Re: Found? Irises
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- Subject: Re: Found? Irises
- From: M* H* <M*@worldnet.att.net>
- Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 02:22:31 -0600 (MDT)
J. Griffin Crump wrote:
>
> And another possibility, Mark and Marte, is that it may have been a
> grave site. I have found irises on graves in Kentucky, Mark, where
> only a few gravestones from the mid-to-late-1800's were left. As I
> posted many months ago, this was a Turkish custom that was brought
> into Europe and may have transferred thence to America.
Oooh, Griff, I find your idea slightly unnerving since I dug up the
plants, but you may be onto something. I would never have thot of it
-- you must have written of the custom before I joined the List. I
*have* seen still-living plantings, tho not of irises, in old graveyards
in mountain ghost towns wherein the grave markers (mostly wood) have
long since disappeared. There certainly was nothing about this location
that suggested "burial site" to me. I suppose it could either have been
so long ago that nothing but the irises were left to see or the grave
was dug surreptitiously.
Rather hope your wrong about the possibility -- but don't think I'll go
dig further just to find out!
Marte in the mtns
Evergreen, Colorado
