Re: TB: Unidentified Historics
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] TB: Unidentified Historics
- From: J* B*
- Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 17:33:02 -0400
From: James Brooks <hirundo@tricon.net>
At 02:13 PM 5/24/99 EDT, you wrote:
>
><< Some lined the roadways...also a small TB colored like the MTB Frosted
> Velvet, very flashy and sometimes in mixed plantings with the pale yellow
> variety.>>
>
>Now, the checklist tells me that FROSTED VELVET is a little purple amoena.
>There are quite a few smaller historics of that sort from the earlier days
of
>the century. Three that come to mind are RHEIN NIXE ( G. u. K ,1910) MILDRED
>PRESBY (Farr, 1923) and MRS. ANDRIST ( Fryer, 1919). Another possibility,
>although rarer, is VICTORINE (Lemon, 1840). I'm sure there must be
>others......
>
I have currently blooming Rhein Nixe, Pfauenauge, Iduna, and Loreley from
G&K and all are much lighter in the falls than Frosted Velvet. I also have
Mrs. Andrist blooming just this weekend, and it is close to Frosted Velvet.
It would get my vote.
James Brooks
Jonesborough, TN
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