"It is a half revealed truth that gardeners, for the most part, differ from many of their fellow men in that when success has at length crowned their efforts, whatever may have gone before, toil, trial and error, disappointment after disappointment, failures, all are swept completely from memory - - obliterated in the ecstasy of pure joy at the sight of the plants yielding up their loveliest rewards. For this reason, unless the amateur gardener is unusually persevering in keeping accurate records, he or she has little to offer by way of assistance to others when it comes to passing on more or less scientific information regarding the elements and conditions which have contributed to their particular achievements. The present writer is no exception to this regrettable generality." Elsie Reford, "Gentiana Macaulayi, variety Welsii at Estevan Lodge, Grand-Métis, P.Q. Canada"