Janet, could you post this to Iris Lovers on Facebook? There was a
recent discussion on historic iris.

Betty Wilkerson
Zone 6 KY
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From: AIS Janet Smith g*@gmail.com>
To: Iris-Photos i*@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: Jr.Wayne C. Smith w*@bellsouth.net>; Robert Howell
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Sent: Mon, Jan 28, 2013 11:05 pm
Subject: [iris-photos] Robert D. Howell, Col USAF (Ret.) looking for Wm
Mohr irises---

Hello, here is hoping someone can assist this Ret. Col. in
findingÂWilliam Mohr irises to add to his collection.
If you can help let him know.
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Thank you,
Janet Smith
California
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Robert Howell f*@att.net>
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>> From: Robert Howell f*@att.net>
>> Date: January 28, 2013, 3:21:10 PM EST
>> To: " Jr.Wayne C. Smith" w*@bellsouth.net>
>> Subject: Iris from 1930's
>>
>>
>> Dear Sir:Â To introduce myself - I am a retired AF Col. and live in
>Batesburg. Moved here in 2010 after 36 years as an antique dealer
>following
>24 years as an AF pilot. As a younster growing up in NW Iowa, I had
>some
>Aunts who raised iris and they gave me one when I was probably about
>10 (born
>in 1929 and currently 83) . It was a Wm. Mohr and I entered one of
>the blooms
>in a local flower show and won a 1st prize. I have always wanted to
>have
>another, but a military life didn't help to set out iris bulbs.
>Anyway, I
>have been trying to find one of the growers that might still have a
>Wm. Mohr.
>Had one from Calif., ;but lost the paper work and they didn't publish
>a
>ctalog. So tried thru the Historicaql Iris Society and that is a
>very
>difficult web site to navigate to found a name - Jeff Walters who was
>listed
>as the Commercial lead man and he lived like a neighbor in
>Spartanburg so
>called and got him.ÂÂ He said he had been out of that job for nearly
>2 years
>and recommended I contact you in my effot to find a grower that still
>raised
>Wm. Mohn. If you can be any assistance in that regard, please drop
>me an
>E-mail. Any help you can give will be appreciated. Robert D.
>Howell, Col,
>USAF (Ret.)
>

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Janet Smith
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