Re: HIST: ID-ing unknowns

Yep, that has worked for some of the irises I have gotten from this
lady.  I find what I think is a match, then order one for comparison.  I
don't have a complete collection of Schreiner's catalogs, but have
several spanning the 60s & 70s.  I've ordered BARCELONA for comparison
with the tough old variegata, based on haft markings, pedigree (it's a
half sib to LIGHTNING RIDGE, another old toughie here), even tho the
checklist description doesn't really match.  Grasping at straws....But
don't see anything to try to ID the bronze-rust one.

At least one of the irises I've gotten from her is not in the catalogs
that I have - CORAL BEAUTY (thanks to Chuck Chapman, I think, for ID -
verified by purchased plant).  Two possibilities - she's gotten at least
one iris from another source, or it was only sold by Schreiners for 3 or
4 years in a time frame for which I don't happen to have a catalog.

<...if you think they are from Schreiners then maybe you can
                   look thru old Schreiner's catalogs.  I am sure that
there are lots of old
                   copies out there because none of us would ever throw
away those iris
                   pictures!!    Lorraine Nicholson>

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