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I was doing my periodic Master Gardener stint on the phones at
the Extension Office and it was (mostly) a very slow day.
Herewith some websites that offer (especially in the case of
the
first one) virtual courses in gardening.

http://leon.ifas.ufl.edu/mg_reading_assignments.htm

This first one contains some web-based reading assignments for
the current year's crop of Master Gardeners for my area. (This
didn't exist when I took the course back in 1999 or the
Advanced
Master Gardener Course in 2001.) There probably isn't a lot of
stuff that
directly pertains to bonsai in here, but . . .

http://www.agnr.umd.edu/users/hgic/diagn/home.html

This second one is from the University of Maryland and has one
of
the best plant diagnostic sections I've seen. They must have
revised it considerably because I don't recall the maryland
extension site as being so polished. Look at the web-based
publications, too. There's a booklet on bonsai in the list of
mail-order
publications.

http://leon.ifas.ufl.edu/

This is my county's (Leon County Florida) extension site, with
links to the U of Fla. Extension sites. Look especially at
EDIS,
which is the University of Florida's web-based publications
section.

Hope these prove useful.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Only where
people have learned to appreciate and cherish the landscape and
its living cover will they treat it with the care and respect
it
should have - Paul Bigelow Sears.


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