RE: Fwd: Iris from 1930's

["Janet Smith" <ypauls@sti.net>]

I am going to copy this and put it on Iris Photo, there are a lot of
folks who read that and they just might be growing a Wm Mohr to share!

Janet Smith
California

---- Original Message ----
From: waynecjr@bellsouth.net
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Subject: [AISdiscuss] Fwd: Iris from 1930's
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:58:38 -0500

>Dear You'all and Those Who Are Smarter Than I,
>Does anyone know a source for William Mohr?
>THANKING IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR RESPONSE(s)
>Yours in Iris,
>Wayne C. Smith, Jr. RVP Region 5
>
>Sent from my iPad
>
>Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Robert Howell <f86-b52@att.net>
>> Date: January 28, 2013, 3:21:10 PM EST
>> To: " Jr.Wayne C. Smith" <waynecjr@bellsouth.net>
>> Subject: Iris from 1930's
>>
>>
>> Dear Sir:  To introduce myself - I am a retired AF Col. and live in
>Batesburg.  Moved here in 2010 after 36 years as an antique dealer
>following
>24 years as an AF pilot.  As a younster growing up in NW Iowa, I had
>some
>Aunts who raised iris and they gave me one when I was probably about
>10 (born
>in 1929 and currently 83) . It was a Wm. Mohr and I entered one of
>the blooms
>in a local flower show and won a 1st prize.  I have always wanted to
>have
>another, but a military life didn't help to set out iris bulbs. 
>Anyway, I
>have been trying to find one of the growers that might still have a
>Wm. Mohr.
>Had one from Calif., ;but lost the paper work and they didn't publish
>a
>ctalog.  So tried thru the Historicaql Iris Society and that is a
>very
>difficult web site to navigate to found a name - Jeff Walters who was
>listed
>as the Commercial lead man and he lived like a neighbor in
>Spartanburg so
>called and got him.   He said he had been out of that job for nearly
>2 years
>and recommended I contact you in my effot to find a grower that still
>raised
>Wm. Mohn.  If you can be any assistance in that regard, please drop
>me an
>E-mail.  Any help you can give will be appreciated.  Robert D.
>Howell, Col,
>USAF (Ret.)
>
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