X. violacium.

From: "Julius Boos" ju-bo at email.msn.com> on 2000.03.08 at 22:51:15(4187) Dear Les, Noted your posting yesterday on the price of the rhizomes of X. violacium that you bought at somewhere over $3.00/lb. Today I had cause to buy some to send to a friend, and at my Jamaican 'contact' grocery they were going for $1.10/lb., I bought three for .99 cents, and he said he was sorry that they were so expensive!!! Just thought I`d share this with a friend so that you can eat your heart out!!! Good growing and cheers, Julius Boos +More ju-bo@msn.com West Palm Beach, Florida

From: Lester Kallus lkallus at earthlink.net> on 2000.03.10 at 00:36:37(4195) I suspect that financial difference doesn't stop at groceries. Check our restaurants, grocery stores and nurseries and you'll find everything obscenely expensive up here. Remember a discussion a while back? I pay $3.50 to $4.00 for one pistia whereas you're throwing hundreds onto a compost pile. So I'm not surprised - still at $3.50 a pound or $1.10 a pound, those xanthosomas are a fine bargain. Les +More At 04:51 PM 03/08/2000 -0600, you wrote: >share this with a friend so that you can eat your heart >out!!!

From: "Julius Boos" ju-bo at email.msn.com> on 2000.03.11 at 03:38:57(4205) Dear Les, You are correct about that!! The people I do landscaping for at P.B. Polo often comment on how reasonable the plant prices are here in Florida compared to 'up North', then these same people will complain about paying $10.00 for a 3 gal. established and flowering plant, installed with slow release fertilizer!!! I urge members to search out ethnic groceries in their neighborhoods and towns, I often find Aroid and other 'treasures' in the Vietnamese, Indian and Jamaican ones here in W.P.B., both for the palette and garden. I recently paid just a couple bucks for a LARGE tuber of Amorphophallus paeoniifolius out of a carton of others being sold as food at 'my' local Indian Grocery!!!!!!!!! Good growing, Cheers, Julius +More ju-bo@msn.com >>I suspect that financial difference doesn't stop at groceries. Check our restaurants, grocery stores and nurseries and you'll find everything obscenely expensive up here. Remember a discussion a while back? I pay $3.50 to $4.00 for one pistia whereas you're throwing hundreds onto a compost pile. So I'm not surprised - still at $3.50 a pound or $1.10 a pound, those xanthosomas are a fine bargain. Les<<

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