HIST: LORELEY-Classification
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- Subject: HIST: LORELEY-Classification
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- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 09:44:58 EDT
From: <HIPSource@aol.com>
In a message dated 98-08-20 08:28:02 EDT, you write:
<< I, too have seen LORELEY listed as an MTB in at least one Catalog.
However, when I grew it in Kentucky, it always reached TB height, but
bloomed with the bounty of an MTB. Does anyone know what this Iris is
officially classified as? >>
This question has arisen in this forum before. We discussed it on on May 27,
1997. The 1939 AIS Checklist classifies LORELEY (Goos u. Koenemann, 1909) as
a TB, however not all the height classifications we use today were used at
that time and one of the challenges the fanciers of the shorter historic face
is the determination of the best category for descriptive purposes.
According to what Rick Tasco told us here before, in an article written in the
Winter 1996-97 issue of The Medianite, Jean Witt and Phil Edinger categorized
LORELEYas a Border Bearded (BB) which is a class of smaller irises which bloom
with the TBs but do not have the same petite, precisely scaled-down
proportions of an MTB. JUNGLE SHADOWS is the archtypal BB. Furthermore, in an
earlier article in ROOTS listing those historics which would now be considered
MTBs, LORELY was not included. The proportion requirements for an MTB are
rather strict and, as I know it, LORELEY does not meet them.
Anner Whitehead
Commercial Source Chairman
Historic Iris Preservation Society
HIPSource@aol.com
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