Iris questions

Hello,
    Last week we were discussing irises and today I received this email from
one of my dear iris friends, who helped me a great deal when I first began
to be interested in growing historic irises.  She gave me permission to post
this to the list, as you will see at the end of her email.  It should answer
some questions about the pictures on the Historic Iris webpage.  Write to
her if you have any other questions...she is a great source of information.

Lynn
Zone 7b

-----Original Message-----
From: HIPSource@aol.com <HIPSource@aol.com>
To: plamb5@bellsouth.net <plamb5@bellsouth.net>
Date: Saturday, September 25, 1999 9:16 AM
Subject: Regarding Historics


>Lynn,
>
>I saw your notes on historic irises on the Shade Gardens list archive.
Please
>note that beardless irises can also be historic.
>
>You may tell the lady who is inquiring about starts of two unknowns up
>there--Dr. Moody and Antique Flattie--- that they are not available. These
>are rare irises and are basically being distributed in a very limited
fashion
>within HIPS at this time. I've been waiting five years for a piece of Dr.
>Moody.
>
>The problem with pictures on the webpage is that people who are otherwise
not
>very committed to the cause use them as a shopping catalog and start
>expecting people to give them great rarities and it becomes diplomatically
>difficult to tell them to go fall in love with something else a little less
>obstruse.
>
>If the woman wants to hear it from the horse's mouth you can refer her to
me
>privately at this address. I'm the HIPS starting point for all
>where-to-get-it-inquiries.Post this information if you wish since their
>attention has been drawn to the HIPS page, but please mention that the
season
>for obtaining irises is over.
>
>Anner
>
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