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First Name :   Elin Johnson
Email :   Johnsonelin@aol.com
Comment :   I very much enjoyed browsing your website. Your alpines are just marvelous!
First Name :   Betty
Email :   hostas@fuse.net
Comment :   What a wonderful website! I cannot begin to tell you how much I appreciate it! What a lot of work...and the information you are giving is a thrill for myself, a new rock gardener. I am newsletter editor for OVNARGS ( Ohio Valley Rock Garden society) as of
First Name :   Rick Hendrickson
Email :   yg716@victoria.tc.ca
Comment :   A superb website. Im an alpine plant enthusiast and your Lewisia pictures were particularly rewarding for me.
First Name :   Tom Forker
Email :   tforker@interisland.net
Comment :   Thank you for being so kind as to maintain both this website and your correspondence with the Alpine-L list. For those newly entered into the delights of growing alpines, resouces like this enable a quick, if perilous (for the plants that is) entry into a
Name :   Luc Gilgemyn
e-Mail :   luc.gilgemyn@telenet.be
Message :   Great website from a great plantsman and photographer ! Superb !
Name :   Beti Pecar
e-Mail :   ipecar@stonline.sk
Message :   Wonderful pictures of amazing plants,some i wonder ever growable
Name :   Hans Mol
e-Mail :   hcsmol@wanadoo.nl
Message :   Dear Franz, I was very impressed by your site. There are a lot of plants on it with excellent pictures. I also maintain u Dutch website about alpines and alpinegardening. You can find it on: http://home.wanadoo.nl/hcsmol/Index.htm I you like it
Name :   June Hall
e-Mail :   junehall@waitrose.com
Message :   Franz I found your website after you had kindly answered a query to srgc - what a find!! It is wonderful - where can I buy seeds of some of them - particularly your wonderful corydalis - thank you for sharing your garden with us!
Name :   Ralf Rockstroh
e-Mail :   Rockstroh-Schneeberg@steingartenverein.de
Message :   Hallo Franz, eine tolle Website und danke für die Tips über die Anzuchtbeete.
Name :   Felix Riegel
e-Mail :   felix.riegel@stmugv.bayern.de
Message :   Viele interessante Pflanzen aber die Rosa sempervirens ist Cistus salvifolius L. auf Page: http://www.franz-alpines.org/w_rosa_sempervirens.htm MfG Felix Riegel
Name :   Zdzisiek Baranowski
e-Mail :   bez1947@yahoo.com
Message :   Your plant and pictures are beautiful but it is your comments that I appreciate most - they are very helpful. Thank you very much.
Name :   Per Bangsgaard
e-Mail :   www.per-bangsgaard.dk
Message :   I like you garden and you have a very nice home page I come from Denmark and i have a lote of trillium and cypripedium
Name :   Ania Lumbe
e-Mail :   
Message :   Im delighted your beautiful colection alpine plants.
Name :   Doreen Mear
e-Mail :   doreenmear@xtra.co.nz
Message :   A very informative site, Franz, and delightful pictures, thank you.
Name :   Mandy Botincan
e-Mail :   mandy54@mts.net
Message :   Viewing your photos was like consuming the best bottle of wine the world has to offer! I could only handle some of them! Camera? Do I dare ask you if I may purchase your photos for my archives / or do you have a book with them included that I might buy. T
Name :   Margaret Glynn
e-Mail :   mglynn@brocklamont.com
Message :   Franz Ive just spent a pleasant half hour going through your web site and now feel very envious. One day I would love to see the garden for real! Do you know ZZ from Czech Republic? He stayed with me for a week earlier this year.
Name :   Mark Smyth
e-Mail :   marksgardenplants.com
Message :   Franz your bulb collection is fabulous. Well have to swap soon!
Name :   Ed Connors
e-Mail :   
Message :   Thank you from another rock gardener.
Name :   Elena Wernichsen
e-Mail :   wernich@online.no
Message :   What a wonderful, wonderful web site. I just couldn´t leave it and go to bed this night. I have seen some of Austrias amazing plants with my own eyes in Tirol, I never forget the bluest flowers Ive ever seen. Lots of luck from Elena, Saltdal, Norway.
Name :   Sue Jacobsen
e-Mail :   robasue@gte.net
Message :   Thank you Franz for the lovely pictures and for personally answering my questions. I fell in love with the alpine plants through my exposure in the Austrian Alps. Now I live the Pacific NW and search for alpines in the rugged North Cascades. This can be d
Name :   Liba
e-Mail :   liba.s@centrum.cz
Message :   You must be very happy to have so beauty of plants round about, it is very nice! I wish you to be successful in the future and Ill visit your pages always with pleasure. My best wishes to you, Liba
Name :   Marcia Brown Meigs
e-Mail :   arisaemaq@aol.com
Message :   Your site and rock garden are fantastic. Thank you for sharing it. I will mention your wonderful site in my next little column for the Adirodack Chapter of NARGS as a must see for winter gardening on the web. Happy Christmas, Marcia Meigs
Name :   Rev. H. Kurt Wieser
e-Mail :   Chaplainkw@aol.com
Message :   I am brand new at this game. Even though I am 48 I have just purchased my first house. To celebrate I made my first trough. After it cures I cant wait to plant it. Your web site with all of the pictures will help me make some of my first picks. Thanks for
Name :   Denyse Simpson
e-Mail :   rdsimpson@sympatico.ca
Message :   Hi Franz I finally had the chance to receive a few seeds by Ags,collected by you in the wild. I am very very happy.You are my inspiration. Many thanks
Name :   Thomas Götz
e-Mail :   tk.goetz@t-online.de
Message :   Sehr schöne Seite mit tollen Photos auch von selteneren Alpenpflanzen !! Ich bin gerade dabei, eine umfassende Alpen-Exkursionsflora zu schreiben und da sind Photos von Pflanzen, die ich selbst noch nicht blühend gesehen habe doch sehr nützlich. PS

Name :   Betty
e-Mail :   hostas@fuse.net
Message :   What a wonderful website! I cannot begin to tell you how much I appreciate it! What a lot of work...and the information you are giving is a thrill for myself, a new rock gardener. I am newsletter editor for OVNARGS ( Ohio Valley Rock Garden society) as of
Name :   Elin Johnson
e-Mail :   Johnsonelin@aol.com
Message :   I very much enjoyed browsing your website. Your alpines are just marvelous!
Name :   Barbara van Achterberg
e-Mail :   bvanachterberg@yahoo.com
Message :   Gorgeous website! Is that big grey thing you are leaning on in New Zealand a rock with Raoulia eximia or is it all? That whole thing cant be Raoulia eximia--can it?
Name :   Anne Spiegel
e-Mail :   Zanspi@aol.com
Message :   I wish that Campanula choruhensis would be happy in my garden. What an exceptional picture! Thank you for sharing your garden.
Name :   Charlotte Jacobson
e-Mail :   cmjac2003@yahoo.com
Message :   Thank you for sharing a most interesting rockgarden and your passion for plants. Your contributions to the Alpine-L site are most informative. Please continue. Best wishes
Name :   frances howey
e-Mail :   fhowey@odyssey.on.ca
Message :   Wow! What an inspiration. A definite Bookmark for me.
Name :   Alf Valjebeck
e-Mail :   adalwolf@spray.se
Message :   THIS WAS A TREAT!
Name :   Joan Mueller
e-Mail :   highmead@mwt.net
Message :   Hello, Franz-- I have visited your site several times and find it delightful and amazing. I am a Alpine-L lurker with an insignificant collection of alpine plants but an enormous appreciation of them and their growers. It is generous of you to share your
Name :   Theo ten Have
e-Mail :   theo@campanula.com
Message :   Your Garden and your Site are Beautiful, special the foto picther from the Cammpanula finitima Thank you.
Name :   Denyse Simpson
e-Mail :   rdsimpson@sympatico.ca
Message :   I live in Quebec,Canada and went to North Norway, Sweden and London this summer. I finally had the opportunity to picture a few alpines in the wild. Thanks for offering us so wonderful website and pictures. It kept me for the last hour... My dream is t
Name :   Carole Perkins
e-Mail :   caperk@optusnet.com.au
Message :   Hi Franz, When I see your beautiful plants and garden it inspires me to grow Alpines and to see if I can obtain some of these plants in Australia.
Name :   Val Stewart
e-Mail :   jeansunflowergirl@yahoo.ca
Message :   I am in the process of building a mountain in my backyard - it is in the skeleton phase right now, but should be ready for planting spring 2004. I spend alot of time looking at photos of alpine rock gardens, and I want to let you know that yours are some
Name :   mike collins
e-Mail :   mike@collins8470.freeserve
Message :   dear franz i enjoyed your website very much.you seem to have a lot good plants. do you ever offer surplus seed or plants for sale? iwas very interested in conandron ramondiodes, jankaea heldreichii, and x jankaemonda vandedemii. best wishes mike collins
Name :   Ray Fairbairn
e-Mail :   raymondfairbairn@lineone.net
Message :   Dear Franz it has been a pleasure to see your garden, If your travels ever take you to the north of England feel free to visit me. Is the A. chamaejasme you show a European specimen, if so I would love to get a little seed so that I may compare it with p
Name :   Tove.
e-Mail :   tove_sjursen@yahoo.no
Message :   Hallo Franz! You have done a great job! I have enjoued my visit so very much! Kind regards from Tove from Norway!
Name :   David Gehrs
e-Mail :   kt_dave
Message :   Great web-site. I live in UpState New York in a zone 5. I have been looking for Anchusa caespitosa for awhile. First do you know if it will live in a zone 5 climate if kept dry, and second do you know where I can obtain one. Thank you, Dave.
Name :   Sasha Borkovec
e-Mail :   borkovec@erols.com
Message :   What a lovely garden and plants!
Name :   Ferhat Celep
e-Mail :   ferhat_celep@hotmail.com
Message :   Its so nice to visit such a web site like yours. I am also botanicist and interested in plants. Approximately, a week ago I found Tulipa praecox in natural environment whıle I was workıng on the ground. But we have some suspıcıons so could you please send
Name :   Carol Jacobson
e-Mail :   rjacobson@tscnet.com
Message :   Incredible. Just incredible. Keep going.
Name :   Diana Dark
e-Mail :   Dianabob.Dark@nickys.sagehost.co.uk
Message :   Thank you very much for the opportunity to view your web-site. I will use it for reference
Name :   Ernest Ruddick
e-Mail :   alpinus26@ntlworld.com
Message :   Thanks for a wonderful alpine plant web site- lovely photo's. I have even identified one of my Frits from your pictures. Thanks a million.
Name :   Kristl Walek
e-Mail :   kristl@gardensnorth.com
Message :   Franz: A superb site and wonderful photography. I will be back to visit often.
Name :   Anne Kivari
e-Mail :   akivari@shaw.ca
Message :   Franz, Thank you for sharing your exquisite plants with the rest of us. I am really inspired and have so many questions. Anne Kivari
Name :   Mary Kordes
e-Mail :   mkordes@up.net
Message :   Thank you, Franz, for your most beautiful website. Your garden is gorgeous and the photos are a wonderful resource as I search for more alpines to grow. I'm in zone 5 but have heavy Lake Superior snow in winter, here in Michigan. I find I can grow many zo
Name :   Bob Mackie
e-Mail :   bobmackie@btinternet.com
Message :   Nice site glad to see you join Yahoo Primulas
Name :   Derek Lockey
e-Mail :   Ann.Lockey@btinternet.com
Message :   We enjoyed your colourful website. My main interest is Primulas. I live in north east England just west of Newcastle upon Tyne and on Hadrian's Wall. I am a member of the National Auricula and Primula Society, also the AGS and SRGC. I recently started
Name :   Lee Sandor
e-Mail :   jsandor@ptialaska.net
Message :   My name is Lee Sandor and I live in Juneau, Alaska, USA. Welcome to the Am. Primrose Society. Our climate has been ideal for most primroses and it is a delight to grow them. I have visited Wien on a number of occasions as my husband has relatives in Slova
Name :   P. Gustafson
e-Mail :   dgusgus@charter.net
Message :   I love your garden. I visited the CzechRebuplic in 1994 and drove with the Haldas to Turkey. It is wonderful to see you sitting at Zagona Pass where I also saw so many wonderful plants. I do trade seed from the Siskiyou Mountains of Southern Oregon if yo
Name :   Sandra Steinberg
e-Mail :   steinbergs@attbi.com
Message :   I garden in northern Connecticut, USA, Zone 5. Rhododendron, Alpines and woodland plants. I also belong to some of the same societies as you and come upon your name on Alpine-L. Thank you for your wonderful web site!
Name :   Jim Hatchett
e-Mail :   hatchett@kss.com
Message :   I liked your website. It seems you have a very fine garden. I live in Eagle, Idaho which is at moderate elevaton but having high mountains to the east and north and the great basin to the south. I am also interested in plants of small stature and prefere
Name :   Rex Murfitt
e-Mail :   enzian@islandnet.com
Message :   I enjoyed your page, particularly the pictures. Are they taken with a digital camera? if so they are amazingly sharp. The troughs with the S.longifolia are great. R.Murfitt
Name :   Barbara Haman
e-Mail :   Barbara.Haman@plantemoran.com
Message :   Loved the picture indicating your website had "moved." Thanks for such a wonderfully informative site!
Name :   Pete Conrad
e-Mail :   pacntac@attbi.com
Message :   Franz, You have a great web site matched by your superb garden. The pictures are teriffic. Thanks for sharing!!
Name :   Harry Dewey
e-Mail :   HTD10@Columbia.edu
Message :   I hope you won't mind if I use your guestbook to thank you for the many responses you've made to others who signalled their need for help in the cultivation of alpines. I'm not talking now about the enormous help provided by the information and pictures
Name :   Anne Spiegel
e-Mail :   zanspi@aol.com
Message :   Enjoyed your plant portraits immensely. The photographs are really beautiful. Can you tell me what kind of camera and film you use and if you always use a tripod? We photograph every summer in the Dolomites where we hike, also in the Rockies in US, and we
Name :   Muriel
e-Mail :   MerryGold NZ@ Hotmail
Message :   Loved having the pleasure of a peek at your garden. I think you would be very interesting to talk to. I am just a raw beginner. Here's to an enjoyable summer. Make your day a happy one! Great gardening, From Jolli Muriel
Name :   Anne Spiegel
e-Mail :   zanspi@aol.com
Message :   Your pictures are exquisite. I enjoyed visiting so much. Thank you.
Name :   Anna Leggatt
e-Mail :   alexander.leggatt@utoronto.ca
Message :   Lovely pictures!. I checked your page to see the Ranunculus pyrenenaus. I saw it 3 years ago on a trip to Spain. I will check your page again Anna
Name :   Iain Williams
e-Mail :   idwilliams@optusnet.com.au
Message :   Stunning photographs with an excellent cross section of species(from Australia)
Name :   Michael Peden
e-Mail :   pedens@willex.com
Message :   Wow Franz! Great plants! Certainly some of the most beautiful on earth. Now about those "vegetable sheep"? Catchy critters eh?
Name :   Shelley Straughan
e-Mail :   michele_straughan@yahoo.com
Message :   Your gardens are spectacular! I have just begun my new adventure into the world of alpines and am so excited!! Your webpages are by far the most lovely I have yet visited. It is so nice for a beginner like me to be able to see gorgeous pictures of so many
Name :   Cliff Booker
e-Mail :   c.booker2@ukonline.co.uk
Message :   My dear Frank, What a wonderful site...so full of colour, beauty and interest. I am especially glad you share my love of those gorgeous Ranunculus species. I send greetings from East Lancashire, England and the best wishes of the East Lancashire Group of
Name :   Rick Hendrickson
e-Mail :   yg716@victoria.tc.ca
Message :   A superb website. I'm an alpine plant enthusiast and your Lewisia pictures were particularly rewarding for me.
Name :   Tom Forker
e-Mail :   tforker@interisland.net
Message :   Thank you for being so kind as to maintain both this website and your correspondence with the Alpine-L list. For those newly entered into the delights of growing alpines, resouces like this enable a quick, if perilous (for the plants that is) entry into a
 
Name :   Lenka Poncova
e-Mail :   lenka.poncova@mattoni.cz
Message :   Your websites are realy interesting. I have always been dreaming about having a garden with many plants - and now, my dream are coming truth. I will in start in this spring. I wish you good luck.Lenka
Name :   Jane McGary
e-Mail :   janemcgary@earthlink.net
Message :   Thank you for this fine site!
Name :   Chris Theoharis
e-Mail :   annax@shaw.ca
Message :   Hello, Im just starting out, and happened to link to your site. Beautiful. I hope to do a quarter as well some day. Cheers, Chris
Name :   Mr.Kim Ryong-Woong
e-Mail :   rwkim@hanmail.net
Message :   To be frank with you,I was greatly inspired and shocked by your accomplishments shown in the website, after browsing the contents with great care and enthusiasm motivate me to be more indulged in studing/propagating and growing the vaious species,cultivar
Name :   Denyse Simpson
e-Mail :   rdsimpson@sympatico.ca
Message :   Hi Franz I finally had the chance to receive a few seeds by Ags,collected by you in the wild. I am very very happy.You are my inspiration. Many thanks
Name :   Beate Kik
e-Mail :   beatekik@gmx.de
Message :   Ich bin voller Bewunderung für Ihr wunderbares Hobby,was für ein schöner Garten und welch tolle Photos.Viel Freude weiterhin wünscht Beate Kik
Name :   Caroline Jacobson
e-Mail :   rjacobson@tscnet.com
Message :   Thank you, the pictures of individual plants are choice. The whole site is beautiful and inspiring.
Name :   Thomas Götz
e-Mail :   tk.goetz@t-online.de
Message :   Sehr schöne Seite mit tollen Photos auch von selteneren Alpenpflanzen !! Ich bin gerade dabei, eine umfassende Alpen-Exkursionsflora zu schreiben und da sind Photos von Pflanzen, die ich selbst noch nicht blühend gesehen habe doch sehr nützlich. PS
Name :   JOHN BYK
e-Mail :   JONBYKBC.@.COM
Message :   YOU HAVE A GREAT GARDEN I AM POLISH A WENT YO POLAND TWICE VISITED SOME GARDENS ,BUT NOTING LIKE YOURS GOOD LUCK GOOD GARDENING JOHN BYK
Name :   Ed Connors
e-Mail :   
Message :   Outstanding++++Thank You
Name :   Mr Stephen Craven
e-Mail :   mcys09086@blueyonder.co.uk
Message :   Lieber Franz!! Wie geht es ihnen? ich bin den Mann mit dem Schau Aurikeln !! kennst du mich? Wie ist das Wetter in Osterreich? wir haben Frost. Frohe Weihnachten und ein schones neues Jahr mit sehr freundlichen grussen aus England Steve Craven
Name :   Bob Meaden
e-Mail :   Robertmeaden@aol.com
Message :   Splendid site, much enyoyed. Will visit again.
Name :   Zhirair Basmajyan
e-Mail :   boras@freenet.am
Message :   Wonderful website and collection. A lot of useful anformation and pictures. One of the best sites in the net. I do trade our native Armenian bubls, so if youre intersted ....
Name :   Ed Connors
e-Mail :   
Message :   Thank you from another rock gardener.
Name :   www,per-bangsgaard.dk
e-Mail :   alnor@mail.tele.dk
Message :   very nice site nice picture
Name :   www.per-bangsgaard.dk
e-Mail :   alnor@mail.tele.dk
Message :   very nice site nice picture
Name :   Elena Wernichsen
e-Mail :   wernich@online.no
Message :   What a wonderful, wonderful web site. I just couldn´t leave it and go to bed this night. I have seen some of Austrias amazing plants with my own eyes in Tirol, I never forget the bluest flowers Ive ever seen. Lots of luck from Elena, Saltdal, Norway.
Name :   liz butler-henderson
e-Mail :   rinkrat2@telus.net
Message :   beautiful plants greetings from frog hollow gardens, in beautiful parson, b.c.
Name :   Sue Jacobsen
e-Mail :   robasue@gte.net
Message :   Thank you Franz for the lovely pictures and for personally answering my questions. I fell in love with the alpine plants through my exposure in the Austrian Alps. Now I live the Pacific NW and search for alpines in the rugged North Cascades. This can be d
Name :   Liba
e-Mail :   liba.s@centrum.cz
Message :   You must be very happy to have so beauty of plants round about, it is very nice! I wish you to be successful in the future and Ill visit your pages always with pleasure. My best wishes to you, Liba
Name :   Joyce Miller
e-Mail :   onager@midtown.net
Message :   First time viewer. Sacramento, California United States Department Agriculture zone 9
Name :   Alf Valjebeck
e-Mail :   adalwolf@spray.se
Message :   Ah, very very good to look at all those loveley pictures. All the best! Alf
Name :   Marcia Brown Meigs
e-Mail :   arisaemaq@aol.com
Message :   Your site and rock garden are fantastic. Thank you for sharing it. I will mention your wonderful site in my next little column for the Adirodack Chapter of NARGS as a must see for winter gardening on the web. Happy Christmas, Marcia Meigs
Name :   Mehdi Zarrei
e-Mail :   mzarrei@khayam.ut.ac.ir, gagzarrei@yahoo.com
Message :   I would like to thank you for your nice website and garden. I have enjoyed too much. Best wishes
Name :   George Sevastopulo
e-Mail :   gsvstpul@tcd.ie
Message :   An inspirational site
Name :   Rev. H. Kurt Wieser
e-Mail :   Chaplainkw@aol.com
Message :   I am brand new at this game. Even though I am 48 I have just purchased my first house. To celebrate I made my first trough. After it cures I cant wait to plant it. Your web site with all of the pictures will help me make some of my first picks. Thanks for
Name :   Kandi Hill
e-Mail :   kandikae@aol.com
Message :   Great site. From Cedar Hill, TEXAS, USA
Name :   Erwin
e-Mail :   winwen@gmx.at
Message :   Im happy having found someone dedicated to alpines who is also living in Vienna! I have visited your website many times, especially appreciating the Junos. Only the picture linked to Iris nicolai, seems to show iris kolpakowskiana. Anyway - a really g
Name :   Lenka Poncova
e-Mail :   lenka.poncova@mattoni.cz
Message :   Your websites are realy interesting. I have always been dreaming about having a garden with many plants - and now, my dream are coming truth. I will in start in this spring. I wish you good luck.Lenka
Name :   Jane McGary
e-Mail :   janemcgary@earthlink.net
Message :   Thank you for this fine site!
Name :   Chris Theoharis
e-Mail :   annax@shaw.ca
Message :   Hello, Im just starting out, and happened to link to your site. Beautiful. I hope to do a quarter as well some day. Cheers, Chris
Name :   Mr.Kim Ryong-Woong
e-Mail :   rwkim@hanmail.net
Message :   To be frank with you,I was greatly inspired and shocked by your accomplishments shown in the website, after browsing the contents with great care and enthusiasm motivate me to be more indulged in studing/propagating and growing the vaious species,cultivar
Name :   Denyse Simpson
e-Mail :   rdsimpson@sympatico.ca
Message :   Hi Franz I finally had the chance to receive a few seeds by Ags,collected by you in the wild. I am very very happy.You are my inspiration. Many thanks
Name :   Beate Kik
e-Mail :   beatekik@gmx.de
Message :   Ich bin voller Bewunderung für Ihr wunderbares Hobby,was für ein schöner Garten und welch tolle Photos.Viel Freude weiterhin wünscht Beate Kik
Name :   Caroline Jacobson
e-Mail :   rjacobson@tscnet.com
Message :   Thank you, the pictures of individual plants are choice. The whole site is beautiful and inspiring.
Name :   Thomas Götz
e-Mail :   tk.goetz@t-online.de
Message :   Sehr schöne Seite mit tollen Photos auch von selteneren Alpenpflanzen !! Ich bin gerade dabei, eine umfassende Alpen-Exkursionsflora zu schreiben und da sind Photos von Pflanzen, die ich selbst noch nicht blühend gesehen habe doch sehr nützlich. PS
Name :   JOHN BYK
e-Mail :   JONBYKBC.@.COM
Message :   YOU HAVE A GREAT GARDEN I AM POLISH A WENT YO POLAND TWICE VISITED SOME GARDENS ,BUT NOTING LIKE YOURS GOOD LUCK GOOD GARDENING JOHN BYK
Name :   Ed Connors
e-Mail :   
Message :   Outstanding++++Thank You
Name :   Mr Stephen Craven
e-Mail :   mcys09086@blueyonder.co.uk
Message :   Lieber Franz!! Wie geht es ihnen? ich bin den Mann mit dem Schau Aurikeln !! kennst du mich? Wie ist das Wetter in Osterreich? wir haben Frost. Frohe Weihnachten und ein schones neues Jahr mit sehr freundlichen grussen aus England Steve Craven
 
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