Re: Danielson's Dancers
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- Subject: Re: Danielson's Dancers
- From: b*@tiger.hsc.edu (Bill Shear)
- Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 11:59:37 -0700 (MST)
Sorry to rain on Sharon's parade, but I checked my records in the meantime
and I am now sure that the survivor was TWILIGHT DANCER, not TEMPLE DANCER.
I grew them both, but TEMPLE died after its first year. What I have now
and think is TEMPLE DANCER seems an obvious 3/4-bred about 20" tall, two
buds in a terminal socket and sometimes a single branch. Large flowers
have white stands with a faint tan veining pattern, falls are yellow-tan
with a dark brown dotting pattern near the haft and around the beard, and a
rather small dark signal at the end of the beard (from a photo).
However, not to speak ill of the dead, but I often found when my plants
bloomed that they did not match Henry D.'s written description in his
catalog. I don't know if this was mislabelling of plants or inaccurate
catalog descriptions. I do know those catalogs had an astounding number of
typos.
Best wishes, Bill
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William A. Shear
Department of Biology
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney VA 23943 USA
phone (804) 223-6172
FAX (804) 223-6374
