Re: HIST:TB: Query: Peppermint striped TB?
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- Subject: Re: HIST:TB: Query: Peppermint striped TB?
- From: "* A* M* <w*@Ra.MsState.Edu>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 08:02:44 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Walter A. Moores" <wam2@Ra.MsState.Edu>
On Sun, 19 Jul 1998 HIPSource@aol.com wrote:
> From: <HIPSource@aol.com>
>
> Greetings,
>
> This office has received an in inquiry about a tall bearded iris which was
> grown in Texas in the late 'sixties or early 'seventies. It was white with red
> striped markings like a peppermint candy. And it was rather tall, perhaps 36,"
> and the color patterning resembled a red and white striped carnation.
>
> If anyone has any intuitions about what iris this might be, please communicate
> with this office. It has been called unique and a "rare beauty".
>
> We thank you.
>
> Anner Whitehead
> Commercial Source Chairman
> Historic Iris Preservation Society
> HIPSource@aol.com
>
CANDY CANE may be the cultivar to which this person refers. It
was hybridized by Mr. Z. G. Benson of Wichita Falls about the time you
mentioned, was registered, distributed, but never officially introduced.
CC appeared in TX shows and would really 'knock 'em dead' back then. It
is of the broken color pattern and preceded Alan Ensminger's work with
that pattern, which he called variegated. I used to grow it and could
never get seed from it, and I don't think it shows in any parentages in
the Check Lists.
Peggy Williams in Ft. Worth may still grow it, but I am not sure
if she still has her garden or not.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS 7/8
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