RE: HYB.Breeding for Older Form and the Market
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- Subject: RE: HYB.Breeding for Older Form and the Market
- From: M*@fin.gc.ca
- Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 14:37:56 -0700 (MST)
Walter, you said that much better than me. And that is an impressive,
ambitious list of hybridizing goals. I know that Tony Huber is working on
#1 and Barry Blyth is working on #2 and #3. Is anyone working on the
others?
Maureen Mark
Ottawa, Canada (zone 4)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Walter A. Moores [SMTP:wam2@Ra.MsState.Edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 1998 4:00 PM
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> Subject: Re: HYB.Breeding for Older Form and the Market
>
> All of this is tied up in preferences, and I would hate to label
> any form as preferred (but probably have as you read on). Marie Caillet
> has always stressed this in the LA judges' training schools she has
> taught, and I believe it applies to non-bearded as well as bearded irises
> to a certain extent.
>
> Naturally, older forms (hanging, drooping, pinching) are
> characteristic of another era, but that was acceptable then as the
> standard form and is acceptable now when viewing historic collections. It
> is highly speculative that a 1998 introduction with historic form would
> garner awards from AIS judges.
>
> Lace, ruffling, wider hafts, and flaring falls were results of
> breeding in the sixties and later. But, when some got so lacy, so
> ruffled, or so wide they couldn't open without help, there came a limit as
> to how much lace or ruffles or how wide the hafts could get before these
> features posed a problem. Horizontally flared falls pose problems for
> photographers!
>
> In the late fifties, Lloyd Austin developed the first Space Age
> irises, and to this day they are abhorred by many. Whether you like them
> or not, there is a market for them and more and more hybridizers are
> turning their attention to this group. But, I have already experienced
> bloom on some that are so flounced, they get tangled up in their own parts
> and cannot open without some help from the gardener.
>
> I don't know if I have answered Donald's post but some of what I
> said may constitute parameters, history, preferences, and limitations.
>
> For the future I would like to see hybridizers work on the
> following:
>
> 1. More interspecie crossing with the beardless.
>
> 2. Getting the spot pattern into TB's and tall quarter arils.
>
> 3. More 'exotic' coloration in bicolor TB's with contrasting
> beards (Black stds., pink falls, and a blue beard).
>
> 4.SDB's that meet their registered heights.
>
> 5.Tet Louisianas that open properly and are not so cold sensitive
>
> 6.JI's that peak with or just after TB's (before it gets too hot
> in the South).
>
> And I would expect all of these to be rot-proof, scorch-proof,
> insect/animal-proof, etc.
>
>
> Walter Moores
> Enid Lake, MS 7/8
>
