Re: Schreiners' catalog is here!
- To: i*@Rt66.com
- Subject: Re: Schreiners' catalog is here!
- From: C*@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 21:35:05 -0500
In a message dated 96-03-15 15:23:55 EST, you write:
>>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.
Well, I'm going to have to ask forgiveness for this message, but I cannot
restrain myself.
That old black magic has me in its spell,
No, it's Eleanor Roosevelt that I know so well,
Down and down I go
Round and round I go
Old Black Magic, old Black Magic, Eleanor Roosevelt?
How can I ever tell?
Now if that is not enough, I just bet Schreiner's is selling OLD BLACK MAGIC
for $40.00. Well, here's a bargain for you. I will sell as many of the
"old" Black Magic as you want for $20.00 each. Send your checks fast. ROF
LOL :) C. Mahan
P.S.Remember, I asked for forgiveness before I started! No fruit and
vegetable throwing is allowed on line!
