HYB: Shoop pedigrees

Linda Mann's information she has posted (July 19th) about some of George
Shoop's pedigrees is a treasure!  Thank You!

The one person who is most likely to have in-depth, rich and accurate data on
Shoop is Keith Keppel.  I believe he has the original stud books as part of
the archival material.  This is the wrong time of year to ask someone like him
for technical data, however.  That's winter work.

One can learn or speculate a lot by what *is* published in the Check Lists.
The parentage of 'One Desire' in the '69 CL reveals a lot.  It shows ((Jeb
Stuart x Floradora) x (Salmon Shell x Pink Formal)) X June Meredith. I would
be surprised if that pollen parent does not appear in almost all of his
subsequent work.

Considering the timing ('One Desire' was registered in 1960) there aren't very
many possibilities other than those shown and their close kin to account for
his subsequent work.  I have a vague memory of 'Baby's Bonnet' (in the '59 CL)
being involved somewhere along the line, and also some of Bennett Jones'
seedlings.

There just aren't many other sources for pinks other than the few that came
from Loomis, Tell's early work, and David Hall pinks--most all of which
include a healthy contribution from Nebraska-bred Sass irises.  Lapham pinks
(i.e., 'Paradise Pink') appear in almost no subsequent pedigrees, so can be
fairly well discounted.  Everything that has happened since with tangerine
beards has come almost entirely from these few sources--or so I have believed.
The 'One Desire' pedigree demonstrates this.

People like Orville Fay, Melba Hamblen, Tell Muhlestein, Opal Brown, Keith
Keppel, Glenn Corlew, Joe Ghio, Barry Blyth and several others of comparable
significance have brought in significant non-tangerine materials that added
substance, better branching, vigor, virus resistance, ruffling and greatly
improved texture in pink breeding.

Jean Steven's 'Pinnacle' and 'Sunset Snows' added another dimension to the
genetic mix.

Everything since has built on this rather limited foundation--including the
Shoop varieties.

In a way, we could describe the mass of t-bearded irises as a skyscraper
sitting on a foundation of a two-bedroom tract house.  There just aren't very
many forerunners in this gigantic mix.

Neil Mogensen  zone 7, western NC

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