I was just skimming the posts above, and i caught your coment of the dutch using the foot to use for bulb fields, and as a true cloggie, i can tell you that at least in this area, it is not true, you've been misinformed. The dutch are metric, they use meters (meter is the dutch word, awfull similar to the american/english, isn't it!)and we plant by meter.

as to another odity, in america i believe you have road signs saying "soft berm" (and please correct me if i'm wrong here!), but do you know what the dutch ecquivelent is? Zachte (soft) berm - so who stole who'se word? and if you check out a dutch eetcafe (eating cafe, a kinda dark and dingy bar, with the floor full of peanut shels) you will find that america has bars that are quite similar.. not everywhere, i'll grant you, but they are there..

That was my two cents (dutch cents.. cents coming from the word hundred again.. )

Debbie