The Historic Iris Preservation Society (HIPS) is a section of The American Iris Society devoted to growing, studying and preserving Historic Irises
It was started as a working group of individuals interested in the older irises organized by Carolee Clay, in 198X. It organized itself into an AIS section in 1988 and started publishing the bulletin "Roots". The website for HIPS is at: http://historiciris.org/
-- BobPries - 2011-06-15