Re: CAT: Tempo Two
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CAT: Tempo Two
- From: J* a* C* W*
- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 21:35:34 -0600
> From: patriciabrooks@coupeville.net
> The prices, much less the Au charges to ship out, are way out of
> sight of my budget, but I did what I often do with intros, see who
> the parents are and where I might find them for WAY less.
>
> Having originated in Australia, I thought I'd have little luck with
> finding Blyth's '90s cultivars here (I have many of his earlier
> ones), but lo and behold, many of Blyth's much-used parents are
> available from our own iris-talk confreres. ABOUT TOWN (TT price:
> $12.50++ is available from Harold's Beautiful View Iris Gardens for
> $7. Blythe's much-used IMPRIMIS is $5 from BVIG and $3! from Sutton's.
Patricia,
I hope you are taking into consideration in comparing Australian and U.S.
prices that not all dollars are created equal (or remain so thereafter). At
the close of business today the Australian dollar was quoted at US$.5286.
Therefore, the AU$12.50 you quote as the TT price for ABOUT TOWN is
actually somewhat less (US$6.60) than the BVIG price for the same cultivar.
Curiously enough, when the Aussies split the pound in two and called the
result dollars, the AU$ was valued at about US$1.20 as I recall. Some folks
have been hit even harder than we in the U.S. by inflation and monetary
depreciation over the past 25-30 years.
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4/5, Sunset Zone 2, AHS Zone 7)
jcwalters@bridgernet.com
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