Re: Re: HYB: wide falls
- Subject: Re: [iris] Re: [iris-talk] HYB: wide falls
- From: Sandra Barss b*@mb.sympatico.ca
- Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 05:31:19 -0800
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World Premier is another one with wide falls.
Sandra
SE Manitoba
Zone 3
wmoores wrote:
>Linda, go to iris-photos, June 25, 2002 and look at Merle Roberts'
>97-88a. This should put some width into your seedlings. Beg,
>plead, etc. for a piece.
>
>Walter Moores
>Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8
>
>On 1 Dec 2002 at 17:30, Linda Mann wrote:
>
>
>
>>More questions...
>>
>>Catalogs occasionally describe flowers as wide/broad or hafts
>>touching/nearly touching/overlapping.
>>
>>I'm on the lookout for some affordable cultivars with broader hafts to
>>cross with some of my tough oldies. I've hunted thru catalogs looking
>>for introductions described as having wide falls/touching hafts and
>>then did a few pedigrees to see if there were some parents that showed
>>up a lot, without much luck.
>>
>>SILVERADO shows up in several. Farther back, NEW MOON is in several.
>>Lots of Gatty cultivars show up, but the catalogs I've studied have
>>mostly westcoast/Oz breeding, so that's not surprising.
>>
>>Are Gatty cultivars known for wide falls?
>>
>>Any ideas on which cultivars have made a significant contribution to
>>wider falls?
>>
>>Any suggestions/ideas/help appreciated.
>>
>>
>
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