[SpaceAgeRobin] Re:Re: some suggestions for some additions

I thought all of them were in the Superstition photos too, but only found the same two you did after I posted the message.  I should have checked first.  Rick mentioned from whom the varieties came in his e-mail.
 
Rick said:  "SA's that I would recommend are Paul Black's Announcement, Hal Stahly's As You Were, Hager's Corps De Ballet and Besette's Trillion (which we think is overlooked)."
 
This was in a context of talking about breeders and what made good offspring, ranging over a variety of colors, types and so one.  This was his response to my mentioning the SAGE project.  Hager's Corps De Ballet may be pictured in either Cooley or Schreiner lists, but the Cooley list, the last time I accessed it had only thumbnail photos--no larger ones, and I don't find those little ones very useful.  You can't see things like haft width, shape of the fall and appendage very we, etc.  It is at least suggestive of color though.
 
AS YOU WERE was introduced by Stahly through the Bulletin, April 2001, no photo.  He says it is pink, 37", M.,  lightly laced and has consistent flounces (1 1/2 "), wide hafts and.....I forget what all was said.  Sounds like a good one to look at.  It is a seeedling from Thornberry X Twice Thrilling.
 
CORPS DE BALLET was introduced through Cooley's in 1998, is a pink with "baby ribbon blue" beard, short horns on early blooms, and 42 1/2" high.  The pedigree is long and involved and has Sky Hooks plus a lot of really good breeders of pink, including Pink Taffeta and One Desire..  The pedigree is found under JUMP FOR JOY, a sib, in the Check List.
 
As to the good varieties of newer, really good things that have BS or BSE, or are known to be ones that do produce a goodly percentage SA's YAQUINA BLUE is the only one I can point to for sure that most of us are likely to have.  I'd very much like to hear suggestions. 
 
In some photos--such as Char Holte's photos from the Fresno Convention, there were several that I noted that had definite suggestions of BS or BSE but I didn't take notes.  The next run-through I will.
 
Happy New Year to all of you--and I hope this season is a whoppingly good one.  We could stand one for a change.
 
We've gone from an overnight minimum of 7 degrees several days ago to a forecast of 70 degrees two days in a row later this week.  It has been up into the sixties for three days now, and no rain.  Am I supposed to put on the first borer treatment?  It surely isn't spring yet.....but if this keeps up, crocus and reticulata will be in bloom shortly.
 
Neil Mogensen  z 7 western NC mountains
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