AIS black list - RHS color chart
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- Subject: AIS black list - RHS color chart
- From: I*@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 04:03:22 -0600 (MDT)
For those of you who have asked... back in the NON politically correct
1920's, the American Iris Society saw fit to publish a series of lists (at
least two), of irises that they considered no good! The recommendation was
that these irises be destroyed. Conversely (perversely?), this list is now a
collector's item, and so are the irises that are on it. People try to put
together a 'black list' historics bed.
The Royal Horticulture Society color charts are a reference for describing
color. There are hundreds of colors contained in it, each referenced to a
number. You will often see iris color descriptions followed by a number in
paraenthese... these are RHS color references.
Kathy Guest.... about to begin Day 3 in iris city
