Re: Neat Trick

I have used it with several things as a pollen parent, but it is reluctant
as a pod parent. My best crosses involve it and appaoolsa blue, a lighter
blue with a similar sort of pattern.  It seems that the two pattterns are
different and can be overlayed, giving a range of shades in the pattern.
It is a cross of Janet K. Merill and Shirley Pope, two siberians.  The
checklist lists it as a setosa, which it is not.  It has two siblings
rgistered by John white, Maurice Pope and Elisabeth McEwen, which are
listed as siberian crosses as well.  Kind of interesting, HUH?  I think it
is simply a registration error.  Neat Trick's biggest fault is the thin
appearance of the tips of the falls, due perhaps to the broken color
pattern being caused by ill-developed petal tissue.  Again, the only
seedlings I have from it used another broken color iris, so it is
difficult to say how  reliable the trait is to work with.
Andrew Wheeler

1 more final tommorrow and I am done for the semester!!!!!

> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Has anyone used this iris for hybridizing?  Is it fertile?  Is it really
> a hybrid between a siberian and  a setosa iris?  If anyone has been
> sucessful in using it in hybridizing, have any of the seedlings shown
> the "whiter" falls?
> 
> Thanks for any responses.
> Jim in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada zone 2-3 where we have had as low
> as -50 C(~55 F) with the wind chill factor and as warm as -25 C(~15 F)
> during the day lately.  The time of year when I marvel at just how
> plants of all kinds survive the winters.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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