Re: Re:Growing Iris South Florida
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  • Subject: Re: Re:Growing Iris South Florida
  • From: &* P* &* <1*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 20:50:47 -0500 (EST)
I put a link to it on the Encyclopedia and given sometime later I will transcribe and assemble a more readable replica on the Encyclopedia. It is the type of Test I have been wanting to promote (I am test gardens chair for AIS) We have not had tests or trials for years, I believe that is a sad State.
Did you notice that the "tetraploids" did not fare as well?

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From: "Phloid" <4390a9e81@rewrite.hort.net>
To: iris@hort.net
Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2014 8:26:59 PM
Subject: Re: [iris] Re:Growing Iris South Florida

I'm pretty sure I read on the site that it was copyright free by virtue 
of that being the case with entire collection set of documents it falls 
under.
Shaub

On 11/5/2014 7:59 PM, Robert Pries wrote:
> Shaub: You have me. I now must read this paper. I am creating a library of Iris literature on the Iris Encyclopedia. If I can, I will put the paper in the library for all Iris nuts to find. 1942 may be under copyright but if it is available those rights are probably suspended. I was planning to go to bed but this may keep me up.  Thanks Bob.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phloid" <4390a9e81@rewrite.hort.net>
> To: iris@hort.net
> Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2014 7:21:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [iris] Re:Growing Iris South Florida
>
> Robert, interesting note on /Iris x germanica/ specimens in every FL
> county. But if failure to bloom and chance of collected specimens being
> waifs aren't deal breakers I could see it happening easy enough.
>
> Texas seems to teem with TBs. Dallas has hosted the AIS convention,
> albeit it not a humidity/ precipitation match to FL. But if there are
> iris making it in more coastal TX then SE FL is only a couple of shades
> deeper in TB Hades, no? Is the step to hot/humid Z10 the one over the
> brink for blooming TBs?
>
> Only because I know of nothing like it more recent (blame my lack of
> reading) I offer this. A link to a fascinating downloadable paper done
> back in 1942 where over 200 TBs were tested at TX A&M and quite a few
> grew and bloomed with only basic care. Climate in College Station, TX
> might have changed a bit since then but it certainly hot enough. But
> still not Z10 and less steam bath than FL I expect. (?) Unfortunately
> the paper seems to be only downloadable as single pages in large TIFF
> format. Maybe someone can find otherwise. Being a data nut I derived a
> summary Excel spreadsheet of the results list. If someone can tell me
> how to make this available w/o security risks I'd be happy to do so. (I
> am still trying to shake the last spam list I got on.) But *no promises*
> I have made a perfect derivation. If you are going to cite the data you
> need to go the original source.
>
> http://repository.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/86202?show=full
>
> BTW - if anybody has ANY leads on the presumed lost cultivars Athene and
> Azure Glow I would give my eye teeth to get divisions. Why those two?
> Read the paper. (Cruel huh?) Monsignor abounds these days.
>
> Shaub Dunkley
>
> On 11/5/2014 4:00 PM, Robert Pries wrote:
>> While it is probably true that most bearded irises have trouble in zone 9, I can assure you they can grow in zone 8. But there are possibilities that to my knowledge have never been explored.
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