Re: HIST: CAROL MCKEE


On Mon, 7 Aug 2000 hipsource@aol.com wrote:

> <<   I have been contacted and asked if I know anyone who has a historic iris 
> named Carol McKee.   It is listed as a 1939 iris.    Any chance anyone knows 
> of someone who has this iris?   Thanks.>>
> 
> The 1939 AIS Check List indicates that this was an interspecific spuria cross
> (Spuria Aurea X I. ochroleuca) registered by Wilding in 1931 but not 
> introduced. No record of introduction in the 49CL.
> Anner Whitehead

This sounds like something worth trying again. Does anyone have both
Spuria Aurea and I ochroleuca? Good luck to anyone who tries it. Hope to
hear news about a new cross of these two.

-- 
Diana Louis <dlouis@dynamicro.on.ca> 
Zone 4/5 Newmarket, Ontario, Canada 
AIS, CIS, SIGNA, IRIS-L, Canadian Wildflower Soc.



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