Re: Personal introduction

At 05:26 AM 11/09/96 -0600, you wrote:
>Welcome Bruce!
>I am helping plan The first Historic Iris Preservation Society Convention, to
>be held in 2000.  Were you acquainted with any of the early irisarians in NY?
> I am especialy curious about A.B. Katkamier, and A.P. and William Saunders. 
>
Kathyrn:
  I was slightly acquainted with a number of iris folks in N.Y. state but
the course of time has erased some of their names. It is near 30 years since
I was very active in driving to visit gardens with my wife - I just got too
busy with the farm work here and two growing daughters who liked to skate.
(in summer as well as winter).  met Dr. Randolph a few times and visited his
garden where he gave me the iris "Hungary", named in honor of his friend
Hanselmeyer who found it in the wild in Austria. I knew Bee Warburton and
was to her place a couple of times and met Edwin Rundlett in Newark, the
blind man so interested in reblooming iris. There were many others but not
the two you particularly asked about.
   The latest news came by a phone call from Brantford, Ont. this morning
that Albert Ellis had died a day ago. He was 93. In the early days of the
Median Iris Society he was the Canadian representive for that Society and
into drawfs too. A former radio repair man very keen on short wave as he was
a bit blind (and worse later). He was over to the U.S. far more than I and
always brought home something from ESIS auctions. One plant - I. albertii -
he brought home for my wife Alberta and perhaps his own, but he was not one
for species. It was here for 40 years but was lost last winter. Now all
three are gone. 

Bruce Richardson (near Hamilton. Ontario, Canada)
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