Re: Instructions on starting irises from seeds
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: Instructions on starting irises from seeds
- From: p*@psu.edu (Paul and Heather Bruhn)
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 06:50:09 -0700 (MST)
Donald,
Norm Deno, who lives here in State College, has written a very extensive
book plus a supplement about seed germination. Norm is a retired chemistry
professor (worked at Penn State) and he approaches seed germination as a
chemist. Apparently there are lots of instructions for iris seeds as well
as seeds of about everything else in his two volumes. He's been recommended
by Arrowhead Alpines in their seed germinating instructions. I spoke to him
yesterday and he told me that the two books together are $35 and just the
first book (w/o supplement) is $20. I'm currently looking hard at my budget...
Here's the info on getting in touch with him:
Norm Deno
139 Lenor Drive
State College, PA 16801
I know the book is kind of expensive, so if anybody has a cheap alternative
now would be the time for a posting! :-)
Heather
>I just had a thought that it would be extremely convenient and useful if
>someone came up with a one page list of germination instructions for the
>most common iris species. This might even be something useful to send out
>with the SIGNA seed list or post on a web page. Such a quick list would be
>extremely helpful to beginners like myself. Does anyone know if such a set
>of instructions exists already? If not would anyone like to volunteer to
>help me track down this info or contribute instructions which I could
>distribute freely?
>
>-Donald
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>Donald Mosser
>Member of AIS, HIPS, SIGNA, SSI, SLI, SPCNI, and IRIS-L
>dmosser@southconn.com
>http://www.geocities.com/rainforest/5570
>
>North Augusta, South Carolina, USA
>On the South Carolina and Georgia Border
>USDA Zone 7b-8
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Paul L. Bruhn plb123@psu.edu Heather McCune Bruhn
State College, Pennsylvania, zone 5 (almost zone 6 but not quite!)
