Sweet Lena versus.....

I do not say it is impossible, but I find it very difficult to believe that
SWEET LENA is any more fragrant than the old form of I. pallida var.
"Odoratissima", first collected and described by Jacquin in 1797....or for
that matter, any more fragrant than the delightful Iris graminea, which has a
heavy fruity scent described by some as ripe plums or ripe apricots.  I also
agree with Phil Edinger views on the registration of this old cultivar...if
an iris is not bred by an iris breeder or collected in the wild it should not
be permitted to be registered.  Otherwise, for example, someone could find
VANITY in the garden of a home one buys, and register it as "Pinky Pink
Pink." Clarence Mahan in VA
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