Re: Re: HYB: pallida X swertii
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: HYB: pallida X swertii
- From: C* M*
- Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 12:05:55 +0930
A few years ago I crossed I Pallida with Olymparico.
I got some beautiful cream to light yellow seedlings with Pallida shape but
with modern substance. I want to do a bit more work on this, so as to be
able get the old fashioned shape for cottage gardens but with a much more
substanstial flower.
Colleen Modra
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From: linda Mann <lmann@mailhub.icx.net>
To: iris-talk@egroups.com <iris-talk@egroups.com>
Date: Saturday, 22 April 2000 10:04
Subject: [iris-talk] Re: HYB: pallida X swertii
>> I just crossed I.Pallida U ? with Swertii pollen. Don't know what
I'll get if anything. Cheers from MO. Mary C. Brown
>
>Walter Moores might be able to guess at this one - I think he may have
>made some crosses with Swertii at one time. As Anner sez, I've made a
>number of pallida crosses with modern TBs with a high rate of success.
>As high as or higher than my modern TBs crossed with each other.
>Sometimes I wonder if what we grow in this part of the world in every
>abandoned field and farmlot really is pallida - supposed to be a
>diploid, but it sure is happy to set seeds with with tetraploid papas
>and is extraordinarily more robust than any of the other diploid species
>or cultivars I've gotten hold of.
>
>Keep us posted on what comes from your cross. And if you know of a
>source for additional pallida cultivars, please let me/us know.
>Adamgrove used to have them but seems to have vanished from view.
>
>Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
>
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