Collections : [UCF Special Collections]

Democratic Women's Club of Florida donated these materials to the University of Central Florida Libraries Special Collections & University Archives Department on December 7, 2017. Accession Number: CFM 2017_14.

This series holds additional materials received from the Bromeliad Society International (BSI) in 2015. Some of these materials include a World Bromeliad Conference '72 schedule events and a letter sent out to BSI members from the chair, Patrick Mitchell; a manuscript called "Bromeliad Hybrids and Cultivars" compiled by Brian Smith in 1984; "A Preliminary Listing of All Known Cultivar and Grex Names for the Bromeliaceae" created by Bromeliad Society, Inc. and arranged by Don A. Beadle, includes named and unnamed grexes, names of collectors, hybridizers, developers, references, and dates; "First Tentative Listing of Bromeliad Cultivars" prepared by Brian Smith in 1989; four copper color separations for one print; and various publications from Australia, New Zealand, and the United States.