Re: Deciduous irises
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- Subject: Re: Deciduous irises
- From: "* G* C* <j*@erols.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 21:18:10 -0700 (MST)
Ian E. & Shirley Efford wrote:
>
> with reference to Jeff's comments "I am able to trace LIVE JAZZ back 10
> times to I. pumila". . .
>
He also mentioned "Carpathia" "From seed collected in Transylvania."
>
> As the seeds were collected in the wild, did anyone determine the
> species? Carpathia is not mentioned in Dykes, Mathew or the BIS Guide
> nor can I find it in the other standard references, suggesting that it
> is not considered by the authors as either a species or a synonym.
> Ellen said that Carpathia "was introduced by Schreiners. It is also
> described as 4" (10 cm)". Even if it was introduced, surely someone at
> the time must have had a stab at identifying the species.
>
>
Ian -- Molly Price, in The Iris Book (1966), describes Carpathia as a
pale yellow "pure pumila". On page 59, she writes: "The first true
pumilas in this country were grown about twenty-five years ago by Robert
Schreiner from seeds he had imported from Rumania. His three named
clones -- blue-violet 'Sulina', reddish 'Nana', and yellow 'Carpathia'
-- are still used extensively in breeding small irises. Before that
time, nobody had identified the dwarf species correctly, and all dwarfs
were called pumilas."
Griff Crump, along the tidal Potomac near Mount Vernon, VA
jgcrump@erols.com
