Re: [AISdiscuss] Putting 'Basic Iris Culture' booklet on the AIS web page

[Paul W Gossett <pwgossett@juno.com>]

Kitty,

Good suggestion.  The Tulsa club sells them for $1 and we sold around 60
this year at our two shows.  We also have free handouts but, we encourage
them to buy the book as it might be easier to locate.

Paul

On Wed, 17 May 2006 08:04:18 -0700 "Loberg" <loberg@adelphia.net> writes:
>    When my club does their show and puts on our summer sale, one of 
> the 
> important functions we have is to provide the visitors and buyers 
> with 
> information on how to grow irises.   The public always has questions 
> on 
> "what they are doing wrong" when their irises aren't blooming, or 
> how to 
> plant this new rhizome they're getting.    We try to have the Basic 
> Iris 
> Culture booklet available, but often the public isn't ready to buy 
> booklets, 
> they're just interested in getting the rhizomes.
> 
>    The AIS web page has a lot of wonderful information but not that 
> much 
> about iris culture (only a nice short article by Betty Wood).   Our 
> club 
> just can't seem to sell the Basic Iris Culture, even at $1.50, and 
> we don't 
> have enough club funds to just hand it out to everyone.   The 
> booklet isn't 
> that big, and it does have some diagrams and specific articles by 
> iris type, 
> which would be very helpful to the internet public.   Any chance of 
> putting 
> this small publication into .pdf format and placing it on the AIS 
> web page? 
> People could print it off if they liked, at their own printing cost. 
>   It 
> could get this booklet more widely distributed, and make good 
> culture 
> information readily available 365 days a year.
> 
> Kitty Loberg
> 
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