Journal of the Historic Iris Preservation Society
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ROOTS Journal of the Historic Iris Preservation Society Volume 29, Issue 1 Spring 2016 ROOTS Volume 29, Issue 1, Spring 2016 2016 HIPS General Meeting Date Everyone is invited to attend the 2016 HIPS CONTENTS General Meeting scheduled for May 25 at 1PM at the AIS Convention in the Marriott Hotel at the 3 From the President’s Garden - Cathy Egerer Newark International Airport, New Jersey. Please 3 Announcements, Errata, Editor’s Note note there will no longer be section board 6 The Iris in the Cradle of Horticulture - W. Douglass Paschall meetings at the AIS Convention, so the HIPS 9 The Locator Board will meet by teleconference prior to the 10 ‘Amas’ and ‘Macrantha’ - Milan Blažek Convention. a 15 HIPS NEW Rhizome Sale - Judy Schneider 18 National Collections - Charles Carver Copyright Information 21 HIPS Outreach - Cathy Egerer Unless specifically stated otherwise, all rights are 21 The Search for ‘Emma Cook’ - Part 1 - Nancy McDonald reserved by HIPS. AIS and all affiliates may 22 Iris Colour Rendition - Anne Milner reprint freely, with attribution; please send the 24 What We’re Growing Now: The 2015 Databank - B. Barney ROOTS editor a courtesy copy. All others, please 27 Rescuing the Lankow Historic Iris Collection - C. Carver inquire. a 31 Display Garden Reports - Tammy Skahan & Arlyn Madsen 35 Society Business - Cathy Egerer THANK YOU! 35 In Memoriam From the bottom of her heart, the editor thanks 36 The HIPS Website - Laetitia Munro Phil Edinger for vetting our photo illustrations and 37 Treasurer’s Report Janet Smith for cheerfully volunteering to be our 38 What Do You See? Purple Basal Foliage - Dave Prichard Photo Editor. Merci beaucoup to Catherine Adam 40 Vendor List - Dave Prichard for her valuable information about our cover iris, 43 HIPS Contacts which was incorrectly named in the AIS 1939 Check List. a HIPS MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION - E-members do not receive paper copies of Subscription Votes Price: U.S, Price: ROOTS; all others do. ROOTS will be available to Choice Canada, & Rest of World all members on the HIPS website. Mexico (Overseas) - ALL memberships include access to the HIPS TRADITIONAL MEMBERSHIP website. - U.S., Canadian, & Mexican members pay the Single Annual 1 US $13 US $20 same price & have access to the HIPS Rhizome Sale. Members elsewhere pay extra for postage. Single 1 US $33 US $52 We’re sorry, but we cannot ship rhizomes overseas. Triennial - Join online or send a check or money order in Dual Annual 2 US $15 US $22 $US, payable to HIPS, to our Membership Chair Judy Eckhoff, 7911 S Yoder Rd, Haven KS Dual Triennial 2 US $39 US $58 67543-8114; 620-931-5114; you may also reach Judy at <[email protected]>. Youth, Annual 1 US $5 sorry, not - ROOTS is the semiannual bulletin of The Historic 18 years or less available Iris Preservation Society (HIPS), a 501(c)(3) E-MEMBERSHIP corporation incorporated in the state of Oregon, USA. For submission deadlines, please inquire of Single Annual 1 $10 $10 the editor. a LIFE MEMBERSHIP On Our Cover Single Life 1 US $225 sorry, not ‘Deuil de Valéry Mayet’ (Denis, 1912) from a available lantern slide from the Scott Arboretum Dual Life 2 US $250 Archives, Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College. Sadly, we know of no ROOTS is issued twice per calendar year. source for this iris, which commemorates the - All prices are in U.S. dollars. French entomologist & zoology professor. a ROOTS, Volume 29, Issue 1 2 Spring 2016 From the President’s Garden Contact Doug Paschall, the program administrator, at <[email protected]> to sign up. We especially need more gardeners who enjoy the modern Happy Spring! As I write, my garden is still historics from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. GG under snow, but the big melt is coming. Let’s hope irises are waiting to be adopted! this spring is drier than last year and we can all Brett Barney, our Member Databank Chair, is enjoy a great bloom season. waiting to hear from you. We use the Member Our HIPS Rhizome Sale has been completely Databank and the Commercial Source List to overhauled, with a new format and a new time determine which irises are rare enough to include in frame: mid-July. See the article on page 15. Please the Guardian Gardens program. Undoubtedly, some look through your gardens and see if you can donate of the irises we think are rare are growing in rhizomes to the sale, and pass the word to your members’ gardens, but if we don’t have your iris gardening friends. Noids are welcome, and photos lists, we can’t tell. Preservation is the foundation of of them are appreciated. Rhizome Sale Chair the entire HIPS organization, so please help Judy Schneider would love to hear from you at strengthen HIPS and send in your list. Email Brett a <[email protected]> or by phone, list at <[email protected]> or send it by 940-594-5557. The success of our sale depends on mail to 320 Lincoln Street, Sterling NE 68443. If our donations. We hope that moving the sale into you like, you may download and print the handy July will allow more members to contribute. form from our website, under the Resources tab. Our Guardian Gardens Network continues to Charlie Carver, our Variety ID Chair, is grow. We now have 30+ members, and we’re heading up a very important survey of Miniature actively growing over 1,600 cultivars for Dwarf Bearded (MDB) irises. The possible dissemination. We need more iris lovers who are extinction rate on these irises is shocking, perhaps willing to give some of these rare irises a home. as high as 75% or more. Please let Charlie know which MDBs you grow. HIPS members haven’t been surveyed yet, and it’s certain that they are growing some of the missing irises. Find details starting on page 18. Enjoy your irises! Cathy Egerer, HIPS President a ANNOUNCEMENTS 2020 AIS Centennial Logo: This gorgeous logo was created by our own HIPS member Lori Galletti. Congratulations, Lori! You may all remember Lori as the collector of Bertrand Farr irises and memorabilia, and one hard-working lady. We sure hope the AIS will be selling tote bags and T-shirts with this logo on them! ROOTS, Volume 29, Issue 1 3 Spring 2016 particular class, hybridizer, or color pattern Membership Drive 2016 (amoena, plicata, luminata, etc.) would be a great WE NEED NEW MEMBERS! The 2016 asset. We do not require that you have a lot of HIPS Membership Drive will run from now until experience identifying irises; we will train you. September 1, 2016. Earn points and win rare Interested? Write to ID Chair Charles Carver historic iris rhizomes! You will earn one point for <[email protected]> or call (360) each NEW one-year member or e-member you 376-6109 (Pacific Time Zone). recruit, and three points for each NEW three-year member. First Prize, for the highest number of points, will be ten rare rhizomes you select from a Looking for Rescuers: The front lines of list from the Pickle Barrel Collection; Second Prize HIPS’s preservation activities are the rescues that will be seven rhizomes; Third Prize will be five. take place yearly of gardens in distress, gardens Have the new member join as usual. You, as whose creators want their irises to have new homes the recruiter, send a list of the new members you and owners better able to take care of them. For recruited to the editor by mail or email (see each rescue, volunteers gather for a day or a Contacts). Prize-winners will be notified & may weekend to do the work of digging and dispersing choose to receive irises this fall or next spring. irises lovingly amassed by collectors just like us. Winners will also be announced in the Fall 2016 HIPS is striving to enhance our ability to respond to ROOTS. such events by identifying in advance, all across If each of you could sign up just one new North America, iris devotees who could join rescue member, think how historic irises would benefit. teams in every region. If you have an interest in Enthusiasm is catching. See if you can inspire at rescue work, please contact our Cultivar least one new person with the love of old irises. a Preservation Chairman, Douglass Paschall, at <[email protected]>. BLISS IRISES: Family and Flowers; The Journey to a National Collection, a book about Online Renewal & Email Addresses: Arthur J. Bliss, written our own Anne Milner, will Over the next few months, we will add all be published in August, 2016. A. J. Bliss was a membership information to our secure online cousin of Anne’s grandfather. We database and confirm the emails we have on file. will have more in our Fall 2016 issue Yes, we will protect your about how to order this book; in the privacy. Our goal is to send an meantime, for more information, see: electronic newsletter <troubador.co.uk/book_info.asp?boo periodically to keep members kid=3981>. updated on the latest news. HIPS Launches PBF The Pollen Project: The AIS has started a Study: Read all about it! See page wonderful project for 38 of this issue. hybridizers to share pollen. One of the many reasons to ID Committee: HIPS is preserve old irises is to keep assembling an ID Committee, to the gene pool alive, just as include representatives with people do with vegetables. If expertise or familiarity for each of you are a hybridizer or if you the iris classes.