TDF - compiling list
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- Subject: TDF - compiling list
- From: "* G* C* <j*@erols.com>
- Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 19:12:33 -0600 (MDT)
Kathy Guest asked which iris we can't live without.
The iris that hooked me was WABASH. I saw a row of it struggling in the
shade a couple of blocks from my home in Indianapolis in 1974. The
homeowner let me take as much as I liked. I salvaged several rhizomes,
having to cut rot off of each. WABASH is an amoena with pure white
standards and royal purple, heavy velvet falls trimmed in ermine.
Although the falls are considered narrow by today's standards, it is
still a thing of beauty. I have used it extensively in my breeding over
the years -- more than any other single cultivar. The penalty for this
is the production of lots of seedlings that would have been winners 20
years ago. Yesterday, however, the work was vindicated. My first Wabash
derivative to do so -- a border bearded seedling with light blue-violet
stands and deep red-violet falls -- took a blue ribbon at yesterday's
Francis Scott Key Society's show at Westminster, Maryland. Well, as
they say, even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes. But it is
encouraging.
Griff Crump, looking at the last of his blooming-out TBs along the tidal
Potomac. jgcrump@erols.com
