HIST: Lord of June
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- Subject: HIST: Lord of June
- From: s*@aristotle.net (J. Michael, Celia or Ben Storey)
- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 07:00:23 -0700 (MST)
John asks
>>Can someone help me interpret the entry for LOJ in the '39 checklist
>>please?
>>
>>LORD OF JUNE. TB-M-B3M (Yeld 1911); Back. 1911; Wal. 1916; Chase 1917;
>>Mov. 1919; The Gard. 21 June 1919; Bon. 1920; Sheets 1928; Gard Ill.
>>51:626. 14 Sep. 1929 %; Tip Top 1937; Bun. 1938; Rowan. 1938; Wass.
>>1938; (Amas X ...); AAA 126.; A.M., R.H.S. 1915, shown by Baker;
>>J.R.H.S. 41:2, cxxii. Dec 1915%; Silver Medal. M.H.S. 1921. shown by
>>Chase; (square symbol) ci.
>>
Many thanks to Sharon for looking this over before I posted it (and also
for salvaging the copy I sent her when I ... well, never mind).
celia
storey@aristotle.net
LORD OF JUNE, approved name of tall bearded iris flowering the middle of the
season, a medium blue bitone introduced into commerce by George Yeld of
Gerrards Cross, England, in 1911. A schoolteacher, he was an amateur grower
of the first water, and LOJ is cited as one of the "most famous of irises."
In 1911, Backhouse Nurseries in York listed the plant for sale; in 1916 it
was offered by R. Wallace & Co. of Kinfield Gardens in Colchester; in 1917
LOJ was imported and introduced in the United States by H.F. Chase of
Andover, Mass.; in 1919 the plant was offered by Movilla Gardens of
Haverford, Pa.; the June 21, 1919 issue of "The Garden" (London) cites the
plant in an article without ilustration; in 1920 LOJ was listed by the
nursery of Lee R, Bonnewitz of Van Wert, Ohio; in 1928 Earl Wooddell
Sheets, a former USDA bureaucrat, listed it in his catalog; Volume 51 of
"Gardening Illustrated," a magazine catering to amateur gardeners,
described LOJ in a article with black and white illustration on Sept. 14,
1929 (Page 626); in 1937, the plant was offered for sale by Tip Top Gardens
of Williamsville, NY; in 1938 it was carried by George Bunyard & Co., The
Royal Nurseries, in Kent, and in the same year by Rowancroft Gardens in
Ontario and Charles Wassenberg of Van Wert, Ohio.
Parentage: Amas, an early-blooming medium blue bitone, was the pod parent.
Pollen parent unknown.
Listed in the results of trials by the Journal of the Royal Horticultural
Society vol. 53: Part 1, page 126. Received Award of Merit from the RHS in
1915 after being shown by John Gilbert Baker, former keeper of the
Herbarium for the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Cited with black and white
illustration in volume 41. page 2 of the Journal of the RHS in December
1915; received the Silver Medal from the Massachusetts Horticultural
Society in Boston in 1921 after being shown by H.F. Chase of Andover.
Fragrance reminiscent of cinnamon.
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