Re: SA: temperature vs. horns
- To: i*@onelist.com
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] SA: temperature vs. horns
- From: E* G*
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 23:31:52 -0500
From: Ellen Gallagher <e_galla@moose.ncia.net>
Vince Lewonski wrote:
>there was a letter in
>> Horticulture magazine
>> (December '99, page 10) from Clarence Mahan disputing the
>> identity of an iris
>> mentioned in a previous issue as THORNBIRD, plus a reply
>> from the author of
>> the article explaining that it was correctly named and
>> why it looked
>> different.
>> Cheerio, Esther
>>
> V. sez:
> Anyone see this article?
Yes, the author of the original article (May '99) was Barbara
Perry Lawton and she answered Clarence saying that the TB
irises shown and named in that May issue were i.d. by David
Schreiner and he assured her that they were correctly named.
She said that maybe the climate in Oregon was the reason that
the appendages were missing from the photograph. She also
noted the difficulty in photographing flowers.
I do not grow THORNBIRD. Having seen it in Colorado and
Oklahoma in different gardens in both places, I must say
that it looked different in each garden. I thought it was
one of the most unattractive irises I had ever seen and
cancelled my order for it.
Clarence also corrected the information set forth in the article
concerning the iris borer (not Kathy :)). Ms. Lawton said she
stood corrected on that point.
Good-night all,
Ellen (snowing here again and really cold and the garden is
presently under white mulch - the best kind)
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Ellen Gallagher / e_galla@ncia.net
Northern New Hampshire, USA / Zone 3
Berlin, NH in 'The Great North Woods'
Sunset Zone 44 / http://www.ncia.net/
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