HIST: Origin of Early Hybrids
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- Subject: HIST: Origin of Early Hybrids
- From: J* a* C* W*
- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 08:09:13 -0600
From: "Jeff and Carolyn Walters" <jcwalters@bridgernet.com>
> From: James Brooks
> Of course any species iris, such as <italic>Iris germanica </italic>would
> also qualify. Hybridized introductions, probably beginning with
> Honorabile, go right to the beginning of your period.
James,
I am not sure that "hybridized" is the correct term to use with iris
cultivars originating in the Honorabile-Madame Chereau era (mid-nineteeth
century). It is my understanding that these cultivars and others of that
era resulted from sowing the seeds from bee pods and making selections
among the resulting seedlings - not exactly the process of hybridizing as
we understand it today, which only began to be practiced towrd the end of
the nineteenth century.
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4/5, Sunset Zone 2)
jcwalters@bridgernet.com
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