Re: CULT: Store bought irises
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- Subject: Re: CULT: Store bought irises
- From: J* C*
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 15:45:42 PST
From: "Jan Clark" <janclarx@hotmail.com>
Leslie wrote:
>I heard that the big catalog co's buy up every left over iris they >can
at the end of the season from as many growers as they can. Then >they
group all the colors; all blue together all yellow together etc. >then
they pick out one blue name for the blues, one yellow name for >all the
yellows and etc.That's why once in a while you just might get >lucky and
get the right name on one. Of course, the other 99% are >misnamed!!
It's hard not to want to rescue them tho! They can >always be used in
the designs, since they can't be entered in hort.
Or, when you have too many, you could sell the extra to a big catalogue
company and they could sort them into different colours....
Jan Clark
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