Back Issues

Individual issues for 2003 and before are $8 each.
For 2004 and after, they are $12 each.
You can order full-year sets (six issues per set) for 1990-2003 at US $40 per set.*
Rates include postage in the USA and worldwide surface mail delivery.
For worldwide airmail delivery, add US $2 for EACH copy you order. Make check in US dollars payable to 'Palm Journal'. International and postal money orders must be drawn on US banks; cash is OK, if you must. Finally, we now accept Visa/MasterCard. Please identify whether Visa or MasterCard, provide your credit card number, expiration date, and show your name exactly as it appears on the card.

Mail your check, payable to PSSC, or credit card information, along with your request to:
David Paul Bleistein
P.O. Box 6
La Habra, CA 90633-0006 USA

*January 1994, January 1998, March 2000, September 2000, November 2003, and January 2004 are sold out.

The Palm Journal is the soul of the PSSC. We believe that our Palm Journal is one of the best publications of its kind in the world. Palms that grow in southern California are discussed in detail, and sometimes other related interests, such as Cycads. The most recent Palm Journal features color pictures on every page. Each issue of the Palm Journal has at least one, sometimes more, fully illustrated articles or monographs by noted palm authorities, including professors of botany. Wonder what that mystery Brahea might be? You can read the Palm Journal and find out.

Each issue of the Palm Journal is focused on a particular genus or genera of palms that have been grown in Southern California by Palm Society members. All PSSC members are encouraged to contribute articles for the Journal. Everyone's experience matters, and contributes to our ever-growing body of knowledge.

The Palm Journal also publishes articles on palms by contributors from all over the world. Palm lovers from France, Thailand, Hawaii, Florida, Mexico and other places have all shared with us the delights of raising palms. We also publish palm-related travelogues by PSSC members to places like Nong Nooch gardens in Thailand, the Fairchild botanical garden in Miami, and many others.

The Palm Journal also includes articles about palm-related matters like how to build and maintain a greenhouse (without ending up in the poorhouse), water usage in an ever-more-restricted environment, pest control, disease control, sprouting seeds, raising seedlings, and, sometimes the removal of a palm that needs to be.

Of course, every palm lover's appetite for new palms will be well-whetted by reading the Palm Journal's articles. It also includes ads by growers in California and elsewhere in the world, selling palms, seeds, and, occasionally, a palm-filled California or Hawaiian estate. The Palm Journal also publishes ads by other palm societies in the rest of the world.

The PSSC has an extensive collection of back issues of the Palm Journal going back to the early 1980s. They are a great deal of fun to read. Ever wonder what a wonderful garden of today looked like in 1984? 1994? 2004? Read the back issues and see. Experience the excitement when Ravenea rivularis made its debut. Experience, with our members, the growing excitement over numerous discoveries in Madagascar. Read about members' trips down the Amazon, or to Papua New Guinea, Madagascar and New Caledonia when the excitement about these places was building.

The pictures in the articles linked below are spectacular, but the ones in the Palm Journal are even better. We reduced the size and resolution here to accommodate palm lovers with slower browsers. (To better whet everyone's appetite for the Palm Journal, of course!)

From #189, Sabal Palms by: Jack Sayers; Justen Dobbs; Geoff Stein
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