HIST: Princess Beatrice
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- Subject: HIST: Princess Beatrice
- From: S* M* <7*@compuserve.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 16:20:07 -0600 (MDT)
Phyl Lyons wrote:
>> A friend collects antiques and ordered Princess Beatrice. She place=
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the order with Bluebird Haven - instead she got Dalmatica, with a note
stating that the Iris are one and the same. Is this correct? If so, why=
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all the confusion? Was the registration changed at some point? <<
No, it wasn't changed. Princess Beatrice predates the registration syste=
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itself. J. Marion Shull, a well-respected irisarian of the 20s, describe=
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PRINCESS BEATRICE as superior form of DALMATICA and the '39 Checklist not=
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that stock of the two had been mixed. Today, DALMATICA is today consider=
ed
a synonym of I. pallida. =
I'll leave it to the real experts like Mike Lowe to assess the odds that =
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cultivar grown under the name of PRINCESS BEATRICE today is the same clon=
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as that distribued by Barr almost 100 years ago....
Sharon McAllister
73372.1745@compuserve.com
