Re: Iris in Van Bourgondien

Bill Shear wrote:
> 
> >Boycott Van Bourgondien and Michigan Bulb Company.  And tell all new members
> >that you can.  Its pot-luck with those Companies with what you will get.
> >Buyer beware.       John Coble at Ensata Gardens.
> 
> I have to take slight issue with John.  I wouldn't order anything from VB
> that I could tell was mislabelled from their catalog, but I do order from
> them regularly, twice a year, and have been doing so for more than a
> decade.  In all that time, I've only gotten one mislabelled plant: 'Fuschia
> magellanica' turned out to be an ordinary garden fuschia.  They cheerfully
> refunded.  In this case the catalog picture was of magellanica, but the
> plants weren't.  Evidently this is a hazard when foriegn companies import
> en masse from Holland, where some growers are not very scrupulous about
> what they send out.
> 
> But as for Michigan Bulb Company...well, we've been through all that.  They
> are the nadir of the bulb business!
> 
> I also forgot to add that VB no longer pictures a regeliocyclus hybrid as a
> Spanish iris, perhaps in response to letters from iris folk.
> 
> Bill Shear
> Department of Biology
> Hampden-Sydney College
> Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
> (804)223-6172
> FAX (804)223-6374
> email<bills@hsc.edu>
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