Re: Danielson's Dancers


Bill writes

: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).

That's Twilight Dancer all right!

:
: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.

Perhaps as a friend of theirs, I'll be permitted to confide that neither
Danielson would be considered mmm, how shall I say it, particularly
attentive to the details of written communication. But their iris expertise
is unquestionable, and I think mislabelling is not very likely, although of
course it is possible in any garden.

As someone who makes a living as an technical editor, I regard the
typo-prone as an important natural resource in the global economy.

:)

Happy irising, Tom.

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Tom Tadfor Little                   telp@Rt66.com
Iris-L list owner * USDA zone 5/6 * AIS region 23
Santa Fe, New Mexico (USA)
Telperion Productions  http://www.rt66.com/~telp/
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