Re: Wide Crosses


>mostly TB or at least  Bearded specialist.  A truly wide cross would be one
>that produces a PALTEC, or a WM MOHR, - an intra-species cross.

	I am a toddler in my iris knowledge compared to Lloyd and some other
	folks on the list but I had heard the term 'wide cross' applied to
	different species crosses. For instance, Tony Huber and his
	 ensata x versicolor = versata and the siberian x setosa = sibtosa
	 and now the new Chrysosa hybrids produced by crossing the 40
	 chromosone sibericae, sub-series Chrysographes (I.delavayi x
	 I.clarkei hybrid) x I. setosa = Chrytosa.

	Joe Pye Weed's Garden (Shaefer/Sacks) is offering BERLIN CHRYTOSA
	this year as the first of the rare  Chrytosa hybrids. I might even
	abandon my rule of not paying more than $10 for any plant to snap
	this one up. :-)

	Just saw in the new 'The Siberian Iris' that Currier McEwen defines
	wide cross, "In siberian irises, a cross between plants of different
	species or of different subseries or series. Often they are not
	successful".

	But I defer to Clarence, Sterling, Lloyd and all the other breeders
	in the bearded iris realm. Learning something every day from this
	great list.

	In a snowstorm but it was above zero this morning, 10 degrees F.

	It is still winter. -(

	Ellen































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Ellen Gallagher						"I yam what I yam!"
e_galla@moose.ncia.net					      Popeye
Lancaster, New Hampshire, USA
USDA Zone 3, AIS Region 1




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