Re: Rebloom: NORTHWARD HO
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- Subject: Re: Rebloom: NORTHWARD HO
- From: "* A* M* <w*@Ra.MsState.Edu>
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 08:35:51 -0600 (MDT)
On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, John I Jones wrote:
> Linda Mann wrote:
> >
> > I don't grow it, but last year on the list, if my memory is working
> > today, Lloyd Zurbrigg confessed that the description in the R&I is off
> > from what it usually looks like. I don't remember details - check the
> > archives. Seems like everybody was saying it is really unique and
> > pretty.
>
> So I guess my naive question for the day is: If he knows it is wrong,
> why doesn't he correct it???
>
> John | "There be dragons here"
> | Annotation used by ancient cartographers
> | to indicate the edge of the known world.
>
> John Jones, jijones@ix.netcom.com
> Fremont CA, USDA zone 8/9 (coastal, bay)
> Max high 95F/35C, Min Low 28F/-2C average 10 days each
> Heavy clay base for my raised beds.
>
John, that is my question also. Since NH was registered in '90,
I think, surely he has had time to correct it. What about on down the
line when all of us are gone, but the iris isn't and irisarians look at
the R & I and then the flower, and declare it misnamed? The Check Lists
are the Bible for iris descriptions.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS 7/8
