HIST: Variegatas and Canada
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- Subject: HIST: Variegatas and Canada
- From: h*@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 13:43:58 EDT
Greetings.
Dan said:
<<On the 'coldzonegardens list' people were trying to identify an old
historic MTB variegata iris that is still commonly grown in Alberta, Canada.
I have grown the same or a very similar iris here in NW Ontario for twenty
years. I found this iris where it
had been growing in sod for many years at an abandoned homesite.>>
Last week I did an analysis of a list of 204 bearded pre-1940 irises that
were documented as having been planted in the parks of Calgary before that
date. When the dust finally settled into a 16 page memo to the inquiring
party, it was apparent that a wide variety of irises had made their way into
that part of Canada under a variety of names, many duplicate or illegitimate.
Many of the names appeared only once in some catalog, and a large number of
the names haven't been seen in print since the AIS Blacklist of the
'twenties. Of the lot, only half the irises are recorded as surviving in
HIPSrecords, and only half of those are common. Some were apparently
unregistered seedlings that came from Franklin Cook.
Academically speaking, that attractive old variegata, which does bear a
resemblance to some irises on the HIPS page in the small variegata section,
could be almost anything.
Anner Whitehead
Commercial Source Chairman
Historic Iris Preservation Society,AIS
HIPSource@aol.com
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