This last weekend I was talking with a local botanist, Adolf Ceska about Trillium hibbersonii. He related two instances where local gardeners lost most or all of their stock after fertilizing it. Evidently the rule is, you feed it, you kill it. As soon as I hung up the phone, I went out and lifted my two tiny specimens and repotted them in a mixture of 75% pumice and 25% coarse granite sand. This accords with the way the late Albert de Mezey grew them, in what looked like trays of pure gravel. Those of you who have this plant, or who obtain it in the future, are hereby warned. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate on beautiful Vancouver Island