Joyce wrote, > Would love to have a start of Dracunculis vulgaris. I had >one once potted but it failed after blooming in Sacramento. Here, I >can plant in the ground. My dogs are sure to love the odor. Actually, even though the inflorescence of D. vulgaris smells like carrion to us humans, it apparently doesn't to the much more discriminating olfactory sense of dogs. My dogs have never seemed even to investigate this plant in flower, although when it blooms I always start out blaming the dogs for having concealed a dead mole somewhere nearby. There must be some component in the emanations of various aroids that stimulates pollinating insects, but even I can tell the "cow-manure-like" smell of certain species from the smell of real cow manure -- and my dogs haven't ever tried to roll in the arums, which unfortunately is their immediate response to real manure. Jane McGary Northwestern Oregon, USA