Re: CAT: Stockton? Now Rockytop

Hello Walter and Iris-l 
Just to let you all know that our catalog got hung up in the production
process (graphic artist and printers) it is now done and ready for mailing.
 Everyone on our mailing list should get it in there hands within the next
two weeks at the VERY latest.  It's a full size catalog this year with a
couple of different things in it, hopefully you all will like it.   
Sincerely Mike 
suttons@lightspeed.net

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> From: Walter A. Moores <wam2@Ra.MsState.Edu>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <iris-l@rt66.com>
> Subject: Re: CAT: Stockton? Now Rockytop
> Date: Sunday, April 19, 1998 8:09 AM
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Linda Mann wrote:
> 
> > Has anybody heard anything about Stockton?  Did they get washed away by
> > El Nino?  
> > 
> > I've gotten all the catalogs I ordered (and happily some I didn't!),
but
> > not theirs.  It seems to be later than usual, but I haven't noticed
when
> > it usually gets here.
> > 
> > Linda Mann east Tennessee USA
> 
> 	No, I haven't gotten Stockton.  Usually, theirs is the last one I 
> get but well worth the wait, I guess.  Sutton's Green Thumber hasn't come

> yet either, come to think about it.
> 
> 	Yesterday's mail brought the catalog from Rockytop (Phil
> Williams).  There is a very interesting write-up on THORNBIRD, and I will

> quote the most interesting part.  This is Phil writing, not me..."And...
> the picture on the front cover of the A. I. S. BULLETIN is not
> (underlined)... I repeat...not (underlined) THORNBIRD!"
> 
> 	Remember back in October when this picture of THORNBIRD appeared,
> it stirred up a lot of comment and many (including myself) could not
> identify the cover picture.
> 
> 	Also, in his descriptions of many irises Phil comments that the
> judges failed to vote for many worthy varieties because the judges were
> napping. I don't think this tells the entire story.  Many good irises
lack
> distribution, and it is the hybridizers' fault for not sending their
> introductions to the conventions and regionals and even dealers.  Judges
> who spend their hard-earned money to go to conventions and regionals will
> see the good ones.  It is up to the hybridizers to get the irises where
> they will be seen by the most judges.  I looked in last years Detroit
> Convention book, and many of these unrewarded varieties were not listed
so
> how can they be winners of AIS awards if they are not sent to conventions
> and viewed where the most judges congregate? 
> 
> 
> 	This post represents my own observations and is not a critique
> of the Rockytop catalog or a criticism of my good friend Phil.  In fact,
> my order is ready to mail tomorrow!
> 
> 
> 	Walter Moores
> 	Enid Lake, MS 7/8
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