Re: Re: HYB: how many seedlings?

In a message dated 3/22/2006 10:11:05 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
pharcher@mindspring.com writes:

Some  hybridizers are much more simple and cross two plants blooming at the 
same  time that they feel are a good match or perhaps are just curious to see 
what  happens.  I'm sure many cultivars have been produced this way and  
probably very very common in the early days of hybridizing.  Such as a an  'Beverly 
Sills' (a lycopene pink) with 'Starring' (a dark purple  amoena).  And no... I 
haven't done this cross.  There would likely  be a wide range of flower color 
patterns and colors I would imagine, but then  again I could be wrong.


Hi Paul,
 
Just for the heck of it, my husband crossed a pink grandchild of 'Beverly  
Sills' named 'Dearly Beloved' with Schreiners'  'Rippling River', a deep  
blue-violet self, and got a wide variety of colors and patterns.   There were 
several whites with yellow borders, a pale blue with yellow wire rim,  one with 
light blue standards and pale blue falls, and a number of varying  shades of 
violet. One of the violet ones has amber shoulders, light brown border  around 
falls and is a near luminata.  All of these were ruffled and some  were quite 
broad in the falls.  Sometimes these wide crosses result in high  quality and 
unique patterns if both parents had good characteristics to begin  with. Of course 
there were no pink seedlings in the batch.  We are  trying crosses of some of 
them with other pink irises to see what  happens.
 
Dorothy Willott in Northern Ohio, Zone 6

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