spider mites.” Common Sense Pest Control Quarterly, v. 22, nos. 2/3 (Spr./Sum. 2006), p. 8-10.

Quarles, William, “Managing fungus gnats on indoor plants.” Common Sense Pest Control Quarterly, v. 22, nos. 2/3 (Spr./Sum. 2006), p. 11-17.

Schwartz, David, “A xeric fern rock garden.” Fiddlehead Forum: Bulletin of the American Fern Society, v. 33, no. 5 (Oct.-Dec. 2006), p. 25-29.

Asakawa, Bruce, “Girdling [for stimulating flowering and changing growth habit].” Garden Compass, (Mar./Apr. 2007), p. 12.

Asakawa, Sharon, “Bonfante Gardens Family Theme Park: a dream come true.” Garden Compass, (Mar./Apr. 2007), p. 32-36.

Pierce, Simon, “Leviathans of the cloud forest: epiphytic bromeliads with woody stems.” Journal of the Bromeliad Society, v. 57, no. 1 (Jan.-Feb. 2007), v. 12-15.

Viani, Lisa Owens. “Best laid plans: Long known for its arboreal splendor, the University of California’s Berkeley campus is facing the chain saw.” Landscape Architecture, v. 97, no. 3 (Mar. 2007), p. 24.

Carr, Ethan, “National parks: the uncertain road ahead, caught between politics and underfunding landscape architecture in the National Park Service evolves while struggling to preserve parks unimpaired for future generations.” Landscape Architecture, v. 97, no. 3 (Mar. 2007), p. 80-87.

Sardar, Zahid, “Garden snake: in San Francisco, landscape architects and artists collaborate to rescue a neighborhood park from urban blight.” Landscape Architecture, v. 97, no. 3 (Mar. 2007), p. 104-109.

Websites

World Checklist of Monocotyledons
www.kew.org/wcsp/monocots
www.kew.org/data/grasses-syn.html
75,000 accepted names with 200,000 synonyms with citations where the current names are accepted. The overview entry also shows a geographic range and a complicated code series details the general range. There is a direct link to Google images. An advanced search has many options such as allowing you to retrieve which iris are native to southeastern Europe. The grass list will be integrated later this year.

International Earth Day
Website for this version of Earth Day, as celebrated on the spring equinox in March. (Earth Day is generally observed in April.) Features background of this day that was initiated "on March 21, 1970. The first Proclamation of Earth Day was by San Francisco, the City of Saint Francis, patron saint of ecology." Includes an Earth Day charter and guide for earth trustees by Earth Day founder John McConnell, and related material.
URL: http://www.earthsite.org

Growing Up in the Wine Industry
Transcript and audio of a 2006 radio interview with E.&J. Gallo Winery president Joseph Gallo "about learning the family business from Ernest and Julio, and passing it on." Also includes a brief history of this California winery, which "has earned a reputation for being a pioneer and tastemaker, from being the first company to introduce screw-cap bottles in the 1940s to being one of the first wine producers to advertise." From American Public Media.
URL: http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2006/11/16/AM200611162.html

New Online Guide for Identifying the World's Seeds and Fruits
http://nt.ars-grin.gov/sbmlweb/OnlineResources/frsdfam/Index.cfm
The bulk of agricultural commerce is in the form fruits and seeds. Most weeds and invasive species also move around as fruits and seeds. The database accessible here, has 418 families of seed plants, all the families of seed plants recognized by the USDA in December 2003. The following characters are recorded for each family: 17 cone characters, 123 fruit characters, 175 seed characters, and three distribution characters. Also, those families with declared noxious weed species in the U.S.A. are indicated as such, and the species are listed. The data are stored in DELTA format and were converted to a binary format for interactive identification and queries using the INTKEY software program of CSIRO.

http://butterfly.ucdavis.edu/
California's butterflies online
One of the two largest butterfly databases in the world will be open to the public on March 1, 2007. The 35 years' worth of data on butterfly populations across northern California has important implications for the study of global climate change. Since 1972, Professor Arthur Shapiro of the Center for Population Biology and Section of Evolution and Ecology at UC Davis has counted butterflies at sites across northern California from sea level to the tree line, 9,000 feet up in the Sierra Nevada. At each site, data are collected every two weeks during butterfly season. By the end of 2006, Shapiro had logged more than 5,000 site visits and 83,000 individual records of 159 species and subspecies. That data is now available with climate data from nearby weather stations, descriptions of study sites and habitats, and numerous photos. Much of the information is directly available. Users interested in more detail can obtain a password to access the entire database.

http://iv.ucdavis.edu
New viticulture website offers online grape information
A wealth of information about grape growing is now available to the wine and grape community, and general public, at the University of California's new user-friendly Integrated Viticulture Online Web site. The new site, is designed to increase accessibility to the work of university researchers, including faculty and Cooperative Extension specialists and farm advisors. Content is continuously added and updated. The heart of the site is the "viticultural information" section, which provides information on a variety of subjects ranging from grapevine breeding to worker health and safety. Photos and links to valuable publications, people and online resources are included.

Thanks for reading!
Susan C. Eubank
Arboretum Librarian
Arboretum Library
Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden
301 North Baldwin Avenue
Arcadia, California 91007
626-821-3213
626-445-1217 (fax)
www.arboretum.org


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