Re: HYB: Debby Rairdon
- Subject: Re: HYB: Debby Rairdon
- From: J* a* C* W*
- Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 19:06:14 -0600
Iris-talkers:
With regard to the origin of DEBBY RAIRDON (Kuntz, 1965), AIS Registrar
Keith Keppel has kindly shared the following information with me:
> My understanding on the Debby affair is that Lois Kuntz DID
> make a controlled cross....but couldn't remember later what she had
> crossed, other than that one parent was "a Fay pink".
>
> In the August, 1978, issue of Plants Alive, there is an article on Mrs.
> Kuntz. In it is the statement that after reading how simple hybridizing
> was, she "went out and randomly crossed two iris..." Twenty seedlings
> resulted, most of them "a kind of muddy, ugly pink".
>
> So yes, Debby is NOT a bee pod, just unknown parentage.
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4/5, Sunset Zone 2, AHS Zone 7)
jcwalters@bridgernet.com
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