RE: RE: HYB: Rose scent

I remember one April morning working in my iris bed and thinking that my
jasmine vine on the other side of the house must be blooming a month early.
Then I discovered that the scent was coming from an iris, Appleblossom Days.
There is a unique iris fragrance though that I think is very fresh and
lovely, the ones that don't smell like anything but irises.

Francelle Edwards  Glendale, AZ  Zone 9


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-iris@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of
Impressive Irises
Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 9:30 PM
To: iris@hort.net
Subject: Re: [iris] RE: HYB: Rose scent

Hi Griff

While irises such as Bev Sills, Silkirim etc, do have a light pleasant
perfume it's not in the same class as the strong Jasmine  perfume as
those I mentioned, before, have. This perfume can be smelt 10 ft away on
a warm day, and people react very positively to it.

Colleen

J. Griffin Crump wrote:
> Colleen  --  You might be right that perfume is recessive, but I'm
> surprised when you speak of "the only strong  nice scent I've detected
> in irises".  I find that most irises have some fragrance, and quite a
> few are strongly scented, with usually a pleasant fragrance.  And
> then, there are some stinkers, too.  Do your fellow
> hybridizers/growers there find the same thing as you?  --  Griff
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Impressive Irises"
> <colleen@impressiveirises.com.au>
> To: <iris@hort.net>
> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 4:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [iris] RE: HYB: Rose scent
>
>
>> Hi
>>
>> The only strong nice scent I've detected in irises is a jasmine
>> scent. Forever Yours has it and so does one of mine releases Carol E.
>> This is from Deja Blue x Autumn Thunder, neither of which has this
>> lovely perfume. Unfortunately Carol E is pollen sterile so I'm
>> having  slow working on the genetics, but I suspect perfume is a
>> recessive gene.
>>
>> Colleen Modra
>>
>> Adelaide Hills
>> South Australia
>>
>> www.impressiveirises.com.au
>>
>>
>> Thomas silvers wrote:
>>> Hi Griff,
>>> I'm fascinated by the diversity of scents I've noticed among the
>>> bearded irises. I haven't come across a rose-scented one yet, but
>>> don't see why it wouldn't be possible. Is this in one of your SDB
>>> seedlings?
>>>
>>> Hi Anner, it's good to hear from you again [I had been a little
>>> worried and was on the verge of e-mailing you :0)]. You wrote:
>>>  "that among the fragrances cataloged in the AIS 1939 Check List is
>>> 'rose.' So, for that matter, are waterlily, may-apple, celery, and
>>> the scent of the flowers of poplar and dogwood"
>>>
>>> I'm not familiar with waterlily, may-apple, poplar and dogwood
>>> scents, but I can vouch for the celery scent. That's exactly the
>>> thought that came to mind when I smelled the scent of my two newly
>>> registered diploid MTB rebloomers (CRICKET SONG and EASY SMILE).
>>> It's not exactly the kind of scent one's hoping for in a flower, but
>>> I guess it's not unpleasant.
>>>
>>> Take care guys, Tom
>>>
>>> From: "J. Griffin Crump" <jgcrump@cox.net> Date: Fri, 1 May 2009
>>> 22:24:11 -0400 -----------------------------------------------
>>> Today, I plucked a bloom from a seedling which had sent up a stunted
>>> stalk to
>>> see how it might look up out of the foliage.  I was astonished to
>>> get a rose
>>> scent  --  just as truly as if one were smelling a deep, red rose.
>>> Has anyone
>>> else had that experience with an iris?  --  Griff
>>>
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