Re: Protocol
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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