IRISES: The Bulletin of the American Iris Society
Volume 99, No. 2, Series No. 389, Spring 2018
Contents
2018 AIS & SLI CONVENTIONS PREVIEW
Front Cover: ‘Summer Honey’ (Betty Wilkerson 2013,
TB-Re) by Carole Buchheim. See Betty Wilkerson story
on page 12.
Back Cover: ‘Billowing Waves’ (Keith Keppel 2015, TB) by Jim
Morris. See Prelude to New York 2020 story on page 24.
FEATURES
12 “A Bridge In Time” Betty Wilkerson, Cool
Season Rebloom Hybridizer by Mike Lockatell
22 Looking Ahead by Jim Morris
24 Prelude to New York 2020 by Jim Morris
30 In Continued Search of Red Iris by Terry Aitken
44 Ask the Vets reprint from The Medianite Spring 2006
DEPARTMENTS
5 Insurance
9 Remembering Friends by Jim Morris
10 Section Happenings compiled by Phyllis Wilburn
16 Youth Views by Cheryl Deaton
23 AIS & Section Convention News
IN EVERY ISSUE
5 Editor’s Message / Errata
6 Officers/Masthead/Membership info
8 AIS President’s Message by Gary White
18 Donations
34 Directory (includes committees, RVPs & sections)
35 Section Membership Rates
36 AIS Storefront
38 Shopping Section
43 Advertising Rates
45 Photo Credits
INDEX OF ADVERTISERS
2 Iris City Gardens
3 Long’s Gardens
7 Hillcrest Iris Gardens
9 Essex County Presby Memorial Iris Gardens
20 Sutton’s Iris Gardens
21 Breezeway Iris Garden
21 Hillcrest Iris Gardens
22 Winterberry Gardens
23 Tall Bearded Iris Society
23 British Iris Society
33 Schreiner’s Iris Gardens
44 Lauer’s Flowers
46 Aitken’s Salmon Creek Garden
47 Stout Gardens at Dancingtree
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