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American Iris Society (AIS)
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Welcome to the American Iris
Society (AIS) website. We hope that you will find this website
an informative and helpful resource to all kinds of iris
information. The American
Iris Society is a nonprofit institution incorporated February 2, 1927, in the County of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania. By the terms of
the Charter, the Corporation has no stockholders and exists for the
sole purpose of promoting the culture and improvement of the Iris.
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Photo: PAUL BLACK a
2003 tall bearded iris introduction by hybridizer Thomas Johnson.
Dykes Medal winner 2010, Wister Medal 2009, AM 2007, HM 2005. At the
2004 AIS Convention in Fresno, California, this iris was voted most the
popular iris seen in convention gardens from a hybridizer outside of the
host region (AIS Region 14). For this it received the Cook Cup, an
annual award of the AIS Convention. Height= 42inches Season= Mid-Late.
This dark purple self demonstrates all around excellence. Show-bench
stems bear 11-12 triple-socketed buds. Large flowers have excellent
ruffled form and are smoothly saturated in dark purple color. The dark
orange beards create a fascinating color combination and a pronounced
spicy fragrance enhances its appeal.
(photo courtesy of Rick Tasco)
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News-Announcements
2011 Tall Bearded Iris Symposium
Ballot: (August 2010)
Seventieth Official Tall Bearded Iris Symposium of the American
Iris Society. This year the list of iris eligible for the Tall Bearded
Symposium is again being made available
here on the AIS website.
For this item and further information please go to Iris Information > AIS Tall
Bearded Symposium
Iris Encyclopedia:
(August 2010)
An exciting new AIS initiative is the Iris Encyclopedia which
is now available at the the following web location:
Iris Encyclopedia
For more information on this very interesting and useful venture please go to this
special area of the
AIS website: What is the Iris Encyclopedia?
AIS 2010 Awards announced:
(July 2010)
The full listing of 2010 AIS award winners is available now in the
AIS Awards section of the AIS website.
Congratulations to all the award winners and indeed to all those
hybridizers involved in producing awesome new iris varieties each year.
Note: As usual the Japanese Iris (JI) awards will come later in August
after the voting on this specific category is completed.

Bloomin' Bucks 2010
fundraising program:
(January 2010)
The AIS is a now a registered non-profit organization with the Bloomin'
Bucks 2010 fundraising program by Brent and Becky's Bulbs!
This is how it works: It's simple...supporters of the registered
organization, the (AIS) American Iris Society, can go to
www.bloominbucks.com and from a pull down menu of all of the
organizations registered, select
to support the AIS! One click takes you into the Brent and
Becky's Bulbs website where you can order whatever you want, in
whatever quantity you want...books, bulbs, tools, supplements, gift
certificates... anything...and a percentage of each order goes to
your organization! Every little bit helps and it all adds up to support
the AIS!
Please note: This is the only way to earn credit; go to the www.bloominbucks.com website,
then selecting to support your organization and
placing an on-line order ...so no phone orders, faxed orders, etc..
Contemporary Views by Perry Dyer
(March 2009)
The AIS website now has available a collection of Contemporary Views by Perry Dyer of Oklahoma
from 1988 to 2008. These are annual
articles involving personal observations and commentary on current
varieties of irises.
Please go to the Iris Information > Cultural
and Classification Information section of the AIS website.
Check your AIS membership status:
Need to know your membership expiration date? Need to lookup the
expiration date for club members or your Region's members for
AIS Affiliation? Easy and quick.
Please go to:
www.aislookup.org
For further details on news items
please follow the link provided or go to the Member
Services > News-Announcements area of the website to read these items of interest to the membership.
The answers to many questions on iris and
the American Iris Society (AIS) are found within the AIS website. Please direct any iris questions you
may have to your local area AIS RVP or a local iris club. These people
will be pleased to help you. A full listing of these contacts for your
area is provided under the AIS Regions
listing page on this website ...or follow the link in the sidebar.
Please send all information for website
updates to:
John I. Jones, AIS Electronic Services and Website
e-mail:
aiselectronicsvcs@irises.org
Website creative design, production and
maintenance provided by: Christopher Hollinshead,
Wolf Marketing Communications e-mail:
aiswebsite@hotmail.com
Website updated:
August 18, 2010
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