Re:CULT: Texas 1942 trial
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: Re:CULT: Texas 1942 trial
  • From: L* M* <1*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 17:55:53 -0500
I really need to be doing other stuff right now, but curiosity leads me on.
Mme. Chobaut (Den.) is one of the top performers in the Texas trial (100 blooms, rating of 9). The pedigree in the 1939 checklist is Ricardii X .... 

What IRISES. By W. RICKATSON DYKES,
(online! http://archive.org/stream/irisesdykeswilli00dykerich/irisesdykeswilli00dykerich_djvu.txt) 
has to say about I. ricardii is
<they seem to want more heat in summer than our climate usually vouchsafes them......Ricardii, is not a very hardy plant, and has the unfortunate habit of growing during the winter only to be injured by late frosts. Later in the season it revives, but there is of course little hope of flowers being produced under these 
circumstances. >
Sounds like Ricardii (or whatever it's now called) originally grew somewhere it didn't frost? Or is he talking about a hard freeze?
I have to get off this infernal machine! 1921 article in the Flower Grower by Mrs. Dean sez that the ricardii hybrids are prone to rot with too much water. 

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