Re: Variegatas
Hotmail wrote:
>
> << what
> do we do with those that are a medley of several colors and not just
> two? >>
>
> Can we call them calicos? It seems the logical step since most of us are cat
> lovers. <g>
>
> In Australia we call tri coloured cats 'tortoiseshell' or simply 'torties'.
Same here.
> If Linda can come up with 'Umbrata' and have it catch on (with or without the 'r' :-), maybe we can manage to get a new name started for multicoloured irises?
Why not?
Gerry
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Gerry Snyder, AIS Symposium Chair, Region 15 RVP
Member San Fernando Valley, Southern California Iris Societies
in warm, winterless Los Angeles
my work: helping generate data for: http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov/
