Re: CULT: Re Viruses
From: Gullo <tgf@frontiernet.net>
Hi Jeanne,
I think many of us who hybridize keep plants around that we would
never plan to introduce simply because they are pleasing to us. I know that
my own hybridizing efforts are a selfish pursuit. Don't know if I will ever
get around to introducing anything , because that is not the focus of my
hybridizing.
Michael Gullo
West Walworth , N.Y.
Jeanne Holley wrote:
> 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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