Re: Re: Looking for Melvina Suiter iris
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  • Subject: Re: Re: Looking for Melvina Suiter iris
  • From: &* H* <e*@gmail.com>
  • Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:24:46 -0700
Gesine:

I have already sent in my $10 for a year's subscription to AIS per the
instructions on the Iris Register page, so that I could have access to the
Register...I'm sure that will help us a lot when going through the Suiter iris
that my aunt has.  All of my Grandmother's irises should be in the listings as
it appears that her earliest iris was registered in 1952.

It *might* be that names alone could ring a bell and my aunt will be able to
put a name to a particular iris once it blooms (I have no idea whether or not
she ever made a list of all the Suiter iris she has, but based on her comments
to me about the tags being missing, I doubt it).

I do hope that whoever she hires knows about iris, or that she at least
supervises.  I may offer to go down there and supervise the work if she's not
able to...while I don't know a great deal about iris, I at least know how they
should be handled and replanted!

On another note, I went to the archives of the Iris mailing list and looked up
"Suiter."  I was very interested in reading all the comments by Neil A
Mogensen about my Grandmother and her iris!  I'm sorry that he's no longer
with us...I would have loved to talked with him!

Linda Hylton


From: Gesine Lohr
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 1:48 PM
To: iris@hort.net ; Linda Hylton ; Gesine Lohr ; Mike Unser ; Jean Richter
Subject: [iris] Re: Looking for Melvina Suiter iris


Hi Linda and all,

1)  That's GREAT that your aunt has iris! to conserve!
Make sure that whoever she hires to "revitalize" the garden does not
"revitalize" the old rhizomes out of the garden.
Tags come and go.  You can research descriptions of introduced iris!  So it'll
still be a guessing game, but at least you'll have someplace to start!

2)  A good place to start researching is
www.irisregister.com
costs $10/year, worth every penny (this is run by AIS)

They haven't yet gotten descriptions of iris listed in the 1939 and 1949
Checklists in (I think Mike Lowe is working on this), but iris after that are
in there.  Here're examples of listings:

AMBER BLUSH


(Suiter, R. 1959) TB, 34" (86 cm), M
Ivory self, amber hafts. Apricot Glory X Top Flight. Eden Road 1961.

AMBER ROSE


(Suiter, R. 1956) TB, 32" (81 cm), M
Smoky rose-beige self. Apricot Glory X Salmon Sheen.

BEAUTY KIST


(M. Suiter, R. 1986) TB, 32" (81 cm), E-M
S. white; F. ruffled satiny white; pink tangerine beard. Royal Coachman X
Heart Song.

CAMEO PORTRAIT


(Suiter, R. 1952) TB, 38" (97 cm), EM-L
Pink with white cameo-like markings. Muhlestein 46-2F X Pink Formal.

DUSTY FRILLS


(Suiter, R. 1955) TB, 36" (91 cm), E-L
Dusty-cream self, flushed golden-brown at haft. (Dreamcastle x Rose Frills) x
((Midwest Gem x Daybreak) x pink seedling from Pink Formal).

MARY SUE


(Suiter, R. 1957) TB, 36" (91 cm), M-L
White self, tangerine beard. ((Midwest Gem x Daybreak) x Salmon Sheen) X Mary
Randall.

VIOLET MOHR


(Suiter, R. 1957) Sdlg. S-M 4. TB, 38" (97 cm), EM
Ruffled violet self. Silver Tower X Capitola. Suiter 1958.

Gesine

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