In response to Judy Glattstein's reply to the controversy over quotations used in her new book, "Bulbs for Garden Habitats": I have no quarrel with the attribution in the book, which is extensive and no doubt perfectly adequate. I did not, however, receive any text to review of the passages attributed to me. I have heard from one other person who did, however. Perhaps my initial e-mail response to Glattstein's questionnaire was poorly phrased, so that she misinterpreted my disinclination to be involved in her project as a blanket permission. This points to the usefulness of obtaining standard, hard-copy, signed permissions for use of others' text -- permissions that a publisher usually requires the author to provide during the editing phase, before the book is released for printing. If Glattstein's publisher didn't at least think about whether this should be done, that is an omission on the press's part; or perhaps they thought about it, and decided that the statements she had obtained via e-mail were adequate. The omission of a bibliography by the publisher is unfortunate, and it is good that the author has explained this. Given the extensive (and likely to become outdated) "Sources" section in the back matter, it is difficult to understand how room could not be found for, say, a two-page list of useful general books. Timber Press also failed the author in the matter of providing competent copyediting; but one can't blame an author for that. Given my views already expressed, I would of course not write a review of it in a journal I myself edit. In fact, one of the requirements for reviewers of books in the Rock Garden Quarterly is that the reviewer has not contributed to the book, and that he or she not be well acquainted with the author -- difficult constraints, sometimes, in the small world of specialist gardening. Although I sometimes write reviews, I usually do this because I can't find anyone else to address a certain book. It should be relatively easy to find a suitable reviewer for Judy Glattstein's book, however. Nor should the eventual reviewer fail to find value in this book. It appears to be a good introduction for the novice to intermediate gardener to a range of geophytes not found in many gardens, particularly those plants suitable for eastern and southern North America. The personal, anecdotal style will appeal to many readers and encourage them to try new plants. In a sense, this updates the long-ago work of Louise Beebe Wilder on the same topic and regions. Jane McGary Northwestern Oregon, USA