Re: CAT: Bourdillon
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CAT: Bourdillon
- From: J* a* C* W*
- Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 22:19:08 -0700
From: "Jeff and Carolyn Walters" <jcwalters@bridgernet.com>
> From: hipsource@aol.com
> jcwalters@bridgernet.com writes:
>
> << Curiously, to the French eye the projection from the beard
> appears to be a spur rather than a horn. >>
>
> It is completely consistent with the avian imagery inthis case, though.
> 'Spur' as in 'spur' on a cock's leg.
Very patriotic as well, since the rooster is (or at least was in an earlier
incarnation of La Republique) the national bird of France.
>
> What do you make of that bizarre business in the FAQ about not planting
new
> irises with old irises because the latter will impede blooming in the
former?
Could this be a reference to the supposed tendency of irises that have been
grown in the same soil for an extended period of time to suppress the
growth of their own kind? Perhaps some of the older types are more virulent
in this respect (?). The reference seems to be to German iris, after all.
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4/5, Sunset Zone 2)
jcwalters@bridgernet.com
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