Re: HYB: Controversy and Disgust
- To: i*@onelist.com
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB: Controversy and Disgust
- From: w*@watervalley.net
- Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 12:40:17 -0600
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From: wmoores@watervalley.net
> From: hipsource@aol.com
>
>
> Speaking of which, does anyone out there grow the big Schreiner TB
> GIANT ROSE well enough to get the full impact? Is it as grotesque as
> it sounds like it could be, or simply very large? I mean, is it a
> handsome iris? How are the proportions between the bloom and the rest
> of the plant?
>
> And wasn't this the first and one of the few irises to be
> patented....speaking of controversies...
>
> Anner Whitehead
> HIPSource@aol.com
As I remember GIANT ROSE, it wasn't all that attractive. It just
dwarfed everything else and eventually flopped and fell in the Texas
wind. I don't remember transplanting it because I had been
forewarned. It was even bigger than WILLIAM SETCHELL and
flopped about the same. Was it patented? I remember ROCOCO
being patented and listed in a local (Texas) pricelist as NFS but for
trade only. Then, it seemed the patent became unenforceable and
it was offered for sale.
I think the patented irises are listed somewhere in the archives.
I'll take a gander there.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS 7/8 USA
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