HYB: TB: Sterling Silver

Ah - answers eventually come here if you wait long enough!  Thank you
Neil!

What was the question?  Well, way back ...in 1996?? after several folks
in this forum suggested that to learn which irises might thrive here, I
needed to study pedigrees, I found that several irises showed up
repeatedly in pedigrees of the most reliable, tough irises that I grew.
At the time, I had no way of knowing whether those ancestors were
sources of some "holy grail" of tough, ancestral genes, resurfacing in
modern irises, or if they were irises that were just used a lot by
everybody & therefore showed up in a lot of pedigrees of irises of all
kinds.

I bought some of those common ancestors just to see what they'd do here,
but STERLING SILVER was one that I couldn't find anywhere, so have never
tried to grow it.  MAY HALL & GOLDEN EAGLE are two more I couldn't find,
nor could Anner Whitehead, who was the HIPS help find stuff person at
the time.  I've since seen MAY HALL, I think, & seems like I saw GE
somewhere.

Anyway, I've always been curious about STERLING SILVER, because the R&I
description doesn't make it sound like anything special, & I thought it
was odd that nobody was still selling it.  I'm curious to hear what
other good qualities it supplied to Schreiner lines, and, if you grew
it, how it behaved?

Neil M in NC said:
<*Sterling Silver*, incidentally, was a pivotal breeder from Steve
Moldovan
that brought factors for ruffling and lace as well as many other good
qualities into lines by Schreiners and others.>

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