Two houses prior to the one we are in now there was a cupboard in the finished basement where we kept the back issues of Scientific American. Termites ate them, to the extent that Terminex, the pest control company, asked to keep some. They would kill the termites, bag the magazines, and keep them to show new customers. I've given gardening books to the New York Botanical Garden's library with the understanding that they might accession some and others would go into their book sale. Two friends left me their gardening books in their wills. One set never arrived (I remain dubious, many years later, about the lawyer.) The other - there were a few I was glad to have, there were duplicates I already had, there were others I had no interest in that went to NYBG. The one that brought me almost to tears was a copy of a book I had written, given to her, and rereading the inscription was sad. That book I made a second inscription and sent to my sister in Israel who had loaned the copy I originally gave her to someone who "lost" it. -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus/ _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…