Re: HYB: Controversy and Disgust
- To: i*@onelist.com
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB: Controversy and Disgust
- From: h*@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 17:30:22 EST
From: hipsource@aol.com
In a message dated 3/5/00 1:40:53 PM Eastern Standard Time,
wmoores@watervalley.net writes:
<< As I remember GIANT ROSE, it wasn't all that attractive.... Was it
patented? >>
I went back and looked in my research stuff. I see that patent was applied
for by 1959, the date of introduction but in the Austin 1961 catalog it looks
like the patent was still pending. Austin lists AMETHYST FLAME, BRONZE BELL,
and TRIM as patented, so apparently it was not the first.
I guess having raised the question here I really owe it to anyone interested
to give some of the description from the Schreiner's 1959 catalog, which
introduced the iris.
"GIANT ROSE (Schreiner 1959) ML. 40"
'This is the forest primeval.' quoth the poet, and so we say of this fabulous
Iris which breaks all records for size, 'this is the rose titanic'. Believe
it or not, we measured four blooms of 'Ripley's Rose' one morning last year
and each one mesured between 11 and 111/2 inches from top to bottom. [ I
think WILLIAM A. SETCHELL usually tops out at about 8].) [...]Imagine an Iris
of such stupendous size! No other Iris, not even Elmohr, has equalled it. It
is truly a 'whopper.' We don't want to over-emphasize size, but a garden
must have a certain number of conversation pieces and here is certainly a
topnotcher. Most giant Iris lack character, but not Giant Rose. It has
rugged, inch-thick stems, superb candelabrum branching, excellent starchy
substance, jaunty classic form, considerable ruffling, and a sparkling sheen.
In fact, Giant Rose reminds one of a rosier gigantic Lavanesque, which is one
of our most beautiful Iris.[....] Our crystal ball tells us that here is an
Iris which is going over big."
Which, to judge from what Walta and Jeff tell us, is precisely what it does
if not staked. I might add that I've seen height listed at 50" somewhere for
this one.
Anner Whitehead
HIPSource@aol.com
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