Re: TB: Unidentified Historics

From: "Michael D. Greenfield" <redear@infinet.com>

This subject has been brought up before, Do a search on "farm findings."
Abandoned is not a word to be used  for an excuse for stealing. You should
get permission before digging plants from lands that you do not own. 

My $.02  worth
Mike Greenfield
redear@infinet.com
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> From: S&C Rust <srust@fidnet.com>
> To: iris-talk@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [iris-talk] TB:  Unidentified Historics
> Date: Saturday, May 29, 1999 7:33 PM
> 
> From: "S&C Rust" <srust@fidnet.com>
> 
> Anner and others interested in unidentified historics.  The saga of the
> light yellow unidentified TB continues...it was still blooming during our
> ride into the conservation area of Little Indian Creek.  The unidentified
> small TB colored like Frosted Velvet was done for.  But, blooming right
in
> the middle of a long row of the yellow (Flavescens?), just in one spot,
> clear as the nose on your face, was the historic MTB, Tidbit!  I am very
> familiar with this one, as I have grown it for three or four years now.
> 
> Back to the cemetary to scout for iris that might possibly be growing
with
> the huge clumps of double white peonies, but still no luck.  I had a lead
on
> part of a homestead near a new trail just opened up, so I took our little
> hapless band of horseback riders in search of it.  The cemetary is set
high
> on a hill, but at the foot of that hill and just around the corner in a
> small meadow I found the remains of a large wooden barn, just collapsed
on
> the ground.  The grass was quite high around it and I looked in vain to
see
> if there was a foundation or not.  It was old, but I doubt it was as old
as
> 1852, because the roof was of rusted tin.  I have been reading about the
> early history of Missouri, and learned that this area was used for
> timbering.  Much to my surprise, I learned that Missouri's first attempts
at
> public road building involved laying planks for the road!  Of course,
they
> rotted and warped and the whole thing was a fiasco.  But, perhaps that
was
> the reason for the little cemetary being there in the first place.  We
> continued past the wreckage of the barn, checking for other foundations
and
> iris.  We did not see any more cultivated flowers.  We saw many pale pink
> roses with single petals that sent up a heavenly scent combined with the
> wild honeysuckle and tall pine trees (unusual for pines to be in this
area;
> mostly oak and cedar).  We saw nothing more until we popped out on a
county
> road that I used to ride on a lot as a girl.  Then, as we rode along that
> road, we saw more iris; mostly the pale yellow ones, again.  But once, we
> identified Mme Chereau (spelling?) putting up the stray late season
> bloomstalk, and we also saw little Honorabile in a few scattered places. 
I
> think I will go back and collect a few rhizomes of the pale yellow
growing
> abandoned beside the road and bring them home.  I should be able to get a
> better i.d. on them when I can observe them closely and at leisure for a
few
> years.  We passed through many areas being abandoned by the county and
which
> nature was already busy reclaiming; closed concrete slabs that were
> collapsing, fields no longer cultivated, etc.  There is a lot of water
> around, creeks, ponds, deep ditches.  I keep hoping to see some wild
> beardless iris...anyone have any particular places I should be looking?
> 
> Cindy Rust, Missouri, Zone 5b...where our merry band of horseback riders
> scouting for historic and beardless iris made it through many obstacles
> including the local gun club, four wheelers, blacktop, hound dogs, cattle
> and lots of rocks and water!
> 
> 
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