Re: HYB: Controversy and Disgust
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB: Controversy and Disgust
- From: m* v*
- Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 06:01:07 -0800 (PST)
From: michelle verville <mickyjonny@yahoo.com>
Hi,
Where can I get giant rose?
Michelle Verville
Brethren,MI zone 5
--- hipsource@aol.com wrote:
> 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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