Re: HYB: CULT: Essig
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- Subject: Re: HYB: CULT: Essig
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- Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 18:01:27 -0600
From: "Steve Rust" <srust@fidnet.com>
We have grown EASTER MORN (from the 1996 HIPS Sale) for a few years now.
It is a small plant, and we have coddled it. It didn't bloom in 1997, but
did in 1998. It seems very delicate and has never been very vigorous here.
Cindy Rust, Zone 5B
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> From: Linda Mann <lmann@icx.net>
> To: Iris-talk <iris-talk@onelist.com>
> Subject: [iris-talk] HYB: CULT: Essig
> Date: Sunday, January 31, 1999 3:37 PM
>
> 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
>
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