Interesting conversation ?
Rather than a new book why don't you add a new layer and more information to the existing SIGNA database ? a bit like Wikipedia for Irises? You could ask experts to add published papers and articles, individual experience and photographs.
I would love to see more detail on each species.
Minimal cost ? pooled knowledge.
And another thing ?..
Are you aware that the following are available to view in pdf format on the website of the UK Group for Beardless Iris?
A Handbook of Garden Irises by William Rickatson Dykes (1924)
Dykes on Irises, part one - an anthology published after his death
http://www.beardlessiris.org/publications.html
I don't know if you all have access to copies?
Love reading your emails by the way! Pictures are great too!!
Madeleine
UK
--- In i*@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Moyles" <wmoyles@...> wrote:
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> Is there a recommended ref(s) to the genus ... taxonomy and
> descriptive/distribution/etc .... online or? Thanks ... I think I may
> be missing a good one ! Bill Moyles, Oakland ....
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