Iris cristata

Dear Steve:
        Iris cristata is one of my loves.  I have been studying this species 
casually for some time.  Their are about 40 named variations less 
than  half of which have been registered with a cultivar name.  White 
cristatas show the same range of vigor that blue flowered forms do.  
Some quite strong and vigorous some rather small and slow.  If you 
have a good white form it is worth naming it,registering it and 
introducing it; since the variations at present are so few and most 
people have not looked at them closely.  For me in Missouri they make 
wonderful carpets in open woodland and are a superb groundcover plant.
  They ship with some dificulty when bareroot so it is not always 
easy to establish a new plant.  I would love to test your white 
against some of my blues. maybe we could trade.  Bob Pries
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