HIST: iris adventures

From: Linda Mann <lmann@icx.net>

On a visit to relatives in North Carolina Saturday, I was paying close
attention to all the really common historic irises that everyone seems
to share and found that my relatives had a few of them.  So I've added
to my collection of tough old unknowns:

tall, medium yellow, with super branching, very papery spathes.  Flowers
small, similar in size and form to the most common 'pallida' variant
that everybody grows around here.  Blooms mid or midlate.  This one
looks like it could have been born a hundred years ago or more.  VERY
floriforous, and everybody rich and poor seems to have at least one
clump of this one.

a raspberry violet bitone, slightly more modern in form than the yellow,
but still small and pretty old looking.  Very rich color, but not dark. 
I'd guess this one is probably from the turn of the century also. 

a rosy tan/rich brown bicolor.  Very pretty, shorter, much more modern
than the other two.  I'd guess this one is from the 30s? or maybe even
the 40s.

I forgot to take my camera with me (very nice, relatively cheap, Kodak
Advantix that takes reasonably good photo IDs with fairly good color
rendition most of the time).

Any suggestions as to what these might be would be appreciated, tho not
really expected - I know IDing these from this kind of description is
impossible.

Linda Mann east Tennessee USA


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