RE: HIST: SIB: MILDRED STAHLMAN
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- Subject: RE: [iris-talk] HIST: SIB: MILDRED STAHLMAN
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- Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 16:40:43 -0600
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From: "Greg McCullough" <icity@msn.com>
Back a few years ago we did an extensive search for these two iris and had
no luck. A book was recently published by the Vanderbilt Garden Club called
"The Real Dirt" and I think the author, Sharon Hogge, also tried and failed
to find these plants.
Greg McCullough
Iris City Gardens
Primm Springs, TN US
www.iriscitygardens.com
>
> From: hipsource@aol.com
>
> In a message dated 3/9/00 3:10:25 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> mary.k.matthys@vanderbilt.edu writes:
>
> << I am trying to locate this iris that is historic. The breeder
> for this
> would also be named Stahlman and was the breeder for Mary Geddes,
> the Dykes
> medal winner in 1936. There was an Anne Stahlman and a Mildred
> Stahlman bred,
> but they didn't win any awards. I am trying to locate pictures of these
> irises, as I work for Mildred
> Stahlman. >>
>
> Both ANNE STAHLMAN and MILDRED STAHLMAN were light blue Siberian irises
> registered in 1931.
>
> The 1939 Alphabetical Iris Check List indicates that Thomas A.
> Washington of
> Nashville was the originator of these two Siberian irises. He and
> Mrs. E.C.
> Stahlman worked together, and MARY GEDDES (Stahlman-Washington,
> 1931), which
> is a bearded iris, is listed in the Check List in both their names.
>
> Both irises were included in the Fairmount Gardens (Lowell, MASS)
> catalog in
> 1931, and 'Mildred' was listed again in 1938. There is no
> indication in the
> Check List that any photographs accompanied the listings.
>
> According to the most current information I have here, the Historic Iris
> Preservation Society has no records of either iris surviving, at
> least under
> her own name.
>
> Unless someone pipes up at this point to say they know more on
> this subject,
> my only suggestion is to see if any of Washington's relatives
> survive and if
> they have preserved his papers, which might include photographs
> of the iris.
> He lived at 1700 18th Ave., S., Nashville, and he died in 1939.
> Mrs. Stahlman
> was also deceased by 1939.
>
> Anner Whitehead
> Commercial Source Chairman
> Historic Iris Preservation Society, AIS
> HIPSource@aol.com
>
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