Sylvia wrote, >How difficult would it be to talk to fellow gardeners, local college horticulture departments, other researchers, what have you, and set up - well in advance of the need - an agreed upon place for the care of our >pants? It's more likely to be taken seriously by those whose job it is to be the trustee or executor if we've provided precise and clear advance instructions and have set up our plans with the people or institutions >who have agreed to take over our work. I don't know whether I will still have a bulb collection at the relevant time, but my current will specifies that it be given to a particular, younger grower. I think this is safer than bequeathing plants to an institution such as a botanical garden or horticulture department, because as many of us have seen, specialist holdings in institutions can suffer when the institution doesn't have a specialist person in charge of them. Jane McGary Portland, Oregon, USA