Re: TROPICAL BUTTERFLY
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- Subject: Re: TROPICAL BUTTERFLY
- From: R* T* D* <r*@sierratel.com>
- Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 17:18:02 -0700 (MST)
> Julie Allen wrote:
>
> : TROPICAL
> : BUTTERFLY, which I think has some aril in it, but which also didn't > : bloom
> : last spring
>
> If so, it's so far back I haven't found it -- tho' there are other older ones
> with "Butterfly" in their names.
>
> Sharon McAllister (73372.1745@compuserve.com)
> .
TROPICAL BUTTERFLY (Carstensen 1963)--FABULOUS!! We've grown it for
years and we just love it (and so do our customers as well sell out
almost every year)! It's a large flower of yellow with red stripes on
both standards and falls. Not sure if it is aril parentage, parents
are By Line X Defiance. By Line is a DeForest 54 and Defiance is a
Tompkins 53.
We grow and list in our catalog, the following old "Butterfly's"
PRETTY BUTTERFLY (Sass seedling)--unregistered--Orchid-lavender neglecta
with falls totally veined in rose-purple
SCARLET BUTTERFLY (Austin 60)--part aril; pale red S' scarlet F flushed
white and veined scarlet--but no real veined effect per se
STRIPED BUTTERFLY (Noyd 61)--part aril; light blue self; F veined darker
violet blue; yellow B; CG White Award 1962
Does DRAGONFLY count? We also just got in a HORNED DRAGONFLY (Austin
65)!
Rick Tasco
Superstition Iris Gardens
Central California Sierra Nevada foothills
Zone 8--and finally, 6 days in a row without rain!! And 6 frosts in a
row at night--that'll help our Siberians look great next Spring!
