HIST: foster homes needed
- To: "iris list"
- Subject: HIST: foster homes needed
- From: M* A* S*
- Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 13:28:12 -0400
From: "Merrily A. Smith" <merrilyann@erols.com>
I am looking for foster homes for unidentified historic iris from my
mother's garden.
My mother has grown iris for 50 years, though hasn't been able to tend her
garden very well for the past 15. For the past several years I've been
taking rhizomes from Minnesota to Washington, DC and growing them in my
garden. She and I have had a lot of fund identifying them from her old list
of varieties. I think of my iris garden as my family tree of flowers.
My mother sold her house this fall and is moving into a condo. A couple of
weeks ago I dug up ALL of her iris and now have hundreds of unidentified
rhizomes. I can't possible plant them all, but would like to have in my own
garden all the varieties she had.
My idea is that perhaps some of you would be interested in raising these
orphans, many now undernourished and small, so we can find out what they
are. If it's one that I don't already have in my garden, I thought you
might be willing to send an increase back in a couple of years. Anybody
interested?
As I said, I don't specifically know what I have. It could be any one of
the following:
Patrician
Jane Phillips
Apricot Dancer
Indiana Night
Frilly Fringes
White Goddess
Golden Russet
Persia
Cohokia
Lovely Letty
Mulberry Rose
Palomino
Pinncale
Theodolina
Inca Chief
Minnie Colquitt
Boradway Star
Helen McKenzie
Orchid Ruffles
Quicksilver
Mission Rose
Frost and Flame
China Maid
Treasure Island
Dark Mood
Masked Ball
Hiawatha
Sylvia Murray
New Snow
Wild Ginger
Merrily Smith
Washington, DC
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