Re: TDF - compiling list
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- Subject: Re: TDF - compiling list
- From: r* <t*@catskill.net>
- Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 17:48:25 -0600 (MDT)
J. Griffin Crump wrote:
>
> The iris that hooked me was WABASH. I saw a row of it struggling in the
> shade a couple of blocks from my home in Indianapolis in 1974.
WABASH is an amoena with pure white> standards and royal purple, heavy
velvet falls trimmed in ermine.>
I have used it extensively in my breeding over> the years -- more than
any other single cultivar. Yesterday, however, the work was vindicated.
My first Wabash> derivative to do so -- a border bearded seedling with
light blue-violet> stands and deep red-violet falls -- took a blue
ribbon at yesterday's> Francis Scott Key Society's show at Westminster,
Maryland. Well, as> they say, even a blind squirrel finds an acorn
sometimes. But it is> encouraging.
>
> Griff Crump, looking at the last of his blooming-out TBs along the tidal
> Potomac. jgcrump@erols.com
Hi Griff--
Excuse my ignorance but I have some questions. when you say you did the
breeding, what does that mean? did you continue to grow the WABASH or
use it to create other irises? Do you sell the ones you breed because
this one sounds luscious. If you do, I'd love to buy some from you. And
congratulations on your win!
Rima terra@catskill.net
upstate NY zone 4
