Re: Fragrance and Louise Smith

In a message dated 96-09-17 14:34:28 EDT, you write:

>I have collected many catalogs for winter reading and would welcome any
>suggestions on fragrant iris.

If you like fragrant irises I highly recommend the tall bearded iris
SOUTHLAND GRAPE, which really does smell like grape juice.  My own
introduction SUKY has a "spiced drops" fragrance which it inherited from its
pollen parent VICTORIA FALLS.  Lloyd Zurbrigg's rebloomer ENGLISH COTTAGE is
highly fragrant...one year I took a stalk to the American Horticultural
Society fall program at River Farm, and crowds came from all over the garden
asking "What is that delightful scent?"  A wonderful fragrant species is Iris
graminea.

I received some very bad news yesterday, which Dennis Stoneburner and other
editors will want to know.  The woman who almost single-handedly led the
movement to get "fragrance" back on the iris registration form and into the
check lists, Louise Smith of Williamsburg, VA, died Saturday.  For many years
she directed many fragrance round robins and wrote articles for the AIS
Bulletin and other iris publications on fragrance and fragrant irises.  She
was in her 80's and had not been well for some years. It is a sad loss not
only to Region 4 but to the world of irises.  Clarence Mahan in VA
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