To: fuwafuwausagi@muchomail.com, North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
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Subject: [NAFEX] Re: Speaking of the Fluffster,Pomona (mark wessel)
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 16:23:14 -0700
When I compare the wealth of information that I gleaned from the
first few years' issues to those of more recent publication, it
appears to me that the overall quality of submissions has declined
A beginner is overwhelmed and overjoyed on first reading a
horticultural journal. Later, when he has assimilated all that
information, and put it into practice, thereby adding knowledge from
personal experience, he needs a much higher level of information to
satisfy him. Where is this going to come from?
It is a problem with all groups: how can you satisfy the different
levels of expertise among the members? Those at the top must grow
weary of constantly meeting the needs of beginners and intermediates.
Where do they nourish their own curiosity?
I had a neigbour once that I found odd, but maybe he had found a way
to avoid the problem. He would become an expert in something - at
the time I met him it was photographing mushrooms. As soon as he
knew everything he could about that subject, he would drop it
completely and take up woodworking, or something else entirely
different.