Re: OT-BIO: Linda Hylton
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  • Subject: Re: OT-BIO: Linda Hylton
  • From: &* H* <e*@mts.net>
  • Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:07:47 -0500
Welcome to you, Linda. Good luck with getting some of your Grandmother's iris back. It's great that you already know where some of them are. 

El, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Z3
AIS Region 16
----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Hylton" <elh3946@gmail.com> 
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 4:55 PM
Subject: [iris] OT-BIO: Linda Hylton
My husband and I have been fulltime RVers since 1998, but we recently bought a home and I am in the process of doing research on my grandmother's irises so 
that I can, hopefully, add many of them to our garden.  I came across this
group as a result of that research.
My grandmother was Melvina Suiter who was an iris hybridizer from the 1950's 
through the late 1980's.  Some of her irises are "Tomeco," "Orange Crush,"
"Orange Frills," and many others. Here's a website I came across that lists 
the iris she registered:
http://iris.onrussell.com/registrydetailh.asp?name=Suiter&B1=Submit
During the late 1970's and early to mid 1980's, we owned a home where we had planted many of my grandmother's iris; however, we had to leave them behind 
when my husband was transferred to another state.  We retired in the
mid-1990's and shortly thereafter started fulltiming, so I've never been in a 
position to have any more of my grandmother's iris until now.
An aunt has some of my grandmother's irises and will be dividing them later this summer. I've asked that she let me know when she's doing this so that we can bring back iris to our place. I'm not sure yet just which ones she has.
If anyone on this list has any information on any Suiter iris, or happens to 
have one in their garden, I'd be interested in hearing about it.

Linda Hylton
http://earl-linda.blogspot.com/

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