Re: Re: HYB: survivors (was Wishter)

Linda Mann asked "which 4 crosses made it?"

Neil responds:
This may not be very helpful information as the crosses were mostly among
seedlings or seedlings out to other named varieties.  Here they are, anyway:

T 02:  Cranberry Sauce X P 1-9, cranberry colored sib to POWER WOMAN:
Swingtown x Romantic Evening, cross made May 10, 54 seeds.

T 04:  R 16-16: (Power Woman x Happenstance)  X R 30-5:  (P 1-9, see above, x
Vienna Waltz), cross made May 11; 31 seeds plus a couple "chaff."

T 05: R 30-5 X R 16-16--the reciprocal cross to T 04, made the same day,
minutes later; 36 seeds.

T 14: Lenten Prayer X Infrared, made May 20; very small pod, 10 seeds.  The
parentage of Infrared is not known, but being a Ghio red, (a very dark red,
actually) one can speculate it is from the same general breeding as ROGUE
and/or ROMANTIC EVENING, but has a strong, good stem.

POWER WOMAN is the P 1-13 seedling of which I posted a photo to Iris-photos
earlier this year.  I owe the name to TBIS's "Tall Talk."  The cover photo on
this spring's issue had PIONEER WOMAN mislabeled "Power Woman."  I e-mailed
Rita Gormley immediately to locate the source of this, as a friend of mine has
her e-mail handle "pwrwmn" and I wanted to get it for her.  Rita told me it
was an error that crept in after the issue's proofs left her hand, and was
Pioneer, not Power.  Aw shucks!  So I contacted Keppel immediately, the name
wasn't taken, so I took it, pronto!  I won't tell what the garden handle for P
1-13 was, as it's not repeatable, but referred to the extraordianry width in
part.  "Power Woman" fit it, and, in addition, thrilled the heck out of
"pwrwmn" herself.

This is the first seedling I've registered since the seventies.  I was asked
yesterday in a post when and by whom it would be introduced.  No arrangements
have been made, and I don't even know it *will* be introduced.  That remains
to be seen after it has been guested out in a few places around the country
and some feedback received.  It is going to Sutton's, for one, and to Keppel's
for another.  I had hoped to send rhizomes out this year, but the weather made
proper growth impossible until well into August.

Neil Mogensen z 7 western NC

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