Dear All; I just moved soap boxes from ranting about Standard Bulb Treatments not suitable for all bulbs. But I have already stepped to another soap box for a new tale of "bulb danger". Again I won't berate the large Dutch growers or an individual seller, but instead relate my own personal experience and let you draw conclusions. Yesterday's mail brought the catalog for Peter DeJager Bulb Co. The catalog is two parts; the first a slick color brochure of 16 pages illustrating about 560 postage-stamp-size bulb flowers; the second part is a pretty home made price list that's a bit hard to follow. No further comment on part 2. Part one-the color brochure is pretty neat to see all those color pictures across the pages. Being a it of a Lycoris nut (I said 'a bit!!") I went to those pictures to see if they were actually selling L. chinensis or L. aurea as these are often confused names. There are pictures labelled as L. radiata, L. squamiera and L. aurea at the top of the page. Looking closely I wasn't certain of the ID of L. aurea, looking more closely the color of L. squamigera seemed far too pink. Then it Struck me - GASP!!! The three different species were actually THE SAME PHOTO- two mirror images and 'Photoshop'-colored to fit the name: Red L. radiata, Bright pink , reversed L. squamigera and Yellow L. aurea reversed back!! Absolutely identical pictures, totally computer manipulated. Then I wasn't sure that any were actually the species they named. This sure got me thinking. If the company would be so outrageous to foist doctored pictures in the catalog, what would they send? This is a very misleading and disturbing practice. I got to looking at more pictures and although none jumped out as similarly doctored, I then thought hard if I even wanted to place an order. I hear rumors about practices of wanton substitution and use of incorrect names since American bulb buyers are not as discriminating or complain less than others. Well I plan on complaining and will not order. I can't relate any info on the quality or identity of bulbs they actually sell, but I sure do not like this practice one bit. Enough to tell others Buyer Beware! Still fuming Jim W. -- Dr. James W. Waddick 8871 NW Brostrom Rd. Kansas City Missouri 64152-2711 USA Ph. 816-746-1949 E-fax 419-781-8594 Zone 5 Record low -23F Summer 100F +