Historic Iris
- To: i*@rt66.com
- Subject: Historic Iris
- From: K*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 08:16:18 -0400
Nell and others;
The HIPS Convention is scheduled for early June, 2000, in cool, friendly
Albany NY, with visits to gardens between here and Syracuse one day, and
visits in the Albany area the morning of the second day. We've got an
excellent quote on rooms and food from a very nice hotel just 5 minutes from
the airport, and we'll be using a bus company that is dependable and very
well-liked in the tour business here in the NE.
Bus rides the first day will be long, but we're hoping to coax our HIPS
experts to give us some mini-seminars during the ride, live or by video, on
photography, cultivar ID, history of great hybridizers, etc. Having some of
our extensive NY archival (old catalogs and books) material available for
perusal on the buses is another possibility.
Gardens will include a Cooperative Extension that will also have the peonies
of A.P.Saunders, a Reg. 2 RVP; a beautifully landscaped commercial iris
garden; and the country garden of a mother-daughter team who grow irises to
rival the size of Schreiner's stuff.
This fall we're going to try to kick off projects that when finished will
show attendees the wonderful contributions NY has made to the iris world.
We're the home of Randolph, Cassebeer, and McGarvey, to just name a few NYers
who have made contributions to the iris world.
Within AIS we hope to work with the main convention and Siberian section
convention folks to showcase historic beardless cultivars we can't have in
bloom here in early June.
We hope to make 2000 a year for the record books in AIS!
Kathryn Mohr, near Albany NY
kemohr@aol.com
