Re: AIS: Quapaw's daddy (was CULT: What's in a name? Red)
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- Subject: Re: AIS: Quapaw's daddy (was CULT: What's in a name? Red)
- From: c* s* <s*@aristotle.net>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 21:36:58 -0500
From: celia storey <storey@aristotle.net>
Walter writes:
>Perhaps, one of the
>greatest and most overlooked brownish reds is QUAPAW (named for an Indian
>tribe in Arkansas) by Richard Butler of Little Rock.
What a delight to read praise for the eminently praiseworthy Dick Butler.
For those of you who don't know this excellent man, he's a longtime member
of the Central Arkansas Iris Society, a retired lawyer and banker, husband
to the inimitable Gertie Butler and a humorous, generous civic leader. Last
year he underwrote development of an Arkansas archives and geneaology
center for the Central Arkansas Library System, now called the Butler
Center.
Dick has also done daffodil hybridizing and is a big name in that national
society.
Tom Dillard, assistant RVP for Region 22 and a member of Iris-L (don't know
if he's made the jump to onelist) is chief archivist for the Butler Center.
Last year Tom registered I. cristata DICK BUTLER, a selection of the wild
crested iris which is notable for heavy flowering.
I grow Dick's TB MAUMELLE, which is a large, very fragrant purple self. The
standards flop as the flower ages, but that fragrance is divine.
For LA fanciers, GERTIE BUTLER is a good garden plant, quite popular in
these parts.
celia
s*@aristotle.net
Little Rock, Arkansas, USDA Zone 7b
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257 feet above sea level,
average rainfall about 50 inches (more than 60" in '97)
average relative humidity (at 6 a.m.) 84%.
moderate winters, hot summers ... but lots of seesaw action in all seasons
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