Re: CAT:Springhill/Customer Beware
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- Subject: Re: CAT:Springhill/Customer Beware
- From: "* A* M* <w*@Ra.MsState.Edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 18:25:19 -0600 (MDT)
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Amy Rupp wrote:
>
> So TEMPLE BELLS is a bearded and you have no idea what the catalog's JI
> "TEMPLE BELLS" could be. It MOUNT FUGI is white and so is the picture,
> why wouldn't it be same variety?
>
> Devil's advocate here, I was slagging Spring Hell on the GARDENS-L and
> many came to their rescue.
>
> --
> Amy Moseley Rupp
> amyr@austx.tandem.com, Austin, TX, USDA zone 8b, Sunset zone 30
> *or* amyr@mpd.tandem.com
> Jill O. *Trades, Mistress O. {}
>
First of all, they are probably not growing these irises. They
are getting them from another source. Marie Caillet tells me that she has
a yard man who takes her excess LA's, propagates them, and sells them to
Park Seed and Wayside, but they do not name them. They just offer them in
mixed color collections, which is fine and violates no rules.
Earlier in the season when the misnamed Wal-Mart varieties were
blooming, I called Wal-Mart and they blamed the mis-named problem on their
unnamed growers. So, this practice seems to be wide-spread. Maybe, if
they get lots of complaints, they will get their plants from more reliable
sources.
Second, the variations in spelling bother me.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS 7/8
