Re: HYB: Controversy and Disgust
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB: Controversy and Disgust
- From: w*@watervalley.net
- Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 07:46:50 -0600
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From: wmoores@watervalley.net
> From: hipsource@aol.com
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> I shall repeat my question. Does anyone know of any other recent, by
> which I mean non-historic, hybrid iris about which people have so
> enjoyed holding and expressing such strong and conflicting opinions on
> the basis of color and form?
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> Anner Whitehead
> HIPSource@aol.com
I do not know of anything recently (unless it is still unseen in a
hybridizer's patch) based on color and form that has aroused a
storm of controversy.
Of the historics, RHYTHM (Ballard '54), has got to be on top or
near the top of the 'double uglies.' "A phenomenal break in iris
form; the first flat iris with six bearded falls. A whimsical freak of
nature, entirely without the usual three standards characterizing
normal iris. A novel iten for arrangement fans..." From Lloyd
Austin's Iris Color Guidebook, 1963.
Rudi Fuchs was always 'slipping this one in' as a extra when
we traded irises, but I must admit seeing it in his garden was
enough....flat, six bearded falls in grayish purple with marked hafts
extending to the tip of the beards - the Thornbird of its day.
Walter Moores
Baja Tennessee, 7/8 The New World
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