Bulb dealers have long used food metaphors to sell their wares. But the catalog being read in the Doonesbury piece seems to be making appeals to yet another appetite. My, my... Wow! We're mainstream now. Thanks, Jay. I looked right over these when I read the paper - maybe because the version in the Washington Post is black & white and not color. The one where the bulb was saying "I'm not in Holland anymore, am I?" really had me laughing. I would swear that some of the northern Indian Arisaema have done exactly the same thing here: pop up, look around, realize the horrible mistake, and drop into an irreversible depression forever. Jim McKenney jimmckenney@jimmckenney.com Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, 39.03871º North, 77.09829º West, USDA zone 7 My Virtual Maryland Garden http://www.jimmckenney.com/ BLOG! http://mcwort.blogspot.com/ Webmaster Potomac Valley Chapter, NARGS Editor PVC Bulletin http://www.pvcnargs.org/ Webmaster Potomac Lily Society http://www.potomaclilysociety.org/