Re: Re: SPECIES: why here? germanica

In a message dated 3/18/04 2:42:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
neilm@charter.net writes:

> Along with Keppel, Ghio, Harder and Moldovan who were all about the same 
> age I
> was, we learned from the really "old timers."  

Hi Neil,

In the olden days my husband and I were quite close with Steve Moldovan.  He 
was in the Army Reserve and was called to active duty during the Bay of Pigs 
incident.  He was then president of our local iris society and members pitched 
in to weed his irises while he was away.  Steve is several years younger than 
I and had just graduated from Ohio State University when we first met him.  He 
was especially Orville Fay's protege as well as other Illinois hybridizers.  
I don't believe he grew irises of the Purissima vintage, but was using more 
advanced seedlings from Fay and the others.  In 1968 he introduced our first 
iris, Lemon Spot, an SDB.  He introduced a few dwarfs himself, but mainly he was 
interested in big, beautiful TBs.  Now, of course, he is mainly interested in 
big, beautiful daylilies.

Dorothy Willott

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