RE: Re: HYB: HIST: umbrata
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- Subject: RE: [iris-talk] Re: HYB: HIST: umbrata
- From: J* R*
- Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 13:31:06 -0800
Isn't Liaison (Ghio) another one of those? Same heritage?
John Reeds
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> From: Linda Mann[SMTP:lmann@icx.net]
> Reply To: iris-talk@egroups.com
> Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 1:31 PM
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> Subject: [iris-talk] Re: HYB: HIST: umbrata
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> I did a quick search thru the registration and introduction (R&I) books
> for cultivars carrying the umbrata pattern in parentages of
> <Ringo, Escatic Echo, Magic Man, Magharee, Outrageous Fortune, Bristo
> Magic, Latin Lady, Sweeter than Wine, Crimson Snow, Spin Off, &
> Impressionist..>
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> They all trace back to WINE AND ROSES which dead ends there - all the
> R&I says is that it was a 1963 Hall introduction from seedlings of the
> same pattern. Anybody have any more information on possible parentages
> involved in WINE AND ROSES? What I'm interested in is whether or not
> there might be opportunities to pull out that same color pattern from
> the same older, tougher cultivars he might have used, crossed with
> really recent cultivars, to increase the genetic diversity in that color
> pattern, if all the modern versions really come from WINE AND ROSES.
>
> I didn't look up HEAVENLY BODY, SO FINE, VIVA LA FRANCE or WABASH yet.
> Another really pretty historic iris with that pattern is..oh rats..it's
> like WABASH, only in much redder tones (help, Donald Eaves, you know the
> one I mean...)
>
> Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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