Re: CAT: Mailing Lists

From: HIPSource@aol.com

In a message dated 98-11-09 22:41:10 EST, you write:

<<  This year I was quite disappointed that I did not receive many or any
 catalogs from people I ordered and received plants from the previous year.
 Or places I sent money to for a catalog last year and did not receive a
 catalog from them this year.... I was wondering what is the policy most mail
order nusersies have with their mailing lists and mail outs in this regard >>

Leroy, I'm speaking impressionistically here but I think the general pattern
is that one requests a catalog and pays for it and then it continues to arrive
if one purchases things. If one does not order the nursery may send one other,
but few intentionally send a third in my experience without an order or check.
This presumes one is not a known name or something to whom a courtesy copy
would be sent as a matter of course.

If one requests a catalog but does not have to pay for it then one can be
disappointed if it does not arrive, but one really has no grievance. If one
pays for a catalog and does not receive it, or the money back, one does. I
sent for one of these myself this year and I'm out two bucks and not
delighted. One forms impressions...

There is a tendency to think mailing things internationally is more
complicated or expensive than it is, so possibly you are up against that. You
may wish to offer to exhange catalogs with the nursery with whom you are
interested in dealing. You have a lot of wonderful and some rare beardless
irises in your nursery and folks will come to know that.

I'd just start over, using the ads in the back of the most recent AIS Bulletin
but being aware that outdated info invariably creeps into any such listing and
so your request may drift into the ether.  A nice form letter included with
your check might be a good thing. 

Now, about those spurias: Check with Tom Albrego at Cheleham Gardens and the
folks at Shepard's. If you can't find the addresses, let me know. And keep
your eye out for historic spurias. These irises were used quite a bit in the
early years of the century--still are in England-- and, with the exception of
I.orientalis (not the one now called I. sanguinea the one once called
I.ochraleuca) they are scarce to non-existent as far as I can tell. I crave
WADI ZEM ZEM in the worst way. 

Anner Whitehead
HIPSource@aol.om







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