Re: HIST: identiying NOIDS

Jeff,

Thanks so much for the suggestions!  I'll add those names as "possibles" and
hit the catalogs this spring in search of those you listed to plant beside
my NOIDS for comparison.  I appreciate the help.

Janet in Denmark  WI
zone 4


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff and Carolyn Walters" <jcwalters@bridgernet.com>
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 11:05 AM
Subject: Re: [iris] HIST: identiying NOIDS


> Janet,
>
> I have looked at your album of unidentified irises and offer you the
> following comments on some of them:
>
> #4: I think that there is a high probability that this one is indeed
> WABASH. Besides its other characteristics it displays the wedge-shaped
> falls that seem to me to be almost a defining characteristic of this
> cultivar.
>
> #6: This one looks like a species form of I. pallida based on flower color
> and form, branching, papery spathes, and foliage.
>
> #7: I agree that this one could be PERFECTION. I see nothhing it its
> appearance that rules out its identification as such.
>
> #11: This one might be PATRICIAN (H. F. Hall, 1953). The checklist
> description of this cultivar is "TB, 36in., ML. White self, overlay of
> barium yellow on F., surrounding beard of same yellow."
>
> #13: This one is likely to be SHERWIN-WRIGHT (Kohankie, 1915), which is a
> yellow self mutant of HONORABILE.
>
> Jeff Walters in northern Utah  (USDA Zone 4/5, Sunset Zone 2, AHS Zone 7)
> HIPS Commercial Source Chairman
> jcwalters@bridgernet.com
>
> ----------
> > From: Janet Stromborg <twinhill@earthlink.net>
> > To: iris@hort.net
> > Subject: [iris] HIST: identiying NOIDS
> > Date: Saturday, March 01, 2003 5:03 AM
> >
> > Hi All!
> >
> > WebShots threatened me with extinction if I didn't either pay up or
> resize
> > my albums so I broke my iris collection photos up into several smaller
> > albums.
> >
> > I'd sure appreciate any help from you out there in giving me some
> possible
> > identifications for my NOIDS.  I'd like to purchase known cultivars to
> plant
> > by my historic NOIDS especially in hope of possibly identifying some of
> > them.  A lofty goal, I know......
> >
> > Here's the URL for the WebShots album and thanks in advance for looking!
> >
> > http://community.webshots.com/user/avjanet
> >
> > Janet in Denmark WI
> > zone 4
> >
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