Re: [AISdiscuss] Protocol

[CEMahan@aol.com]

In a message dated 11/19/2005 9:43:22 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
Florabetty@aol.com writes:

Bob, I  agree with you on this point, and Clarence, you have always been a 
perfect  gentleman. We missed you in Minneapolis!



Welcome to the AIS Board, Bob. I think I understand the message now and  
appreciate your effort to enlighten me, Betty.  I do, however, think  you go too 
far when you say I have always been a perfect gentleman. That is not  the image 
I am trying to cultivate in my dotage.   
 
I assume everyone on the Board knows that the Italian Iris Society is  
planning a symposium on garden irises in conjunction with its annual competition  in 
2006. Maretta Colasante invited me to submit a paper to the symposium, and I  
just competed and sent it to her. It is titled "The Father of Garden Iris  
Culture" and it explains how Christiane Filloles, Anne Marie Chesnais and I were 
 able through research to discover biographical information on  
Marie-Guillaume de Bure, the man who launched the iris as a  popular garden flower in 
France in the 1820s. The first chapter of my book on  the early history of garden 
irises, which is now being edited by the publisher,  is a biography of de Bure 
and his famous iris 'Buriensis'. 
 
I was very pleased with the action of the Board to give the Warburton Medal  
to the Italian Iris Society and Prof. Orsi, Margaret Cameron Longo and Valeria 
 Romoli. Well done, Board! 
Ciao, Clarence

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