Re: HYB: CULT: Essig

From: z88keys@mindspring.com (L.Zurbrigg)

>From: Linda Mann <lmann@icx.net>
>
>In the front of the 1939 checklists, in the biography of Essig, it says
>he was interested in scientific breeding and selection for hardiness.  I
>notice that SHINING WATERS, which shows up in ancestry of more than one
>of my better performers here, is an Essig iris.
>
>Does anybody know of other Essig introductions?
>
>Does anybody grow any Essig irises in the lands of rollercoaster
>freeze/thaws flood/droughts?
>
>Linda Mann east Tennessee USA
>Dear Linda:  SIERRA BLUE was very widely grown in Canada when I first got
>into irises. It is very tall, and a rather good shade of blue for its
>time. Lloyd Zurbrigg in Durham NC. where I have four blooms on FEBRUARY
>GOLD daffodil.
>











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