Re: HIST -- Grape scent -- PACQUITA

The strongest grape (Concord) -scented iris I have ever grown is the seedling
from (Blue Shimmer X (Sun Lakes x *I. hoogiana*)), the *hoogiana* a blue
clone.  The scent was so powerful it attracted scads of insects, and was as
powerful as an arbor of Concords ripe and ready to pick.  I registered it as
SWEET HOOGIE. I wish I could lay my hands on a start of it again.  I suppose
it has passed into oblivion.

I would suppose nearly half the ultimate ancestry of this cv is ultimately *I.
pallida,* like most any other blue iris among the beardeds.  It also had a
very blue beard, a characteristic that came from Sun Lakes, the pollen parent
of LADY BLUE BEARD and grand-parent of SWEET ALICE LEE, both of whom appear in
the ancestries of at least three Dykes Medal irises and in Dave Niswonger's
blue-bearded pink breeding.  The two, Lady Blue Beard and Sweet Alice Lee are
among some of the first blue-bearded near-whites, along with Dr. Loomis' "Blue
Throat" and Thompkins' COURTESY, which are in the ancestry of Sweet Alice
Lee.

Considering the beard color of Blue Shimmer, I should not have been surprised
at the intense blue of Sweet Hoogie's beard, decidedly *not* a *pallida*
characteristic, but that powerful Concord grape fragrance most probably traced
back among the recessives it carried to the *pallidas* in the more remote
ancestry.

Neil Mogensen  z   7   western NC.

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