PlantNetwork Newsletter No. 2 September 1995

PlantNetwork publishes a regular newsletter containing news and information from botanic gardens, arboreta and holders of other documented plant collections in Britain and Ireland. This newsletter is only available to members of PlantNetwork. Institutional members receive several copies of the Newsletter for circulation amongst their staff.

• PlantNet – Towards the Launchin March 1996
• Draft Constitution
• Meetings
• VAT and Cultural Services
• Honours and Appointments
• Establishing a private collection: how PlantNet can help
• International Oak Society
• The International Dendrological Society
• IUCN Species Survival Commission group on the Conservation of Temperate Broadleaved Trees
• National Forest & Memorial Arboretum
• The Plants Database, BG-BASE, at the World Conservation Monitoring Centre
• Some Lesser-known Plants in our Gardens
• A National Botanic Garden for Wales
• Update on computerisation of the RHS collections
• Chelsea Flower Show Successes
• Anniversaries in 1995
• Around the World

• Reports of PlantNet Meetings
• Commercialisation: Ethics & Intellectual Property Rights – issues for plant-collection holders
• Managing a Collection of Ericaceous Plants
• New Publications
• Diary