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Penngrove CA 9495~ PUBLICATIONS SALES: Alan McMu~tr1e 22 Calderon Crescent Willowdale, Ontario, Canada M2R 2E5 SIGNA EDITOR : .Joan Cooper 212 W. Count~ Rd. C Roseville MN 55113 SIGNA PUBLISl-!ER:. Bruce Richardson 7 249 Twenty Road, RR 2 Hannon, Ontario, Canada L0R !Pe CONTENTS--APRIL, 1986--NO. 36 CHAIRMAN'S MESSAGE Elaine HL\l ber t 1261 PUBLICATI~NS AVAILABLE Al an McMwn tr ie 12c)1 SEED EXCHANGE REPORT David & Merry Haveman 1262 HONORARY LIFE MEMBERSHIPS El a ine? HLtlbert 1263 INDEX REPORTS Eric Tankesley-Clarke !263 SPECIES REGISTRATIONS--1985 Jean Witt 124-4' - SLIDE COLLECTION REPORT Col in Rigby 1264 TREASURER'S REPORT Gene (>pton 1264, NOMINATING COMMITTEE REPORT Sharon McAllister 1295 IRIS SOURCES UPDATE Alan McMurtrie 1266 QUESTIONS PLEASE '-Toan Cooper 1266 NEW TAXA OF l,P,IS L . FROM CHINA Zhao Yu·-· tang 1.26? ERRATA & ADDENDA ,Jim Rhodes 1269 IRIS BRAI\ICHil\iG IN TWO MOl~E SPECIES Jean Witt 1270 TRIS SPECIES FOR SHALLOW WATER Eberhard Schuster 1271 JAPANESE WILD IRISES Dr. Norman Track 1275 A THEORY ON FRAGRANCE Homer Metcalf 1277 Mel.ELAND'S VEnSIVA HYBRIDS---IR ~S X ROBIJS1_1 Roy Davidson 127.8 WHAT'S NEW IN THE WATER GARDEN Roy Davidson 1279 FURTHER NOTE ON IRI~ HEXAGOhlA Ro!:! Davidson 1280 REVIEW : THE PROBLEM OF SPECIES IN NORTHERN BLUE ~LAGS Robert S . Sturtevant 1282 NEW IDENTITY OF HHS 'GERALD Df\R:BY'. · Ro1.,1 Davidson 1283 COMMENT : IRIS PRESERVATION Elaine HLtlbert t284 IRIS SPECIES NATIVE TO NORTH AMERICA Ei•nest G. B . Luscombe 12S5 EDITOR'S COMMENTS j·oan Cooper 130(2) 1261 CHAIRMAN I S I4ESSAGE Everybody nowadays acknowledges the importance of preserving species and varieties of natural forms . Sometimes we act as if ~e were not aware. The uniformity of agricultural crops and forest plantations is going to be even more rigid when--soon--cloned forms of corn and white pine take over. We are assured that there is a bank somewhere with lots of wild maize and white-pine genes, in case they are needed; in the meantime a forest will come to be about as interesting as a box of toothpicks, Cloning is in fact now offered as a service by at least one laboratory to iris growers like you and me• Do I have a rare form I'd· l~ke propagated? They'll do ~t--but at a high price, and only after I can give them enough plant material to assure them of a rewarding mass production. This service could be a boon to species fanciers some day, just as commercial flask production has revolutionized orchid growing. Let us hope meanwhile that the same technology does not turn too many untidy places on earth into the kind of stiff projects you already see sometimes in parts of our West and Southeast· and in northern Europe, where one variety of tree in straight rows · shel·=.ers one species of bird, one species of rodent, one understory herb (not likely an iris), and i:me insect pest that is perfectly placed to wipe out the whole plantation in one year of explosive overpopulation--after which it is back to the old gene bank. Iris gr011ers can ~ydream about the cloning offer, and their own gene-storage bank, and another technological boo.:i.--if it does not turn out a bust, and if it is ever field-tested at all--the bacterial agent that is said - to retard frost. Every gardener has thought -how many more things he could raise if he had just a few more frost-free days. Laboratories now can do much with the analysis of DNA as an aid to taxomony. Techniques are not nearly refined _enough yet to trace the relationships of species, but it is interesting 'to think l1ow some day it will be possible to draw up set and certain family trees of these relationships, It will rather dampen the fun in one direction, where taxonomists and amateurs alike have been free to speculater but it should open up new possibilities in the other direction, suggesting new hybridization programs and predicting the likelihood of new spontaneous forms. Elaine Hulhert--Floyd, Virginia February 7, 1986 PtnJ~ICATIONS AVAILABLE Back Issues # 1 0 t:o current '· ( except 16) $1 • 50 each (we are out of issues #1 to #9 and #16) Species Study Manual $5.00 Make checks or money oraers payahle to SIGNA. :"'!ail to Alan McMurtrie (address insiae the front cover), Publications will he sent out by Alan, Anyone interested in a full set of back issues shoul<i tel,l Alan. If we have enough demand, we might r.eprint, 1262 SEED EXCHANGE REPORT David and Merry Haveman February 28, 1986 We first want to acknowledge and thank those contributors whose seed was received after November 15, too late to be included on the regular list. These are the code letters their seed was -identified by: Maurice Boussard BO Eric Tankesley-Clarke TC Denver Bot. Gardens Sarah Tiffney TF (Panayoti Kelaides) DB Martha Wilkins WI Samuel Norris NO John Wood WO Nigel Service SE Late contributions gave us 110 additional selections to use as substitutes and extras. At this time we have 32 selections available from the original list and 39 available from the later arrivals. we made up approximately 4500 packages of seed and filled 151 orders. Of these orders, 31 were sent to addresses outside the United States. Following are the TOP TEN most popular on the list, including the number of packages available and the number of orders received: Available Orders 1 - #224 verna 5 41 2 - 199 setosa alba 1 'Kosho-en' 41 38 3 - 010 reichenbachii 4 35 4 - 216 lactea 35 34 5 - 192 nelsonii 6 33 225 confusa 31 33 6 107 munzii 23 32 240 foetidissil<Ja. "Citrina" 35 32 7 - 095 hartwegii 28 31 110 tenax 30 31 131 pontica 29 31 226 milesii 30 31 You can see that some of these were in very · short supply. A few others that were also popular and in short supply are: astrachanica, all Hexapogons, bracteata, purdyi, demitrii, iliensis and prismatica alba. We made two changes in the list this year. We more clearly identified which selections were collected wild or hand pollenated and we listed each contribution separately so that each package was identified by donor. Following is a brief, preliminary financial statement: Income $ 999.54 Expenses: Printing and Maili~g List $ 260.32 Supplies 161. 29 Postage 123.56 Net Profit $ 454.37 Note: Value of supplies on band is approximately $70. Our notice in the AIS Bulletin has already resulted in 16 requests for the list. These will go out with an updated order form listing seed still available and an invitation to join SIGNA. A final TKANK YOU to all of our seed donors, for without them there would be no Seed Exchange. 1263 HONORARY LIFE -MEMBERSHIPS · ~ . ... .. , · • • • ' 1 • .I, ! •. Elaine Hulbert . .. .. , . The story of the founding of SIGNA is well told by Bruce ·Richardson on Page One of our ilrst issue. As you flip through that one and subsequent numbers, you realize that -s. R. • s name is on every single title page, as edi.tor, lat~r p~J,isher, and frequently, contributor. Almost as unvacying is that top . line, "CHAIRMAN.'.: •••• B. Leroy Davidson," which stayed up there from 19-6Ekto 19°78_. ··. Th·e notes and corrections signed "Roy Davidson" are, .it tµrns out,a -.by the same guy. i A ·strange new officer turns up in 1970 as "Scientific Liaison Director, " but· ·- Homer N. Metcalf soon settles into the more conventional slot of Secretary-Treasure~, where he remains until 1978, although his scientific expertise continues to appear until the present day. The Seed Exchange was run by Jean Witt from 1972 until 1978, the year she became Chairman. If you begin to count the words--and in Jean's and _Roy's case, the drawings--these four have contributed to the thirty-five issues of SIGNA, you soon realize that there would literally not have been a species iris magazine without them. In a small way, we of the present SIGNA executive are showing appreciation for their work ( and play) -in our midst by making the four of .th.em -.:...13RUCE RICHARDSON, B. LE ROY DAVIDSON, JEAN WITT and HOMER METCALF-- HONORARf'L:CFE ' MEMBERS • . ,. INDEX REPORT ·, The index is coming along, but I can't say when it will be finished • . The -·· index will be somewhat more detailed than earlier .ones, but not so that it becomes unwielq.y. It will be in basically the same format, with . main headings for Author, Title, and Subject. However, there will be some _major subheads which have not appeared before, or which will be expanded. I plan to show all illustrations indexed under one of these subheadings, as w~ll as indicated under the other appropriate entries. Thus, illustrations will be indexed at least twice. There will be a geographical grouping.
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