I have been scanning through articles found searching for "auxin". I have scanned about 200 articles so far. Many of the old timers, i.e. before the reasonable manufacture of synthetics, crushed their source and then autoclaved it to extract IAA. This might suggest answers to two questions. Some now suggest soaking their willow and others suggest boiling it. History seems to suggests that to get IAA the best procedure might be boiling. I have yet to search for procedures for extracting salicylic acid. Should the benefits of willow be salicylic acid I am still thinking that mastication is the route to go but I have yet to research whether one should boil it or soak it to recover salicylic acid.

"4. I have questions that a private investigator, probably, needs to help answer. My attorney is dragging his feet because he's not sure why I want answers. I wonder why he's not asking the same questions. How to manage when your style and your attorney's style differ ?" Not all attorneys are helpful. I don't know why the attorney is dragging his feet, but it might be because he doesn't have the answers, but doesn't want you to take your money elsewhere. I'd look for someone else. The following info might help. A link that might be useful: Selecting a Good Lawyer www.lawyers.com/lawyers/F~1001768~ LDS/HIRING+REAL+ESTATE+PROPERTY+LAWYER.html

To imbed images in your GardenWeb posts there are three steps: 1. Digitize photos 2. Upload pics to the internet (hosting site) 3. Link to the pics Digitize Many people have digital cameras, which automatically digitize their pics. You can also have your photos developed with a company which will save your pics onto a CD. There are other photo developing companies which will upload your pics onto an 'album' created for you on their web site. A last option is to scan your pics manually. Upload to the Internet Most of the free image hosting sites have disappeared but if you'll check the properties of a photo inserted into a GW message (place cursor on pic, select right mouse button, then select Properties> you can see which image hosting site that person uses. Another way to find image hosting sites is to do a search for "free image hosting". There are many free image hosting sites but very few allow direct linking - that is, allow your pic to appear from within a GW message. Once you've chosen an image hosting site you'll need to follow the instructions on that site to upload the images from your computer. Generally it involves creating a userID, creating albums, then navigating thru your computer to specify the location of the pic(s) you want to upload. Link GardenWeb allows HTML coding within the body of a message. The format of that HTML is: [img src=""] where you use less than symbols instead of the [ and ]. Type that exact code into your GW message but put the URL of your pic within the quotes.

Recently, someone here mentioned having trouble when trying to use the Houzz app to access GardenWeb forums. Someone on the Houzz staff was kind enough to let me know (several weeks after writing to them!) that the Houzz App does NOT work for GardenWeb forums! They said that the Landscape Design forum could only be accessed via the regular Internet channels when using a mobile device. Thought I would mention it so people could end their futile attempts to get here with the Houzz App.