Re: CULT: Rebloom and fragrance

Yes, some had a slight odor.

"J. Griffin Crump" <jgcrump@cox.net> wrote:  Thanks, Pat -- And besides the one that smelled good, did the others have 
fragrance, whether good or bad? -- Griff

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From: "Pat Norvell" 

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Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: [iris] CULT: Rebloom and fragrance


> It's funny that your E-mail came when I had just returned from our October 
> iris meeting.
> The program was on reblooming irises. I mentioned that one of the 
> irises that I brought was fragrant, but I hadn't figured out which one had 
> scented my car. So, several of us went along the line sniffing the 
> irises to see which one it was. The only iris there with a nice scent 
> was one of the four that I brought, Daughter of Stars. Apparently, most 
> of the rebloomers don't smell good when grown here in Dallas.
> Pat in 
> Dallas
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> "J. Griffin Crump" wrote:
> Last weekend's Region 4 regional convention at Blacksburg, VA, was an
> excellent event, the more remarkable because it was organized by Don Rude 
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> an area of southwest Virginia that has no local society. Also remarkable 
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> a phenomenon observed at the show by myself and several other hybridizers 
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> growers, namely, that every single iris in the show was fragrant. None had 
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> fragrance that was hard to detect, and many had strong fragrance.
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> Yesterday, we observed the same phenomenon at the Chesapeake and Potomac
> Reblooming Show in northern Virginia. Again, all of the fragrances were
> easily detectable.
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> This contrasts, in our experience, with spring shows, which typically 
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> at least several cultivars that have no discernable fragrance. So, we are
> wondering if fragrance goes with rebloom.
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> If any of you have made the same observation, or if there are still some
> reblooming shows pending out there, we'd like for you to be nosy and let 
> us
> know what you sniff out. -- Griff
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