Re: HYB: Zurbrigg variety

>Hi Mr. Zurbrigg,
>        I was out in the garden today weeding and cleaning up dead leaves
>around my
>clump of Quivering Flame. Since I have been seeing your name often on the list
>I thought I should go straight to the source to get some answers. I am
>probably opening a can of worms doing this but I have had questions for
>several years regarding this variety.
>        First question: What do you call those strange petaloid things on it's
>standards and where did they come from?
>        Second question: Did you pursue breeding with Quivering Flame to
>get more of
>these type novelties? Are they worth pursuing? Are there others I should know
>about?
>        Third Question: In the '59 R & I, there is no mention of its extra
>petal
>parts in the description. Were you not able to register novelties then?
>
>        Sigh.....Now I feel so much better that I have asked those nagging
>questions.
>
>IRIS MANIAC,
>Sterling (not Innerst)
>Seattle, WA. Zone 8
>paganpink@msn.com
Dear Sterling:  Please, let me have a plant or two of QUIVERING FLAME. It
is old-timy but there is nothing quite like it. I could not move everything
when I moved from Indiana University to Radford, VA . This plant came in my
amoena lines, I cannot explain the "shingling" of the standards. I did not
mention them when registering, or if I did, the information was left out. I
saw a near-black with some of this on it, and the owner of the garden said
I could not have any pollen, nor could I have a piece of it, because it was
going into the trash. Had I been smarter then, I would have praised his
seedling and told him to let me know when it was introduced. Then he
probably would not have noticed the little extra parts, and gone ahead and
introduced it. This was almost forty years ago, and it occurred right here
in North Carolina.
        I do not know if there is a future for this novel feature, and I
tried only a little to breed with this variety, but I would dearly love to
do so again. If you can send me some pollen, please do, although I do not
recall if it produces pollen. Delighted to hear you still have it. Good
luck on any crossing you decide to make. Lloyd Zurbrigg in Durham NC
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