Re: japanese iris
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- Subject: Re: japanese iris
- From: "* <z*@chcs.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 15:04:36 -0700
From: "Zebra" <zebra@chcs.com>
From: Scott Aitken <zebra@chcs.com>
Hi all,
john walker <NEJWW@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu> originally asked:
>hello folks, i am wondering if there is anyone that can tell me about
>a japanese iris that i have ordered from aitkens. it has no
>hybridizer and no year. the name of the iris akebono, any help would
>be appreciated..john walker zone 8b/9a starke florida..
I asked my folks if they had any more information about this iris. They do
not know any more details other than what has already been quoted from the
AIS checklist, but did give me a little background about it, as follows:
>We have grown AKEBONO for many years, but don't
>remember where we got it originally - could have been
>the Meeks, Chad Harris, Caprice Farms (who used to grow
>a lot of Marx seedlings), Lorena Reid -- any of these.
>Many years ago Marx, who used to be very active in this
>area in Japanese irises, imported great quantities of
>Japanese irises from Japan, many of unknown
>hybridizers. Other growers in the country have done the
>same thing - Dr. McEwen in Maine for one, although most
>of his came originally from Hirao, Ichie,
>and Kamo Nursery, and for these we know most of the
>hybridizers. At any rate, plants got circulated, with
>hybridizers names either lost or unknown. In the past
>ten years or so Clarence Mahan has done a tremendous
>job for the SJI in tracing many of these, and in having
>many of the better known and worthy ones registered by
>SJI with the AIS.
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