Re: HYB:DEBBY RAIRDON

Hi, Bill,

I went to the online database, found lots of Debby's descendants, but
not her. I don't have any hardcopy checklists. If not Debby, I wonder
how many other famous cultivars actually were bee pods.....

BTW, my comments about deadheading were based on the assumption that the
"blob" was just a normal, spent bloom.

Bill Wells



Bill Shear wrote:

>
> Perhaps some confusion about DEBBY RAIRDON.  In a 1978 article, J. D.
> Foraker, who interviewed Lois Kuntz, said that she "picked two pink
> varieties to cross" and then selected a single seedling from the ten
> or so
> that resulted.  This suggests that DEBBY RAIRDON did not arise from a
> chance
> pod, as someone on the list recently stated.  Has anyone checked the
> registrations to see if a parentage is listed?  It may be that the two
> pink
> parents were unknown varieties, and that started the "bee pod" story.
>
> Bill Shear
>
> PS--may I suggest that the "blob" was simply a normally wilted bloom?
>
>
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