Re: TB: 'mart irises
- To: iris-talk@onelist.com
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] TB: 'mart irises
- From: H*@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 08:51:21 EDT
From: HIPSource@aol.com
In a message dated 5/15/99 12:41:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
StorYlade@aol.com writes:
<<<<<< << He said that he KNEW that most of these bargain bin irises were
mislabeled, 'cause he sold his extras to them!!! >>
>>This gets funnier. I just remembered that the picture they were selling
Lacy
Snowflake under wasn't even close to Lacy Snowflake. Apropos, since the
flower wasn't either. They just weren't the same.
So! These people collect all of the extras from the big guys, mix them up
good and slap on a label?<< >>>>>
As I'm reading this they were known to be mixed up before they were sold to
the wholesaler at the end of the season.
As I've mentioned here before the unpleasant little fact about the
cellobaggie 'mart irises is that they have to have been grown by someone and
with the exception of those from abroad, that means a domestic---read
American-----grower. The 'marts do not have great fields of cruddy plants
being raised to drop into cellobaggies to sell at just the wrong season.
It isn't a bit funny, that part of it, when you thing about it.
But I do think it is funny, and interesting, and highly suggestive, that
people are buying these bottom of the heap rhizomes and ending up with
THORNBIRD or getting show stalks in the first year on EDITH WOLFORD.
Now THAT is a Dykes worthy performance!
Anner Whitehead
HIPSource@aol.com
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