Re: CULT:In Search of "Perfect" TB Irises

From: "Walter Moores" <wmoores@watervalley.net>



> From: StorYlade@aol.com
> 
> In a message dated 5/9/1999 9:47:47 AM Central Daylight Time, 
> jcwalters@bridgernet.com writes:
> 
> << IMO, JESSE'S SONG (Williamson, '83) meets all the criteria you have listed,
>  except the last one, >>
> 
> Purple plicatas are not among my favorites; however, I have two large clumps 
> of JS and have included it in my plicata line.  
> 
> BW
> 

	I cut my baby iris teeth on my grandmother's SWERTII (we always 
thought it was MADAME CHEREAU until a few years ago when the Old 
Farmers' Almanac set us straight).  Then ROCOCO, STEPPING OUT, and 
GOING MY WAY pushed out the baby teeth.  By the time the wisdom teeth 
erupted (iris-wise),  there came JESSE'S SONG and EVERYTHING PLUS, 
both eventually winning the Dykes.  I have never grown JS!  Never 
even wanted to!!!  Heresy, you say!  I have never liked it...maybe, I 
was just purple and white plicated out.  EVERYTHING PLUS came as an 
extra one year so I planted that, and I grew it for a few years.  The 
surprise of the century came when E P won the Dykes!  Was it worthy 
of such an honor??  I wonder.  E P is not that old, but how many 
catalogs list it?  How often do you see it in a show?  SONG OF 
NORWAY, SILVERADO, and DUSKY CHALLENGER are older than E P but are 
still listed and still winning shows.

	Could somebody tell me how EVERYTHING PLUS won the Dykes' Medal?? 

	How many still grow it?  It is a 90's iris!!!


	A Dykes' should be an 'iris for the ages,' but what about E P? (no 
offense to the hybridizer)

	Walter Moores
	Enid Lake, MS 7/8 (Yes, Virginia, there is a Santy Clause and 
	SHIRLEY M has a BLUE beard!)

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