Re: Descriptions
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: Descriptions
- From: m*@tricities.net (Mike Lowe)
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 15:39:01 -0600 (MDT)
Gayla asks...
>I just bought a few iris from a sale....can anyone help me with descriptions.
On the HIPS website <http://www.tricities.net/~mikelowe/> in 'Quick Fixes'
you will find photos of:
BLUE SHIMMER
GRAND CANYON
LADY MOHR
RASPBERRY RIBBON
VIOLET HARMONY
You will have a one year jump on anticipating these.
Incidentally -- one caveat on the assumption that finding the name of an
iris in a pedigree of a recent (...-95-96-97) iris means that the oldie is
still being employed in recent crosses -- it ain't necessarily so!
If you see: ('old iris' X 'old iris') indeed, the hybridizer did use the
historicals as pod and pollen parents of her/his new baby.
But, if you were to see the following hypothetical cross (partial):
(((Sable x Violet Harmony) x (Lilac Lane x (Grand Canyon x Violet Harmony
sib)) x Chantilly) x Curtain Call) X .... it is a different story.
Here the pod parent represents a complicated, multi-generation seedling
where the pedigree shown is taken back to named iris rather than leaving
the reader floundering with cryptic seedling numbers. You will see this in
the lineages of hybridzers who use foundation stock 'studs' with no intent
of ever introducing these breeders. The 'deep' crosses you see listed above
may have been done 30 years ago.
Mike mikelowe@tricities.net http://www.tricities.net/~mikelowe/
http://www.worldiris.com