Re: CULT: Re Viruses

From: Jeanne Holley <irisarian@yahoo.com>

Arnold wrote:

What Vince Lewonski has said about MING DYNASTY is
certainly true
(virus makes spots in the falls, often penalized ad
shows) but I have
also heard judges say, "Oh, MD, of course it has the
spots.  But no
penalty to the exhibitor because it's always that way,
inherent in the
plant."   I have seen it with and without the spots,
and personally I
think it is more striking and attractive with them.  I
think there are
a couple other varieties that have the same viral
affliction (if it
really is an affliction) but for the life of me I
can't recall just now
what those might be, even though I have seen at least
one of them
someplace.  Meanwhile, I continue to grow MD, spots or
not, and would
not want to part with it.
Arnold

Jeanne Holley writes:

Arnold, I agree with you wholeheartedly.  I love Ming
Dynasty "with spots".  I wouldn't have it any other
way, because then it's just another golden yellow of
which there are multitudes.  It is distinctive and
reliable and it's one of those few Iris that I can
pick out the moment I see it with its spots.  I
believe that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and
if a virus enhances the beauty of a plant then more
power to it.  Where would the plant world be without
Rembrandt Tulips?  

I do show Iris and I have one hybrid that I plan to
introduce in the next year or two, but I will never be
a judge.  I have made place in my gardens for some
iris that would never stand up to the rigid
expectations for shows, but they have such beautiful
flowers that I cannot part with them.  I don't believe
that God ever made anything "ugly".  It's all in the
perspective.

Sincerely,

Jeanne Holley
irisarian@yahoo.com
Pocahontas MO  Zone 6 

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