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Re: Sans.grandis rosea

At 02:28 PM 11/25/99 -0500, Stephen M Jankalski wrote:
>Dear Hermine,
>
>Which "Her" is that?
>
>Ruth Crane, Lilian True, Norma Lewis or Herr Werner Rauh?
>
>I thought you said Ruth Crane made up the name?


Indeed, she did not; i did. i sent the first propagule to Ruth Crane.
Lilian never met Ruth Crane, but Lilian lived about a 20 minute drive from
my home, and we saw each other often.  i think Ruth Crane re-named Lilian
True 'Slipped Stripes' is what i think.  I cannot remember if i sent any
Lilian True to Glasshouse works...I mean, i can remember that i did, if i
think about it, and then, i cannot really say on a witness stand under oath
that i REALLY remember.  In the beginning i used to give Lilian True to
people who were plant nuts, variegation nuts.

I first saw this plant in the middle of Lilian True's living room. I made
serious efforts to fine out where she got it, because she said, hmmmmm,
either it just happened here, or else i got the plant from so and so. but
all the people she thought she got if from, claim they got theirs from HER.
I found her guilty of having a living room mutation, and in any case, named
it and printed it out in a catalog, described and named for her. It is her
piece of posterity.
She was a great person, i miss her very much.

hermine
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