Some internet watchdog programs are indeed unnecessarily sensitive. I had to edit a message describing a garden in Istanbul because a New Zealand library couldn't receive it as originally posted. One of the trees mentioned was the black mulberry, Morus nigra. I think it is mainly trees that are named with this offensive word: Betula, Fraxinus, Juglans, Populus, Quercus,Salix, Sambucus, Pinus. (oh, that reminds me - we had a problem with the last-named also). I can't think of any bulbs considered black, so I guess we don't have to resort to what Victorian books did - Ornithogalum n___. Diane Whitehead