Re: HYB:

From: "S&C Rust" <srust@fidnet.com>

Perry, that is all Stephanie needs is more hybridizing ideas!!  But she
would love the arilbred spot with horns or spoons.  Believe it or not, she
does have a line going on that...  She has a seedling from Fancy Tales x
Speacial Feature that is blue-purple with white hafts, the standards are
light blue inside, so far all flowers have feathered flounces!  The size of
the flower is closer to Fancy Tales than S.F., it is 30" tall, thinner but
strong stalks, wide branching, only 6 buds on the first year stalk.  The
foliage is not good, but maybe she can use it for hybridizing.  She wanted
to take it to the show yesterday, but I de-headed it for her.  I was holding
it on the way to set up Friday night when I noticed the "door ajar" sign
blinking on the van panel.  In a hurry, I jumped out to go round to close
it.  Wasn't till I was halfway out the door that I noticed I had neglected
to put the van in park and had it in reverse.  It obligingly headed out to
crash into my new aluminum horse trailer (no!!!), so I jumped back in and
jammed it into park.  Unfortunately, off with the seedling's head.  She did
get to take the Schreiner seedling others on this list have liked (it is
very pretty) and a really odd seedling she found in Grandpa's yard.  It is
an MTB with six falls and broken color, nice branching, great vigor, super
clumps, purple leaf bases...but the judges didn't give it a ribbon.  Sent it
on to the St. Louis show with Barb Fouts.  Some other judges voted for it at
our show and it did cause a big stir with the other exhibitors and visitors.
Have no notion of its breeding.  Grandpa didn't have anything else like it,
just a bunch of TBs.  Another mystery! Basically it looks like a variagata
with the standards splashed in a random pattern of purple.  The first day
its open the standards are just very wide open, then by the end of the day
they lay flat down.  When you first see it, you may not even recognize it as
an iris.  I didn't, but it sure drew me over.  I looked at it from a lot of
angles till I decided it wasn't a strange siberian, but an MTB.  I thought
maybe it was Joseph's Coat gone haywire, but other iristalkers have said no.
Guess it is its own crazy self!

Cindy Rust, Missouri




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