Re: Re: HYB: REF: Helen Collingwood/Pink formal descendants

Linda  --  Here's a HELEN COLLINGWOOD descendant, 02B3, a seedling  that
first bloomed this year, so I haven't yet registered it.  It's parentage
   --  G954K13:(93B8:(Trudy x Wabash)xSweeter Than Wine) x Starring.  The HC
ancestry is through TRUDY.  --  Griff


----- Original Message -----
From: "Linda Mann" <lmann@volfirst.net>
To: "iris- talk" <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 4:46 PM
Subject: [iris] Re: HYB: REF: Helen Collingwood/Pink formal descendants


> Mike Lowe must be lurking or somebody forwarded my "talking to the
> stove" (old Grimm Brothers' Fairy tale) to him - he sent me everything
> descended from HELEN COLLINGWOOD and from PINK FORMAL.
>
> HC only shows up in pedigrees of 16 registered iris of all eras.  5 have
> HC as direct parent, rest are from seedlings of HC. Mike wondered why so
> few, & so do I.  Assuming that what I'm growing is HC (no reason to
> think otherwise at the moment), it is easily pod fertile, so that
> doesn't seem to be it.  Maybe it wasn't widely appreciated when it was
> newer?  Or maybe it wasn't fertile with the things folks were trying to
> cross it with?  Here's the list, sorted by date of registration:
>
>  BRAITHWAITE Randall 1952
>  ELIZABETH NOBLE K.Smith 1953
>  RICHMONDTOWN K.Smith 1955
>  HALLOWEEN Varner 1957
>  HONEY TONE Goett 1959
>  HILARY C&KSmith 1960
>  PARADOX  C&KSmith 1960
>  BLONDIE'S PRIDE Hite 1961
>  LONDON CRY Kelway 1963
>  TRUDY C.Tompkins 1964
>  KIMMIE LYNNE Friedline 1965
>  POST SCRIPT Tompkins 1965
>  BOBBIE LODER Riggs 1969
>  BREAD AND WINE  C.Smith 1970
>  VICTORIAN ERA C.Smith 1971
>  DZVINKA OlegAmekhin 1996
>
> I haven't looked any of these up yet in the online database to see how
> many show up in more recent pedigrees - trying to get some gardening
> done...
>
> The list of descendants from PINK FORMAL is several hundred.  If anybody
> is interested, let me know.
> --
> Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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