JANE MILLIMAN, NEW YORK Editor’s Message
It sure is winter here in
upstate New York. The
Polar Vortex is bearing
down on us, schools
are all closed, and the
thermometer reads …
one degree. One! The
lowest it has gotten
in my garage, to the
best of my knowledge,
is 15 degrees—but
I have iris rhizomes
in there—in a plastic
grocery store bag. I am
not holding out a lot of
hope for their survival.
The good news is that spring is getting
closer every day, and with that comes
AIS Convention, April 23–27 in Northern
California, where you know the
weather will be divine!
We’ll have more about that in the next
issue, so stay tuned. And thanks, as
always, for reading!
Left: This fall I visited India, but didn’t see
any irises. There were a lot of cut lilies!
Editor Jane Milliman
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OMISSIONS AND ERRATA
From the Fall 2018 IRISES:
Page 5
In Omissions and Errata, both occurances of 1018 should be 2018.
Page 28
Perry Dyer was the first winner of the AIS Clarke
Cosgrove Youth Achievement Award in 1973.
Page 29
The donation in memory of Anne Lowe should have been
in honor of Anne Lowe. Anne is very much still with us.
We apologize to her for the mistake.
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Winter 2019 AIS Bulletin 5