Re: marketing

From: "Mark, Maureen" <MARKM@tc.gc.ca>

Thanks, Mike.  I was hoping that you'd speak up.  I thought that if anyone
was close, it would be you.  But I'm not sure that you'll get to an
everblooming TB for my zone in my lifetime.  There are only a dozen hybrid
tea roses that are truly hardy here.  In fact some avid rose gardeners treat
them as annuals.

I've been eyeing SEPTEMBER FROST.  Maybe I can convince Sandy to put in an
order this year.  Maybe we can go house (lot) hunting...

Maureen Mark
m*@ottawa.com
Ottawa, Canada (zone 4) -- where we have a winter storm warning in effect
and the iris are buried under almost five feet of the white mulch


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> From: 	Mike Sutton[SMTP:suttons@lightspeed.net]
> Reply To: 	iris-talk@onelist.com
> Sent: 	Thursday, January 14, 1999 11:59 AM
> To: 	iris-talk@onelist.com
> Subject: 	[iris-talk] Re: marketing
> 
> From: "Mike Sutton" <suttons@lightspeed.net>
> 
> Hi Maureen,
> We have arrived at everblooming plants in our climate, many have nice
> modern
> form with good color.  We are now strenuously working on iris that will be
> everbloomers from spring to frost in every zone.  From some of the advance
> reports around the nation we are getting there, but still have along way
> to
> go.  I think it will happen soon, (definitely in my lifetime)  many
> hybridizers are working on this concept, it is just a matter of time and
> possibly one of those "breakthrough" iris.  What we need is an
> everblooming
> iris with good form that consistently passes it's traits to it's
> offspring.
> Here September Frost seems to do this, the jury is still out elsewhere.  A
> plicata seedling, H51 is doing the same thing.  Soooo..... maybe with some
> time it will happen soon.
> Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark, Maureen <MARKM@tc.gc.ca>
> To: 'iris-talk@onelist.com' <iris-talk@onelist.com>
> Date: Thursday, January 14, 1999 7:15 AM
> Subject: [iris-talk] Re: marketing
> 
> 
> >From: "Mark, Maureen" <MARKM@tc.gc.ca>
> >
> >As I understand the history of the rose, this is how it got popularized.
> >The key is to work on the everblooming feature and then improve form etc.
> I
> >think we will get there.  The question is in whose lifetime.  It took
> quite
> >a long time to develop old roses into the modern everblooming hybrids.
> >
> >Maureen Mark
> >m*@ottawa.com
> >Ottawa, Canada (zone 4)
> 
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