Table of Contents


HostaScience Volume 1 Number 2 Fall 2002

               Communication to the Editor                                                                                                             Page
Thermal Intervention in Hosta Vernalization
Edward F. Elslager.........................................................................................................................................................................................................1

Full Length Reports

Breeding and Selecting Miniature, Dwarf and Small Hostas
William Zumbar...................................................................................................................................................... 11
Evaluation of Pesticides for the Management of a Foliar Nematode, Aphelenchoides
fragariae on Hosta
Ganpati B. Jagdale andParwinder S. Grewal .............................................................................................................25
Root Barriers Allow Symbiotic Growth of Hostas and Trees Side by Side
AlexKeenan............................................................................................................................................................30
Hosta 'Supreme Expectations', a Chimeral Sport ofH. "Great Expectations'
Edward F.Elslager...................................................................................................................................................41
Root Mass and BA Affect Offset Formation in Hosta
Heather C. Schultz, Gary J. Keever, J. Raymond Kessler, Ronald R. Dute and John W. Olive .......................................49
Continuing Education. Hosta College Students Blinded in a Benzyladenine (BA) Root Mass
Study with H. 'Guacamole'
Edward F.Elslager and 2001 Hosta College Students ................................................................................................56
Overwintering of Benzyladenine (BA)-induced Offsets in Mature Hosta Cultivars
Edward F.Hslager...................................................................................................................................................71
2002 Breeder Profile Herb Benedict
HansHansen...........................................................................................................................................................80
Ralph H. Benedict, DVM, Practitioner of Hosta Science
Edward F.Elslager...................................................................................................................................................82
The Hosta Hybridizers Group HostaScience. Vol. 1(2). Fall 2002