Re: CULT: tough iris heredity

--- In iris-talk@y..., Linda Mann <lmann@v...> wrote:
"Yep...all too easy to get swept up in looking for relationships
 when there is still the 'garbage in, garbage out' factor."

That is exactly the point I was trying to make.  The reference to the 
PROGENITOR-derived inhibitor was just a conspicuous example of 
inadvertant ancestry or incorrect records.  I doubt that inhibitor 
would arise spontaneously in modern cultivars, but who knows?  I 
myself assume that if it shows and it's genetic source is not there 
in the ancestry, something has gone awry.  Either a bee got there 
before the breeder did, someone mixed up some seeds, or something 
like that.

WHOLE CLOTH, incidentally, was primarily from very tough, hardy and 
proven ancestry (and a very believable pedigree).  In addition, Cook 
was working in the upper Midwest which has a climate likely to 
encourage hardiness in TB's given several generations of breeding.  
In WC's ancestry, I can't think of a tougher, more hardy variety than 
BLUE RHYTHM.  Of all the iris I found here on this place when I came, 
it was one of the two that had thrived, increased and toughed it out 
over many years of neglect.  Superlative ancestry!

Neil Mogensen  z 6b/7a near Asheville, Hendersonville NC


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