Re: CAT: Tempo Two
- Subject: Re: CAT: Tempo Two
- From: p*@coupeville.net
- Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 19:00:39 -0000
--- In iris-talk@egroups.com, "Jeff and Carolyn Walters"
<jcwalters@b...> wrote:
> > From: patriciabrooks@c...
> > 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)
Thanks, Jeff, I was aware that the AU dollar is only about half of
ours. But there's still that whopping shipping charge. And maybe
supporting our own? They've gone to all the trouble and expense of
importing and growing on till they have enough to offer. As I said,
I'm hopeful those better-heeled in the garden club here will have the
bucks and desires for the new intros and will place a big order to
cover costs of the catalog. And I'll keep buying Blyth's, just a
little later.
Patricia
> jcwalters@b...
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