AIS: Convention-Surviving Dallas

	I didn't have the same experiences as Ellen or the Hostess of 
the Stately Guest Manor in getting to or coming from Dallas, but I 
think I am just as tired.

	I made the trip in my car in one sitting with one driver - 532 
miles over and 532 miles back.  My only problem was with finding 
the hotel as it was not the high rise I had expected and the sign 
was hidden by shrubbery.  I drove past it several times in the dark 
on Sunday night and just gave up on finding it and stayed at the 
Holiday Inn, which turned out to be only about four blocks from the 
convention hotel though I was told by the H I desk clerk the Crowne 
Plaza was a mile away.

	Anyway, it was a delight to meet many of the iris talkers and 
put a name to a face.

	The gardens were outstanding even though the incessant 
Texas winds were unkind particularly to photographers and the 
dreaded scorch was unkind to some guested irises, including my 
own.

	I would like to introduce the list to an upcoming hybridizer 
named Vincent Christopherson from Arlington, TX.  I met him and 
his irises in Joan Sanley's garden in the Haltom City suburb of Ft. 
Worth where he had guested a number of seedlings.  He has a 
brilliant yellow gold with the longest, frilliest horn you'll ever see.  
He also had a distinctive blue/white broken color iris with a red 
beard.  There were two clumps of this in the garden, and did they 
ever dazzle the visitors with their form, class, and distinctiveness.  I 
think we'll see these things on the market soon, and you'll begin to 
see the cultivar names on the awards ballot.  He has some winners!
	
	Oh, there was a fulva Louisiana called BAYOU BANDIT, by 
Weeks-Campbell that Dennis Kramb will surely love.  This was on 
view at Marie Caillet's.  It was a outstanding plant with what I 
thought was a different form from other fulvas.  You'll either love it or 
hate it because of its color which may make it the 'Thornbird of the 
Louisianas.'  You might call it dusty rose, but likely it is something 
else!


	VEGAS WEEKEND?  The President's Cup?  Where was it?  
Nobody at our table at the banquet saw it.  We liked TIM CLARK, 
fourth runner-up.  I agree on PENNY LANE for the Cook-out, 
wonderful iris.

	Was the expense, time,  fatigue worth it?  You betcha!

	Walter Moores
	Enid Lake, MS 7/8 USA

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