Re: HIST: foster homes needed
From: "Merrily A. Smith" <merrilyann@erols.com>
Great! Thanks very much. I'll pack 'em up. They aren't much to look at.
M
----- Original Message -----
From: John I Jones <jijones@ix.netcom.com>
To: <iris-talk@onelist.com>
Cc: <hipsource@aol.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 1999 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-talk] 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
> >
> >
> --
>
> John | "There be dragons here"
> | Annotation used by ancient cartographers
> | to indicate the edge of the known world.
> ________________________________________________
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