HIST: 'Susan Bliss' and other pallida pinks

I have a fondness for the pinks in the *pallida* types, and have 
loved growing several of them over the years.  I have, thanks to 
Linda Mann, only one in the color range right now, but it is 
conspiculously intermediate between *variegata* and *pallida* in 
plant type.  'Pink Ruffles'has the *pallida* pink color from its 
*pallida* type parent'Eros,' but inherits its plant habit and form 
from the pod parent 'No-we-ta'which it closely resembles.

With the *pallida* pink 'Thais' the registered pollen parent of the 
tetraploid 'Snow Flurry' one might expect some influence in 'Snow 
Flurry's' offspring, and I believe that is exactly what shows 
in 'Patience.'  Judging from its parentage I suspect there is a light 
cream or ivory yellow under the *pallida* pink pigment.  The 
resulting color is beautiful and has never been repeated to my 
knowledge in a more modern iris.  Part of the presentation 
in 'Patience' is due to its surface texture--a feature it shares with 
many 'Snow Flurry' descendants.

Mary Tharp, a hybridizer and judge from the early years of the AIS, 
never believed the parentage of 'Snow Flurry.' The improbability of a 
tetraploid resulting from a cross in which the diploid parent is on 
the pollen side convinced her that the pollen parent was one of 
the "California blues" tracing back strongly to *mesopotamica* and 
other closely allied species.

I have never doubted the parentage from 'Thais,' myself, due to the 
*pallida*-like stem and paper sheaths 'Snow Flurry' shows, as well as 
the *pallida* foliage color and plant habit.  It is so conspicuously 
*pallida*-like one cannot miss noticing the resemblence.

Neil Mogensen  z 7 western NC





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