41.   Most bulbs are flowers and are some of the easiest plants to grow for the beginner.

42.   My suspicion is that your bulbs were on the small end of the size range.

43.   Most crocus bulbs are like candy to rodents.

44.   Ornamental allium bulbs are part of the onion genus, the first plants to be domesticated by man.

45.   Other than giving you arthritic and low-back pain in the fall, bulbs are wonderfully low maintenance.

46.   Philips Lighting Co. of Somerset, New Jersey, is urging the EPA to require the bulbs be recycled.

47.   Prices are low but bulbs are sometimes small and mislabeled.

48.   Repeat each year until the bulbs are at least the size of ping pong balls, by which time they should be ready to flower.

49.   Some bulbs are much better at being gently persuaded than others.

50.   Some bulbs are regional favorites.