TB: Cyberspace Pop Poll-- HISTORICS!!!!

From: <HIPSource@aol.com>

Mike Lowe offered an interesting opportunity to us all:

<< I can't help speculating: "What differences would we see between irisarians
on the internet and those who  have not yet succumbed to the lure of
cyberspace?... 
I have... put  together an electronic analogue of the paper AIS Symposium...
It, of necessity, is an exact copy of the 1999 AIS Symposium, however
time---and your inputs will heal that... it is available to any interested
irisarian anywhere in the world who has access to a computer and and internet
connection. I only have two pleas: 1. PLEASE vote and 2. Please  vote only
ONCE....You are encouraged to 'write-in' iris that you would like to see on
future  'Popularity Polls.' ...Your Poll inputs...will appear on a page in the
World Iris Society website. 

Oh yes, the Poll form can be found at: http://www.worldiris.com>>>>
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Now, I grow some moderns of course, but I could not help wondering about the
historics many of us still grow and love. I thought about fine some of them
are, and how useful they are for garden color when all that exalted hybrid
vigor of some of the new ones peters out. So I asked Mike about whether
writing in some favorite historics would screw it all up, and he said "NO",
that that might be very interesting. There are some historics on the Poll now,
of course, like CAMELOT ROSE and STEPPING OUT and DEBBIE RAIRDON, for example,
but what about some of the others? Might this be a grand opportunity to speak
for them? 

There are those who say that what's new in irises is better, and sometimes
that is correct. There are those who say the long great iris continuum is
nothing compared with the glorious iris present, and that is hooey, for they
are one and the same thing. And there are those who say the oldies had their
day in the sun and their day has past, a fact disproved in many gardens, and
along many sunny roadsides.

So, you growing and loving HELEN COLLINGWOOD, WABASH, QUAKER LADY, INDIAN
CHIEF, FLAVESCENS, GREAT LAKES, JEAN CAYEUX, ONE DESIRE, OLA KALA, MME
CHEREAU, PLUMERI, ELIZABETH NOBLE, WILLIAM A SETCHELL., JANE PHILLIPS, LENT A
WILLIAMSON, AMIGO"S GUITAR, MOONLIT SEA, MULBERRY ROSE, or some of the other
MANY distinguished TB stars of our international iris past?? Well, if you want
to vote for them, now you can. 

Regrettably, we still can't vote for anything but TBs. Moi thinks this is very
parochial and silly and needs to be fixed. 

Also, Mike tells me his gizmo is garbling up the write-ins received from the
World Iris Page, however, and so you should send him your list of write-
ins--ancient or modern-- directly to mlowe@worldiris.com as a personal note.
He's listening!

Anner Whitehead
Commercial Source Chairman
Historic Iris Preservation Society, AIS
HIPSource@aol.com

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