Re: CULT: Survivors and Quality kin

Hmmmm...the 1939 CL has the data about the hybridizers in the *front* not the
back.  I found a combination of glasses and a fresnel lens designed for folks
like me--and discovered the LaCrosse, WI, data you (Linda) posted.  This
Egelberg is the originator of ANGELUS and others back of the Schreiner orchids
and appears in the pedigree of AMETHYST FLAME.  It looks as though most of the
orchids' family trees are from the upper and central Midwest, including
Minnesota and the nearby LaCrosse, WI, plus irises bred in Iowa, Ohio, Indiana
and Nebraska.

From the behavior of SWINGTOWN one gets the impression the
toughness--survivability--established in the Midwest continues to be present
in the line.

F. X. Schreiner and offspring are listed for St. Paul, Minnesota in the 1939
list.  The entry for Angelus suggests there might have been a business
relationship between Egelberg and the Schreiner's nursery...I'm not sure how
to interpret what I see in the entry and for the moment don't care to try to
dig into the front of the Check List deeper to decipher what the entry
actually means.  Give me a month--I'll be able to read it in April provided
the ophthamologist can deliver what is the normal outcome of swapping a
natural optical lens gone bad for a manufactured one.

I wonder what one would find with a few generations of crossing top quality
blues and whites--most of which have many of their ancestors bred in the same
areas as those behind the orchids--with Swingtown and the like.  The
co-pigments of the blues would be diluted but still present.  The ability to
challenge and survive our winter and spring plunges of temperatures after
softening warm spells might just be further enhanced.

Might as well stir some quality pinks (again, Midwest bred ancestors) into the
pot.  What a potful of color genetics would result.  The question would
be--would any of them be worth looking at?

Neil Mogensen       z   7   western NC

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