Dear Mary Sue and all, I have most of the books mentioned so far in this discussion but the one mentioned that really brought back memories, and I still refer to it, is the Ortho book you mentioned in your last message,perhaps a rather unusual book to be on sale in Australia but I have it and a sister one called "All About Perennials". According to the price tag on the cover I paid $1.90 Aust. each for these in the dim distant past. Another American book which first introduced me to such delights as Bessera and Erythroniums and other delectable goodies is an earlier one from 1982, HP Books "Bulbs, How to Select,Grow and Enjoy" by George Harmon Scott. I wonder if Horticulural Press still exists? At that time this book was the place of dreams as few of the non mainstream bulbs were available here and those that were I could not possibly have bought at that time due to financial and family constraints way back then, Lyn Edwards Canberra