REF: hybridizer locations (was trivia New Moon)

Yes, the information is in the backs of the R&I's and 10 yr checklists, but my question is whether or not anyone has scanned/typed it into a <database>.
I like to go data 'mining' sometimes, & usually look up location where seedlings were hybridized at the same time I do pedigree searches. It would just make it easier if the hybridizer's names and locations were all in a database.
After I saw all those hybridizers who had used New Moon, I wondered what kind of climate they were in - were they all in summer dry climates or was NEW MOON being used equally in midcontinental erratic temperatures and eastern wet? Anybody want to look up the locations for the 50+ hybridizers who used NM? <g>
I used to think that a particular cultivar that showed up in a lot of pedigrees of irises that were survivors here (and more often vice versa) meant that a particular cultivar had "special" (either bad or good) traits. Now I'm wondering whether the growing conditions in the places where the iris was selected was more important.
For example, WHOLE CLOTH is in the pedigrees of a <lot> of cultivars that are survivors here, but WC barely stays alive for me and has <not> produced strong seedlings in the few crosses I've made. Of the more than 250 (more than NEW MOON) cultivars with WC in the pedigree in the online database, hardly any were from summer dry climate hybridizers whose names I recognize, big exception being Schreiners (25 cultivars).
Just curious, thinking about how we have wound up with such disparity between survivors in one climate vs another, use of 'benchmark' irises that are a major improvement in something or other. 


Has anybody put together a searchable/sortable database for where
various hybridizers were breeding & selecting their introductions?  It
would help in evaluating pedigrees for potential climate tolerance.

Linda  --  Can't you get this information pretty easily by checking the addresses of the hybridizers and introducers in the appendices of the decennial Iris Check Lists?  Or do I misunderstand your question?  --  Griff


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