I said it would never happen to me, but once I saw Hitch Lyman's collection, I couldn't help being a tiny bit smitten. Over time I've acquired a few fancy cultivars from Hitch, plus masses of old-fashioned singles and doubles from various sources. When we had to move last fall, though I brought a 15' truck of plants with me, I could find hardly any of my deeply dormant snowdrops. Yesterday a friend from Oswego visited me, and before he came, he swung by the still-unsold house and former nursery and dug me a flat of doubles, a flat of Eranthis, and two pots of very special named snowdrops that he managed to notice and extract. I am happy. :-) Now, if only the city would come by and remove the very large run-over skunk parked squarely in the middle of my road in front of my house, I would be even happier. Ah, spring. Ellen Ellen Hornig 212 Grafton St Shrewsbury MA 01545 508-925-5147