RE: new seedlings

Lloyd,
Your seedlings sound lovely.  I've been hankering after Mesmerizer but now
I can wait for your seedlings to be introduced.  Maybe by then, I'll have
more land so that I can buy all of them.

Maureen Mark
Ottawa, Canada (zone 4) -- where Sunray Reflection will be the first TB to
bloom either today or tomorrow

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	z88keys@mindspring.com [SMTP:z88keys@mindspring.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, May 12, 1998 10:29 PM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	new seedlings
> 
> Dear Friends: Here goes a second try to get this information to you. It
> has
> been a good season here. The tornatoes and the hail storms manged to miss
> us, and I am grateful.  The most exciting new seedlings have been in my
> attempts to get reblooming Space-Agers, - or just Space-Agers
> occasionally.
> 
>      NN 32 has been a very good cross. it is from my KK 130 "Flying" , a
> double grandchild of ANNE BOLEYN, by pollen of Monty Byers' GODSEND.  NN
> 32-9-2 is an orchid with red beards ending in bright purple fuzz. I took a
> stalk along to the Charlotte Iris Show, (having first asked permission to
> bring seedlings, and of course not judging that division. ) It managed to
> win first place!! A sibling, NN 32 LAST has just come into bloom; it is an
> apricot-pink with self flounces, some white in the falls.
>      Even later is PP 56, which opened only yesterday. It is a big white
> with flounces, excellent in form and substance, and is from NN 32-2-3 X
> Mesmerizer. Unlike its "papa" the seedling's red beards are readily seen,
> and add to the excitement. I found it in the evening, in the rain!. its
> pollen was wet and spoiled. Hopefully the next blooms will have some, but
> almost all other beardeds are over with!
>      Just a few days ago I found RR 49-1-1, similar to the above but a
> creamy yellow, -really a white with yellow influences. I rushed out the
> next morning to collect pollen  , - - and it had none. But since then it
> has produced good pollen! What a lucky break!
>      One cross that has been very useful is OO 33 RENOWN X MESMERIZER. It
> gives width of haft, size and good substance. OO 33 4-1 is an amoena with
> tiny horns, and OO 33C-6-1 is a neglecta with big flounces, to which I
> gave
> the nickname Superba. There were other siblings as well.
>      A novelty , a lavender-orchid with orange influences, had flounces,
> witha sort of "dish" at the end, and the inside of the "dish" is orange!
>      Mike Lowe put a picture of OO 24 Sweet Sixteen on the web. It is a
> white with similar "dishes" on the end of the flounces, and each is filled
> with petaloids of white and yellow, all frilled. You can guess that
> Mesmerizer is its parent.
>      Lloyd Zurbrigg in Durham NC   Thank goodness for the spurias and
> Louisianas and Japanese to keep the season going.
> 
>
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