Re: Schreiners' catalog is here!
- To: i*@Rt66.com
- Subject: Re: Schreiners' catalog is here!
- From: m*@earthlink.net (Mike and Anne Lowe)
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 15:17:56 -0500
Tom writes...
>One of their new intros is named 'Old Black Magic', which I find
>amusing because there is an iris from the 1930s named 'Black Magic'
>which is actually old. I can hear a classification officer at a
>show patiently explaining, "No, that's not the new 'Old Black Magic',
>that's the old 'Black Magic'". If only Abbott and Costello were
>still with us!
Even more confusion arises concerning 'Black Magic'...
I have been the moderator (via 'The Reblooming Iris Recorder' and 'ROOTS')
of a ten year controversy concurring the identity of Robert Wayman's 1935
introduction 'Black Magic.' The discussion is kept alive by irisarians in
the American Southwest who grow two iris; Eleanor Roosevelt (Sass, H.
P.-McDade 1933) and Black Magic (Wayman 1935) and report that there is an
easily observed difference in these cultivars.
If anyone is growing a 'Black Magic' that differs from their Eleanor
Roosevelt, I would dearly love to obtain a start of it. I have obtained
'Black Magic' from five separate sources -- none of the five differ from
Eleanor Roosevelt. I am as certain as it is possible with a cultivar 60
years in commerce that I have the authentic Eleanor Roosevelt -- obtained
from, in no particular order 1-the Sass Display garden, 2. R. G. Smith, 3.
Phil Edinger, 4. John Weiler
Best regards,
Mike Lowe, Virginia, USA
