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Thanks Elm, I think it's quite clear mine isn't the correct Pass the Wine,
but it's one of my favorites so I'm not about to trash it. I'll just give it my
own name. I don't hybridize so it shouldn't cause any problems there. I'm
posting a picture of mine. Perhaps, someone might know who it really
is.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 9:57 PM
Subject: [iris-photos] re: iris
names
Pearl,
The 1999
American Iris Society Checklist describes PASS THE Wine thus:
PASS THE
WINE (B. Blyth 1985) Standards champagne with smoky lavender infusion; falls
velvety smoky red plum , 1/4" lilac rose edge; brilliant tangerine red
beard.
It is pretty much
impossible to have two iris with the same name. (Unless, of course,
someone makes a little mistake, which is VERY RARE.) I looked through
all the American Iris Society's Checklists, and there is no other Pass The
Wine. What happens, though, is that sometimes people trade irises and
pass an iris along with the wrong name. Or someone will call an iris by
a pet name of theirs and when they share that iris the name sticks. (For
example, a person gets an iris from a favorite aunt, and the aunt had called
that iris "Pink Apron" because she didn't know its name...then the person
gives it to someone else. If you look up the formal description in the
Checklist, maybe there is an iris named "Pink Apron," but the color of the
true PINK APRON isn't the color of what the person got from her aunt---now,
that creates problems.) 5 of the iris I bought last summer from 2
different sources didn't turn out to be what they were supposed to be. I
was able, with help, to determine what 1 of those truly was. The other
4, though pretty, I dug up and threw away because I couldn't pass them along
under the wrong name, nor could I hybridize with them because if introduced
any seedlings from them, and listed them as having the wrong parentage, then
that would lead fellow hybridizers astray.
Elm
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