Re: Bindweed, roundup, iris, rot

In a message dated 96-09-20 08:27:47 EDT, you write:

>I did a Roundup experiment about 10 years ago - took a clump of fescue that
>was infested with a small rhizome of an iris from the last century (can't
>find it's name -  sounds like geshundheit  - Rheingeplautz, or Rheinshnauzer
>or... pale rosy lavender, the one Clarence says has great branching)).

I believe the iris you are referring to RHEINGAUPERLE (G & K, 1924).  It not
only has wide branching, but also is in my opinion the lovliest "pink" iris I
have seen from the period before the late 1940's when the pink breakthroughs
were made.  Clarence Mahan in VA
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