Re: HYB: Zurbrigg variety


remove my name off of the fucking list or whatever i am on, i am sick of 
getting fucking spam mail... i came back from a 4 day vacation and had 
200 new fucking messages... 
                        


>From iris-l@rt66.com Sun Mar 29 17:12:49 1998
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>From: z88keys@mindspring.com (L.Zurbrigg)
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>Subject: Re: HYB: Zurbrigg variety
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>>Hi Mr. Zurbrigg,
>>        I was out in the garden today weeding and cleaning up dead 
leaves
>>around my
>>clump of Quivering Flame. Since I have been seeing your name often on 
the list
>>I thought I should go straight to the source to get some answers. I am
>>probably opening a can of worms doing this but I have had questions 
for
>>several years regarding this variety.
>>        First question: What do you call those strange petaloid things 
on it's
>>standards and where did they come from?
>>        Second question: Did you pursue breeding with Quivering Flame 
to
>>get more of
>>these type novelties? Are they worth pursuing? Are there others I 
should know
>>about?
>>        Third Question: In the '59 R & I, there is no mention of its 
extra
>>petal
>>parts in the description. Were you not able to register novelties 
then?
>>
>>        Sigh.....Now I feel so much better that I have asked those 
nagging
>>questions.
>>
>>IRIS MANIAC,
>>Sterling (not Innerst)
>>Seattle, WA. Zone 8
>>paganpink@msn.com
>Dear Sterling:  Please, let me have a plant or two of QUIVERING FLAME. 
It
>is old-timy but there is nothing quite like it. I could not move 
everything
>when I moved from Indiana University to Radford, VA . This plant came 
in my
>amoena lines, I cannot explain the "shingling" of the standards. I did 
not
>mention them when registering, or if I did, the information was left 
out. I
>saw a near-black with some of this on it, and the owner of the garden 
said
>I could not have any pollen, nor could I have a piece of it, because it 
was
>going into the trash. Had I been smarter then, I would have praised his
>seedling and told him to let me know when it was introduced. Then he
>probably would not have noticed the little extra parts, and gone ahead 
and
>introduced it. This was almost forty years ago, and it occurred right 
here
>in North Carolina.
>        I do not know if there is a future for this novel feature, and 
I
>tried only a little to breed with this variety, but I would dearly love 
to
>do so again. If you can send me some pollen, please do, although I do 
not
>recall if it produces pollen. Delighted to hear you still have it. Good
>luck on any crossing you decide to make. Lloyd Zurbrigg in Durham NC
>
>
>
>


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