Re: Schreiners' catalog is here!
- To: i*@Rt66.com
- Subject: Re: Schreiners' catalog is here!
- From: t*@Lanl.GOV (Tom Tadfor Little)
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 13:28:21 -0700
Mike writes
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: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.
Yes...this was an ongoing controversy in Las Cruces. Alas, I can't provide
either reliable information or plants. I remember that Ann Wright in Hatch
knew something about this. Sharon???
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