If you want to learn about Virus Indexing, google ELISA + plant + test + assay. The test's name is E.L.I.S.A. and last I heard there were eight different rose viruses that could be tested. There are kits or the test can be done by the folks who developed the kits. I know Appalacahian took roses to be tested. There are two sources for roses that have been through heat treatment to remove the viruses known (seen by visual inspection, roses that failed to stay clean when grafted onto a particular cherry stock or onto a very susceptible rose stock). J&P used to have a heat treatment facility; it's been closed for several years. Malcolm Manners in Floriad has heat treated a number of old roses and has shared his cleaned plants with a number of nurseries. UCDavis also maintains blocks of certain roses and rootstocks that are tested and are kept free of viruses. There are some other schemes for cleaning up roses and other plants, but they are in the scientific reporting stages. (Like cellular propagation of apical meristems into which the viruses are slower to move...theoretically.)

I'm not entirely sure why but nobody ships to Western Australia. My guess would be quarantine but I really have no idea. I found this in seconds via google. Might be a good start and they are based locally. Here is a link that might be useful: http://miatiabromeliads.com.au/contact.htm

""demonstration" price for designers-" not called this but there is a program. There is also a display program which is entirely different. It is not to be used as a sale incentive, Miele would be very upset if they found you were selling to customers uner that setup. Now, designers can do what they want it's a free country, and I'm sure some do. BTW , the number isn't that great anyway, not even 20%. Nola - I find IW's "list" price disingenious at best, no one I know of sells at that price, everyone I know of just sells at the UMRP and calls it a day. Maybe that's cause we only deal with high end outfits who don't play in the mass market on sale today move em outa here appliance market. They give you their best price that allows them to keep the lights on, eat, and invest in training. I'm still extremely curious about your SPECIFIC pricing and models from IW. 10k may or may not be a deal - hard to say since yo seem to have entered muddy water territory while shopping. I can tell you very quickly and unbiasedly whether you got a deal or not. I'm sorry dealing with the locals is tough and unpleasant. Did you bring this up with them while shopping and give them a chance to stop playing games? If they continued to be smug and charge above UMRP then they didn't deserve your business. But to accuse a smallish local outfit of being poor businessmen because they chose not to sell you and item below their agreement with a manuf. and at a fiscal loss to them is plain self-serving.

Okay, it sounds as if you just want a house with a front elevation that looks very similar to the Southern Living plan but which would have the interior rearranged so significantly that it would be an entirely new plan. If so, your local architect would only be using the image of the Southern Living plan as "inspiration" for the front elevation and would probably not be infringing copyright - unless he made the front of the house look identical to the SL plan. So maybe you don't really need to purchase a license to the SL plan after all. But it sounds as if your local architect doesn't "get it" even after seeing your inspiration picture. Perhaps you need a different architect. Or is is possible that the room arrangement you want simply won't fit into a farmhouse with a tall narrow front elevation (which is a good part of the charm of the SL plan). If you want a house that is tooooooo big, or you want too many rooms facing either the front or the back views, then your architect probably keeps winding up with something that is broader than it is tall... and therefore cannot possibly be made to look like the elevation you picture. I had a friend who once insisted that she wanted a nice compact basically rectangular one-story "cottage." But then she started describing all the rooms that just had to have a view of the lake on one side of her property and it quickly became obvious to me that there was no possible way to meet her desires. Her vision of the interior was just incompatible with her vision of the exterior. Ultimately she wound up building a long thin boom-a-rang shaped home that was mostly one room deep. It looked nothing at all like the "little cottage" she originally THOUGHT she wanted but every major room in the house has a view of that lake and it is a gorgeous home. If your interior floor plan vision isn't totally incompatible with your exterior inspiration picture, there is probably already a farmhouse design out there somewhere that comes close to meeting your needs and, when finished would look similar to the SL plan. Why don't you post your "program" (how many bedrooms? baths? garage bays? master upstairs or down? laundry upstairs or down? open plan kitchen/great room or not? office? media room? playroom?) here on GW? Maybe someone here will know of a perfect or near perfect plan that could be modified more easily than the SL plan. I know that finding the perfect plan is very difficult and when you hire an architect and he doesn't seem to be able to "get it", it can be extremely frustrating. BTDT, so you have my sincere sympathy.