Re: Wide Crosses
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- Subject: Re: Wide Crosses
- From: E* G* <e*@moose.ncia.net>
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 11:29:48 -0700 (MST)
>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