Re: HIST--VAN NAME, 1928
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- Subject: Re: HIST--VAN NAME, 1928
- From: m*@tricities.net (Mike Lowe)
- Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 14:30:05 -0600 (MDT)
Anner asks...
>Anybody know anything interesting about a bearded iris called VAN NAME from
>1928?
>I have no idea who grew it, nor have I heard of the cultivar or
>the hybridizer, also called Van Name.
It absolutely does not show on the radar. I thought it may have been one of
the items which did not survive the cut from the 1929 'Check List' to the
1939 'Check List.'
Ethel Anson Peckham did a MAJOR rewrite, correction, addition, deletion
etc., when she produced the 1939 'Check List.' It was her chance to 'do it
right' after critiques (criticism!?!) of the 29 effort. In better than 99
44/100s she achieved this -- the 39 'CL' contains fewer errors than any
subsequent volume -- this due primarily to having a decade of discussion
and feedback to clean it up. There were 12,000 entries in the 29, nineteen
thousand in the 39, much of the addition material was errata, update, etc.
The 20s were busy but they sure didn't introduce 10,000 iris!
However, VAN NAME doesn't seem to be A NAME.
Cheers,
Mike Lowe mikelowe@tricities.net http://www.tricities.net/~mikelowe/
http://www.worldiris.com
Whose '2 guys in a garage' ISP did not pay the phone bill and Bell Atlantic
pulled their plug. Thank goodness for a 'freeby' ISP which can be spoofed!
