Re: HYB:Side Branch Anomaly
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] HYB:Side Branch Anomaly
- From: w*@watervalley.net
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 07:40:13 -0600
- Priority: normal
Betty in Bowling Green writes:
> Walter,
>
> Most hybridizers are breeding for show bench iris. Much has been
> said, from
> time to time, about the difference in a good show iris and a good
> garden iris. It would seem to me that the sequence and placement of
> blooms is less important on garden iris.
>
Thanks for responding, Betty. Perhaps you are right. We are
between a rock and a hard place.
> And . . . should hybridizers introduce garden varieties that are not
> necessarily good on the show bench? At least one Dykes comes to mind.
>
> So, again---should hybridizers introduce irises that don't show well?
Donald Spoon is introducing what he calls 'garden' irises.
Several years ago in the AIS Bulletin, he had an extensive article
on them.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8
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