Re: HYB: adaptability/microhabitat

SWINGTOWN is another really healthy one here, tho somewhat slow
growing.  If the pretty genes aren't strongly linked with the sickly
genes, I would think POWER WOMAN et al will do well throughout the the
slough of despond. <g>

I know that Paul Cook used to collaborate with a local hybridizer in
Knoxville, Neubert.  According to Tom Parkhill, who was learning
hybridizing from them in the 50s, Cook and Neubert used to trade
seedlings a lot.  So I suspect Paul was keenly aware of the problems
with climate and soil in this area as well as whatever climate problems
he had at home.

Don't know nuthin about Fay and Hall, except that Hall (or was that a
different Hall in Ohio?) sent me HARVEST OF MEMORIES as an extra, for
which I will be forever grateful, since it is one of the best,
healthiest irises I grow.  Except for those kinky stalks some years...

And contrary to what I said about it being unlikely to get breaking new
patterns and colors among the tough ones, Paul Cook's famous WHOLE
CLOTH, the dominant amoena, beginning of the end of those lovely
recessive amoenas (see Griff's lovely seedling from the recessive amoena
WABASH on iris-photos), is a tough one.  It does reasonably well here,
is fertile here, and seems to be in the pedigree of a majority of
cultivars that do well for me.

Ah, who knows.  Lets start a science project on heredity of rot
resistance...

<....quite a few seedlings involving POWER WOMAN (from Swingtown x
Romantic Evening)...
Why is it that there were never chronic complaints about the growth
habits of irises bred in Indiana and on the Lake Michigan shore north of
Chicago?  Could
  it be that Cook, Hall, Fay and those near them were faced with
climates no
  kinder than ours? Neil Mogensen   z 7 western NC>

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