Re: HYB: kashmiriana, ploidy, pallida crosses
- Subject: Re: HYB: kashmiriana, ploidy, pallida crosses
- From: n*
- Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 19:16:46 -0000
--- In iris-talk@y..., Linda Mann <lmann@v...> wrote:
"... (pallida X MULBERRY ROSE....I don't grow DOLLY
> MADISON (in fact don't know what it looks like), so that must be
> somebody else."
My antique memory bin---another cross-over. Dr. Loomis used Mulberry
Rose, D. Hall used Dolly Madison in parallel ways. The two do
resemble each other a little--yellow ground color in the hafts
(appearing rosy brown in MR), both with "t" factor, similar form,
etc. Didn't intend to mix them up. You responded to the question I
meant rather than the one I stated. Thanks.
>" Neil, do you remember which diploid crosses you tried?"
Vaguely---I had a hybrid between cengialtii and reginae that was TB
in height, weak stems but a lovely, flared flower with butterfly
veining in the falls. I pollenized every bloom it ever produced for
several years with various aphylla clones Dr. Randolph had sent me.
Also I used aphyllas on all the species diploids I had. I never
tried the method you mention of overwhelming the flower with repeated
pollenizations and mixed sources--being fastidious and a purist I
meant to have reliable and known sources. Instead, I got nothing.
Perhaps the aphylla was the weak source? I'm not sure why I was
avoiding advanced tetraploids. I certainly had some good things
available.
The whole project disolved when we sold out and I left for seminary.
I wish I had the one useful hybrid back again, crooked stem and all
notwithstanding.
Neil M z 6b/7a near Asheville, NC
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