Bulbs and Memories, Thank you Judy for mentioning Elizabeth Lawrence. That brings back the memory of my correspondence with Elizabeth Lawrence in the late 60's and early 70's about "found bulbs", particularly old narcissus cultivars. I was collecting cv's of tazettas in southern California and buying a few old narcissus cv's from listings in the rural farm classified sales sheets that came out from states in the southeast. Elizabeth was a help in putting names on some of these. I still have a large pan of N. jonquilla which dates from this time. It flourished and flowered well in southern California. Grows well here in the foothills of the mid Sierra Nevada's, but hardly flowers. One of my clones of Ledebouria socialis came from the late Ed Carman of Los Gatos. It certainly brings to mind the many happy hours of talking plants with Ed and snooping through his nursery of unusual plants. And it's this dwarf form of the common "violet squill" which prompted my recent interest in the genus Ledebouria and in the variations of L. socialis. This squill brings to mind another bulb which my grandfather always grew and called sea squill, which would have been Urginea maritima, but I think was actually Ornithogalum caudatum, with all the bulbils offsets under the scales. This fascinated me as a child. Also in my grandparents garden was a long wide row of Hippeastrum 'Johnsonii'. This old amaryllis was an unending source of bulbs for giving to friends and neighbors. In later years this bulb came back to me from one of the old neighbors. I no longer grow it, but was happy to see it mentioned recently in the PBS. Fred Boutin 2400 ft. elev. zone 7 Tuolumne, CA > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > >