For Mike Lowe

Subj:	Iris Identification
Date:	03/17/96
To:	mblowe@earthlink.net

Mike, in a message dated 96-03-16 21:34:32 EST, you write:

> I
>enjoy the challenge of an iris identification -- particularly when it holds
>promise of being non-trivial. All too often an iris is sent for
>identification and it turns out to be something on the order of Wabash,
>Loreley or Helen Collingwood! (For those not familiar with the previously
>named historics -- they are the iris ID equivalent of shooting fish in a
>barrel!) I just opened a (new) quarter-acre iris bed and I have an unfilled
>row in the 'Who am I' section. Our address is-


I hope you enjoy it enough to take a stab at another one.  I can assure you
that it's not Wabash, Loreley, or Helen Collingwood!    It is a TB, rather
short by today's standards.  Color is, I think, also a bit unusual or at
least uncommon today.  Kind of a buff or beige.  My Mom, being a bit too
critical, I think, calls it her "muddy" or "dirty" iris!

I think it would be stretching it way too much to call it "pink," but maybe
it was considered somewhat pink then?  The form does not look terribly old
 to me, but it was on my parents property when they purchased it in 1950, so
I know it pre-dates 1950.  It is not at all spectacular, but a nice, reliable
garden iris, with somewhat different coloration,  that has managed to survive
all this time, with minimal care and usually choked with grass.
 Unfortunately, I have no pictures of it.

I could send you a rhizome in July, or even hand-carry one to M.A.S.S., if
you're willing to hand-carry it to VA!  Or have you got it button-holed
already??

TIA
Dorothy Fingerhood
DFingerhoo@aol.com
Newfield, NY

Mar. 26--Tom and all--Sorry to subject everyone to this, but I know others
have had trouble getting e-mail to Mike, and am not sure if this "vanishing
message" got lost in the pipes on my end or his end.  Anyone else who can
venture some guesses at this iris's identity, with such limited info., is
welcome to give it a shot!  
Thanks,  DF
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