RE: HYB: Controversy and Disgust
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- Subject: RE: [iris-talk] HYB: Controversy and Disgust
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- Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 08:07:00 -0600
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From: "Greg McCullough" <icity@msn.com>
If any of you folks carry DOUBLE EAGLE please email me off-list. I, for one,
find the flat, multi-petal irises very attractive. Hard not to if you are a
Japanese Iris fan.
Greg McCullough
Iris City Gardens
www.iriscitygardens.com
Primm Springs, Tennessee, US
icity@msn.com
> From: Dave Silverberg <sil1812@molalla.net>
>
> My entry into the competition would be found in Lamb Nurseries (Spokane,
> Washington) 1960 catalog:
> "Double Eagle (Samuelson 1954) The most sensational Iris ever
> introduced. The first real break in bearded Iris of all time. This
> amazing Iris throws an unusually heavy, well branched 40" stems carrying
> huge buds. The first of these open with the conventional three standards
> and three falls but the later buds toss aside all convention and open to
> mammoth flowers having from six to 12 standards most beautifully ruffled
> and waved. Unusually heavy substance hold these lovely standards
> slightly apart, permitting the startling double effect to be fully
> apparent even from a distance. Through some lucky chance this new double
> Iris is a fine coppery chartreuse, a color that all Iris lovers are
> seeking. It is also among the strongest growers we have seen and
> thoroughly hardy even in our rigorous northern climate. It is not a
> freak that will revert to a single type but the first really double Iris
> to be offered anywhere."
>
> Dave Silverberg
> Molalla, Oregon, USA zone 7/8ish
>
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