Re: HYB: TB: May Hall

Linda, when in doubt do a 'Google Search' you never know when you may be
lucky. I keyed in "May Hall" and Iris and came up with this site which has
the ancestors of Conjuration. About half way done the article is a listing
of various irises which are in the Conjuration 'family'. There is a lot of
scrolling to do, be warned!
http://babbage.clarku.edu/~djoyce/iris/conjuration.html

MAY HALL.
(D. Hall, R. 1952). TB, 35", M, OR1. Medium-tone pink. Dolly Varden X pink
sdlg. 49-13: (47-51 x 47-21). Sdlg. 47-51 and 47-21 are both 45-05 (Courtier
sib.) X Radiation. HM 1954; AM 1956. Cooley 1954. Parent of Christmas Time
grandparent of Champagne Music.

I tried this with 'Sterling Silver' but too many dealing with jewelry!!!

Hopes this helps, Wilfrid Tarbet in Bluewater Country on the south shore of
Lake Huron, ON
----- Original Message -----
From: "Linda Mann" <lmann@volfirst.net>
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 4:08 PM
Subject: [iris] 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.>
>
> --
> Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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