Re: HIST: foster homes needed
From: John I Jones <jijones@ix.netcom.com>
Hi Merrily,
Nice to hear from you.Please send a few to me (address below) Send them
priority mail and I will reimburse you for the cost (should be $3.20 for
anything under 2 pounds.)
I have be copy of this email forwarded your request to Anner Whitehead,
Commercial Source Chair for HIPS in the hope that she can point you to some
others in HIPS that might like to grow what you have.
It will always be difficult to ID what you have, but starting with the list
you have should make it much easier.
John
Merrily A. Smith wrote:
>
> 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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