looking for SAGE candidates that do breed SA's

I have been going through the 2003 R&I entry by entry looking for SA registrations--of which there are a bunch!
 
My problem in identifying parents that breed SA's but are not SA's themselves is that so many of the crosses are complex, involving two or more generations, blurring the evidence for which I'm looking, or else they involve varieties that are not widely grown to the best of my knowledge.  I may yet fall upon a few, but this is tedious, intense attention requiring, reading, and involves searching three other R&I's and three Check Lists, as some of the parents predate 1980.
 
I can't guarentee I haven't missed some, but I have noticed that names of certain hybridizers keep showing up.  Some of these we already knew--Burseen, Spoon, Christopherson, Zurbrigg and Larry Lauer for example. 
 
Some of the names are new to me.  To help locate both people and plants I'm marking the book's entries "SA" in the margin. 
 
One thing might be rather fun--to include the PERCENTAGE of TB registrations that are SA this past year in our article for the *Bulletin.*  I think a lot of folks might be very surprised at how high that number is going to be.  I myself am surprised.....but when Schreiners and even Keith Keppel have an SA or two in their catalogs, and big time names like Lloyd Zurbrigg and Larry Lauer are happily working the type it does say something about the growing acceptance of SA's as a normal and natural part of what irises are and should be.
 
Part of what I hope comes out of our work with SAGE is to help that trend along by approaching the genetic question seriously and with style.  Nothing legitimates a thing more than a serious and systematic scientific piece of work.
 
Neil Mogensen   z  7  western (snowy again!) NC
 
 

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