Re: TB: "clumps"
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] TB: "clumps"
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- Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 14:17:26 -0500
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From: "wmoores" <wmoores@watervalley.net>
On 27 Jun 99, at 11:01, Gary D. Sides wrote:
> From: "Gary D. Sides" <irisman@mindspring.com>
>
> On Clumping:
>
>
>
> Well, that is because it is my understanding that very few breeders
> grow irises in a clump any more and I think even fewer are selecting
> for clumping quality. Particularly for the western growers, a new
> seedling blooms, they line out every single increase every single year
> for the next 5 years to get it on the market and very few plants are
> allowed to clump and are watched to see what they look like in it.
> The closest any of the culitivars come to clumping is if they get sent
> to convention as guests and they may or may not perform as they do
> back home. It gets introduced anyway cause there's that quota of new
> names to get out there every year.
But, what about the display gardens I saw at Schreiner's and
Cooley's for the 1994 AIS Convention? What were those 'lumps' ,
'colonies' of irises of theirs I saw, even though some were blooming
out like FEATURE ATTRACTION?
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS 7/8 (over 5 inches of rain since Wednesday)
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