Re: REF: color patterns for dummies
- Subject: Re: REF: color patterns for dummies
- From: M* L*
- Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 22:30:19 -0500
Hi Linda, you write...
>Then there are the recessive amoenas, with white instead of pale top &
>rim, or is a recessive amoena genetically the same as DOMINION, with an
>added color inhibitor? I haven't found any pictures of recessive
>amoenas that don't have the light rim too.
No, Dominion is a dominant, at least in its color pattern. There are
legions of Dominion children, and it was a reliable producer of
progeny that were first generation 'step aheads' in many ways. (not
the least in growth and hardiness -- keeping Dominion alive is
difficult)
There are a few with no obvious rim. The best known and most widely
grown is Helen Collingwood (K. Smith 49) Less often seen is a child
of HC, Elizabeth Noble (K. Smith 55). Helen is on the website, Noble
is not. [Elizabeth Noble is named after Mrs. Thomas J. Nesmith,
proprietor of Fairmount gardens and an iris world luminary from the
20s into the late 60s)
Cheers,
Mike, mlowe@worldiris.com -- http://www.worldiris.com
South Central Virginia, USA; USDA Zone 7A
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