Re: CULT: BANBURY RUFFLES
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- Subject: Re: CULT: BANBURY RUFFLES
- From: z*@mindspring.com (L.Zurbrigg)
- Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 11:51:34 -0600 (MDT)
>Chrisy Hensler writes:
>
>> Marte,
>> I've got an iris called BR in the garden, but it's a SDB, not a PCN.
>> I'd be interested in finding out which one is the real BR.=20
>
>Christy and Marte,
>
>Marjorie Brummitt in England used the name of her home town, Banbury, as a
>prefix for many of her iris introductions, both PCNs and other types.
>However, BANBURY RUFFLES is not a Brummitt introduction. The 1979 Checklist
>provides the following information:
>
>BANBURY RUFFLES (D. Reath, introduced by Schreiners, 1970). SDB, 15", VE.
>Rich blue self with darker blue spot on F; ruffled. ("D. Reath" was Dr. D.
>L. Reath of Vulcan, Michigan).
>
>It looks like Christy has the correct article, but what Marte may have is
>an open question (there are 17 Brummitt PCNs with the "Banbury" prefix
>listed in the '79 Checklist alone).
>
>Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4, Sunset Zone 2)
>cwalters@digitalpla.net
Dear Friends: Just a point of interest: I was in a dwarf iris robin with
Dr. Reath, and recognized the name of the plant at once.Oddly, i had not
even thought of the Banbury series in England. Lloyd Z. in Durham NC
