Re: White Wall Tire
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- Subject: Re: White Wall Tire
- From: "* N* <s*@ce.net>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 19:27:48 -0400
Norm,
Thanks so much for your postings with details on different hostas.
Its a great service.
Dan Nelson
Bridgeville DE
zone 7
-----Original Message-----
From: Lesch, Norman A. <nalesch@missi.ncsc.mil>
To: 'Hosta-Open' <hosta-open@mallorn.com>
Date: Thursday, August 20, 1998 6:52 AM
Subject: RE: White Wall Tire
>
>Mike,
>
>Here is the info I have on it:
>
>Hosta 'White Wall Tire'
>(Avent 95)
>Origin: Hybrid of H. 'Out House Delight'
>16" tall, 44" wide.
>AHSJ V27-1,V25-2 inside front cover.
>Creamy white-green speckling (virdescent) rippled margin.
>Tony Avent: "H. 'White Wall Tire' has a new type of streakiness...perhaps
>we should call it frosting, that has not been seen in hostas before."
>
>I haven't gotten the supplement yet. What is he asking for it?
>And of course H. 'Out House Delight' is the fertile seedling of the sterile
>H. undulata. I just received H. 'Out House Delight' in the mail yesterday
>from Plant Delights. At this stage it isn't as ugly as he claims. The old
>growth is all green now with rippled margined narrow leaves and the new
>growth coming up around it white with green speckling. Can't wait to start
>hybridizing with it next year.
>
>Has anyone planted seeds from H. 'Out House Delight' yet?
>What are your results?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Norm Lesch
>Manchester, MD
>
> ----------
>From: Mike Groothuis
>To: hosta-open@mallorn.com
>Subject: White Wall Tire
>Date: Wednesday, August 19, 1998 6:46PM
>
>I just recieved T. Avent's plant Fall supplement catalog in the mail
>today, What is this hosta? Does anyone have a picture?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Mike Groothuis
>Niles MI
>zone 5b
>
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