HIST: TB: 'Alcazar' and 'Picador' and Fragrance
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  • Subject: HIST: TB: 'Alcazar' and 'Picador' and Fragrance
  • From: J* I* J* <j*@usjoneses.com>
  • Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 08:03:59 -0700
Anner Whitehall sends:

Ms. Lohr asks:

"Hi all, Isn't Alcazar a root beer scented iris?"
'Alcazar' as grown here is very pronouncedly a "grape soda" scented iris.
'Picador,' mentioned recently on Iris-photos as a "root beer" iris, is a bright classic variegata from B. Y. Morrison of Washington DC in 1930. The 1939 AIS Check List does not indicate the flower is scented. 

Anner Whitehead
Richmond VA


On Nov 1, 2010, at 2:36 PM, Gesine Lohr wrote:


Hi all,

Isn't Alcazar a root beer scented iris?

see
www.iriscitygardens.com/bearded1.html
scroll down to Alcazar --

Gesine


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Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 10:25:18 -0500
From: lee hill <leehillmm@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: [iris] picture website
Thank you, Paul! I've been following this iris chat group for more than ten years in hopes of finding the elusive root beer iris. Picador is its name, I think. My daughter is in Germany now, and she will be able to look in these historic iris gardens for it next spring. She and I have searched all over 
the
US. She brought me three different slips this summer from old neighborhoods 
in
Connecticut that met my description of appearance and fragrance. She thinks 
at
least one or all of them may be the root beer iris that grew in my
grandmother's and my mother's gardens in the 1950's and 60's here in
Minnesota. They are all growing well, so far, and I am hoping for blossoms next spring. Should I provide any kind of mulch to help them overwinter?~Lee 

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