My experience has been usually those with shorter inter nodal spaces root easier than those with long ones. The easiest moderns in memory have been Brown Velvet, Cardinal Hume, International Herald Tribune all rooted right down the line for years and years, as did Rochester Cathedral and Rachel Bowes Lyon. Minis in general; some Chinas; Teas can be problems; few HTs and floribundas have been difficult, though many which WILL root, don't always grow well own root. Generally, if the rose suckers easily, it is a pain to root. Also, generally, if the plant from which the cuttings are taken is quite old, particularly if it isn't in the greatest of shapes, it can be rather difficult to propagate. Once you get it to root, cuttings from the juvenile plant most often root quickly and easily compared to the parent plant. What Clair Martin always referred to as "reintroducing juvenility". Some root better at different times of the year. A nurseryman who used to post here and who shall remain nameless to prevent me from being sent to Disneyland, stated Mermaid roots best in September, at least in his climate. He hasn't been on the forums in years and years, but typing his name and trying to post the message continues to get you the threat of banishment. A lot of it depends upon your climate. Some depends upon the particular year. You'll find some years, NOTHING wants to root. Others, everything roots like weeds. Much depends upon what method you use at which time of year. It's all trial and error until you hit on what works for you when you want it to, and with which roses you wish to propagate. Kim

Yes, I have trouble with my lawn guys, too. They whacked off the top of my new sasafrass tree, right after I had pointed it out to them and ask them not to whack it down! So, now I'm waiting to see if it will still put out two stems, one of which will have to be air layered, so I can make a new leader out the other. Ah, well. I'm not going to let them mow the back yard at all. I like to keep the weeds agrowin' there, cause the butts love the wildness of it. They have all but crowded out any grass now. I have some really nice patches of white clover, which is the host plant for sulphurs and other butterflies, and I cut a wide swath around them when I am touring the yard so I won't step on any butterflies in the making. I also have lots of coniclinum coelistinum (Gregg's mistflower) growing there, and some other wildflowers I've yet to ID. Tons of dandelions, which are some of the first nectar plants to appear in spring. Tons of Queen Anne's Lace, and something that looks like a plaintain, but doesn't have the ribbed leaves like plaintain, so don't know what it is yet. Sprouts of Virginia Creeper, and a little heart-shaped plant that is growing either like a vine or a tree, but can't tell yet. Then another plant on which the new foliage is kind of a reddish-gold. There are these pretty little wild daisies in late summer that the butterflies LOVE! Something in the asteraceae family anyway. I wish I could get rid of the liriope back there. I just hate that stuff. My little pinellias are up - they are so cute, and I let them seed, so hopefully I'll get a huge patch of them. My Ariseaema triphyllum is up about 6" tall now; I guess the other one didn't make it. My arum italicum is looking so good. I love this plant because it is green all through winter (with the white mottling). I hope the acanthus mollis blooms this year. It sometimes doesn't, but is an architectural plant in and of itself. Blue Angel and Sum & Substance hostas are HUMONGOUS already. I really need to divide them. My 3rd year 'Titanic' is looking really, really beautiful! Has anyone noticed how bad slugs are this year? I have two little hostas that have been eaten to the ground already. My petasites is just looking awful in just the last week! Slugs! I have some DE but I just hate to use it right now because you have to put more down after every time it rains. After 5 years in an apparently "bad" location, I moved my cardiocrinum giganteum to a new spot in much more friable soil. It is up and the foliage looks so much better in the new space. I am hoping it will bloom in the next year or so now. I am getting flowers on my Aristolochia clematitus for the first time. This is their 3rd year in the ground. They are so tiny, and no noticeable odor at all. So cute! This is a great little plant - groundcover! Mediterranean, so it will take our hot summers. A. serpentaria is doing well, too, but I won't be getting more of it. It is said that it takes 25 plants of this to sustain one pipevine swallowtail. Oh, my Hops are up. I have one that is a golden variety, and it is gorgeous. It is growing by leaps and bounds, too. The first day, it was up about 2", the next 4", the next 6". I have to check today to see if it has eaten the shed it is planted next to. I have a clemmie (violaceae) in a 3" pot, and it is 3' tall. Think I should pot it up? LOL! Dawn, thank you for your encouragement in regard to my GD, Kenna. I hope she will have precious memories. I remember my grandmother who loved iris, and my great grandfather who loved 'tunies, or petunias. But, they never let me garden with them. That was back then, you know. Kenna loves to garden and she really loves to help collect the butterfly caterpillars and watch them grow. Susan

The label says it has 512 MB of memory. I'm not sure which memory this is referring to, but if it is the RAM on the motherboard, it could use an upgrade. Windows XP likes to have 2 Gigabyte (2 GB) or more. You are using a wireless router on a DSL sevice. Make sure that your wireless router is secured so that someone else within range can't horn in and ride piggyback on your connection for free. The more computers using the connection, the slower it gets for any one computer. The next potential bottle neck is the DSL service. If this is over a phone line, it may not be a large jump in speed over a standard dial-up service. A good connection does have marked improvement in speed, but a troublesome connection looses much speed advantge. Consider taking the computer to a shop or friend and try on their lines. Another problem, if over a phone line, is a noisy line. Thw phone company can test your phone line for quality. Make sure that you tell the technicam that this line will be used for internet service. If over a phone line, another bottleneck can be the phone company. It may not have installed equipemnt capable of high speed data transfer. If you have a friend who has a high speed cable connection with a wireless router, you may want to try your computer on his connection. Have the computer checked out at a computer shop to discover if it is the computer or the DSL service to your house.

Were these tiles adhered to concrete? If so, then the white powder around then may be simple salt deposits. You say some of the tiles were crushed...by what? I would not fret much about this. Get some sleep. Nothing can say that you put anything in the air, except maybe more testing. In fact, vinyl asbestos tile came off the US EPA banned product list. You didn't sand the stuff, so it is unlikely you put anything in the air. Sheet flooring can contain a mineral asbestos backing (white or cream in color) and you do have to be careful when removing that.