Re: HIST: old IB
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- Subject: Re: HIST: old IB
- From: M* C*
- Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 15:52:53 -0800
From: "Melf, Carolyn" <CMELF@csuchico.edu>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff and Carolyn Walters [SMTP:cwalters@digitalpla.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 1998 2:12 PM
> To: iris-talk@onelist.com
> Subject: [iris-talk] Re: HIST: old IB
>
> From: "Jeff and Carolyn Walters" <cwalters@digitalpla.net>
>
> Dan Mason writes:
>
> >
> > The "Bowers unknown" from Betty and Glenn Bowers of
> > Pennsylvania in the "unknown" section of the Historical part
> > of the above website is very similar to the old IB which I
> > wrote recent messages about as growing better (less problem
> > with borers) when not cleanly cultivated.
>
> Dan,
>
> The AIS recognizes three classes of bearded irises with stalks taller than
> the upper limit for SDB's (15") and shorter than the lower limit for TB's
> (28"). They are the Border Beardeds (BB's), Intermediate Beardeds (IB's),
> and the Miniature Tall Beardeds (MTB's). As the defining characteristic of
> IB's among these three classes is that they bloom before the TB's, your
> iris is almost certainly not an IB by current definition. Most of the
> older, smaller-flowered diploid bearded irises are now classified as
> MTB's.
>
>
> > This local IB when blooming I have noticed near several
> > homes along the main highway at this west end of the Rainy
> > River Valley. In the eastern end of the district and in Ft.
> > Frances I've noticed many homes growing a similar iris, only
> > the falls are more brick reddish than purplish, the plants
> > are slightly taller, and bloom several days later.
>
> These "eastern" irises sound like a derivative of I. variegata, perhaps
> the
> widely grown cultivar, HONORABILE (Lemon, 1840). I am less able to
> speculate as to the identity of the iris you are growing.
>
> Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4, Sunset Zone 2)
> cwalters@digitalpla.net
>
>
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