Thanks, everybody, for your comments. I ended up emailing Sophie Hodorowicz Knab, who writes for the Buffalo-based Polish-American Journal, and is the author of a fascinating little book called Polish Herbs, Flowers & Folk Medicine. Much to my delight, she responded to my inquiry. Here's what she had to say: Hi Cecilia! Thak you for owning my book! I appreciate the support. My book on herbs was not all inclusive as a publisher imposes page limitations but I looked up komosa on a Polish website and indeed, it exists and very likely what you are looking for. If you keep scrolling down on the website you will see that there are two types of komosa: komosa biala(chenopodium album) and komosa strzalkowa (chenopodium bonus-henricus). The leaves of both are edible and native to Europe. The people of Poland foraged the land and were expert at finding herbs and plants to eat especially during times of famine and hardship. It's wonderful that you have this wonderful memory of your family. Plant it in your garden as a memory to your family and heritage. Best of luck to you. Sophie Hodorowicz Knab Here is a link that might be useful: Polish plant website showing Komosa

Ravencajun, even that site refuses to open for me, thanks anyway. I got smart and told the group whose web site I am doing to download it themselves then they do not need to give me the password to their email address. Problem solved. MSN, I too get curious about how those offering web counters earn money. They need the hits returned to them so they can evaluate the times on pages and new or returning hits for us to analyse so we have little choice. Having used them for a few short years I have found no reason to give them up regarding Spam or the like and they do provide valuable feedback.

liz h, A number of the foreign agencies (a major one being the Government of China) that hold U.S. debt now are holding U.S.-issued bonds. The U.S. issuers will be required to pay off those bonds at maturity in U.S. Dollars, of course. The reference that I made, but did not indicate, in the part to which you refer was in situations where U.S.-based agencies made borrowings denominated in the foreign currencies, which would need to be repaid in those (at that time more expensive) currencies. But this does not happen often. When much of the U.S.-issued debt is held within their country, there is less risk of detrimental effects if confidence in the currency falls, as many are disinclined to move money abroad. There are deeper problems for the U.S. issuers when foreign entities hold large amounts of their debt, for they are much more inclined to dump the U.S. debt and put their money elsewhere. In such a case, when the U.S. issuers issue new debt, if the issues are at former rates, knowledgeable lenders won't buy them, fearing that the value of the bonds may drop and they'll lose part of the value of their principal, down the road. Which requires that the issuers offer substantially higher rates of interest, in order to have this new issue of the bonds be fully subscribed. But - when current interest rates go up, say to 7%, lenders who had bought a bond issued earlier, paying, say 5%, will sell it on the secondary market, in order to buy one of the new bonds. He won't find any buyers of his bond at full value, however - for they don't want to earn only 5% any more than he does. So the only way that the holder of a $100. bond paying 5% can sell it is to be willing to accept $95. - $98., depending on how long term there is until that bond matures. The rule for this is: when interest rates go up, the price of dollar-denominated assets go down. Considering that the U.S. government carries a huge debt load now ... and is going deeper in debt each year because they're spending more than the income that they're generating, added to which they're putting a substantial number of tax cuts in place, a number of money management experts are growing increasingly concerned that the future value of the U.S. Dollar is in jeopardy. Even though a much larger proportion than formerly of the total U.S. debt instruments these days that is held by foreign agencies can be paid off in U.S. Dollars, even though their value has shrunk, the risk that they may not want to buy more U.S. bonds in future because they fear more of the same is very real. Even more so because many believe that the U.S. is printing a lot more money, these days - which puts the continued stable value of each one of those dollars at risk, into the bargain. Sorry to be the bringer of less than happy news. ole joyful

You can try Peter Keeping from the Ontario Rock Garden and Hardy Plant Society. You will have to pick it up from his home in East Toronto OR at the Peterborough Garden Show: http://www.onrockgarden.com/news/clematises-peter-keeping I believe this Clematis is listed in his 2017 availability list. You can also email your request to Peter via info@onrockgarden.com and Carol of the ORGHPS will forward your request to Peter.