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To: Boplicity who wrote (19069)	11/23/2000 12:02:37 PM
From: jjkirk	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 65232

What will come out of the mess as the correct areas to invest in? Don't encourage me, Greg, I'm a weak reed to lean on, but here's my hipshot. Let's think about tulip bulbs...not "Dutch" tulips, but just tulip bulbs that, when I lived in Virginia, I buried this time of year in anticipation of having spring beauty in almost unexpected places...these tulip bulbs were not cheap, so I could not afford to plant as many as I wanted. Now daffodils were inexpensive and I could afford to plant several daffodil beds...they were pretty, but all yellow, not the striking beauty that we enjoyed in unexpected variety from the tulips when they emerged in the spring. The combination of political, market, and personal storms that have swirled down on us have culminated in the "perfect" storm....to plant other than tulips or daffodils at this time would be like setting out tomato plants in Buffalo. These tomato plants may have come from the finest strains, have been nurtured by the most careful nursery, have been marketed by the most reputable distributor, and have been the most sought after, tender, sweet variety of tomato ever, but there ain't no way these plants will survive the "Buffalo winter" gripping the market today. What's the lesson here...in this weather, only invest in plants and stocks that have a built-in, ready source of food (capital); are not killed by being buried in the ground, cut off from sunshine (up-channel and down-channel); and, can grow from within with only a modicum of water and warmth until the spring sun and rain warms and wets the ground and causes these self-reliant beauties to poke out of the ground . Then the danger is that the spring market will come along with a Briggs and Stratton and mow your bulb blades down to the level of the grass (a la Gritch Greenspan)...bulb plants also will need warmth and sunshine, water and protection against the milder spring storms, yet the potential rewards are great...anticipated, yet unexpected beauty that makes all that digging and planting last winter worthwhile...our own little Gorilla Game with bulbs...'cept we have have some cheap ones, consistently pretty, but ordinary daffodils (WMT?, etc.), and some expensive ones, explosively striking color and variety tulips (QCOM?, etc.) All we have to do is go down to the garden market...and figure out which are tomato plants, which are tulips, which are daffodils...Hell, Greg, what could be simpler than that?..........jj