Re: HYB: Zonals
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- Subject: Re: HYB: Zonals
- From: d*@dynamicro.on.ca
- Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 14:34:49 -0500 (EST)
From: dlouis@dynamicro.on.ca
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Mike Lowe wrote:
> From: Mike Lowe <mlowe@worldiris.com>
>
> Walter Moores writes...
>
> >Look for the picture of FALL SPOTLIGHT. It has the largest zonal
> >spot I have seen yet. It may look like a plic, but it is not.
>
> Conventional wisdom attributes the zonal pattern to be a result of Victoria
> Falls background.
> Do you buy into this theory?
> Cheers, Mike in Southside Virginia, where the computers have been unplugged since
> early morning due to severe thunderstorms.
I am a bit sceptical about this. I have oldies with zonals like tears
hanging off the end of the beard(s). The oldies are Mount Royal (Morgan
'29) and Indian Hills (Grant '35) which I think predate VF. The zonals
for these flowers have blue veins.
--
Diana Louis <dlouis@dynamicro.on.ca> <- private email address
cold edge of Zone 4 Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
AIS, CIS, SIGNA, IRIS-L, Canadian Wildflower Soc.
URL for the North American Native Irises web page
http://molly.hsc.unt.edu/~rbarton/Iris/NANI.html
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