roots - Historic Iris Preservation Society

ROOTS 

Journal of the 

Historic Iris Preservation Society 

Volume 23 Issue 1 Spring 2010

In This Issue. . . 

Cover: 'Painted Doll' (D. Boen 1964) 

HIPS 2010 Rhizome Sale Issue 

2 HIPS At Your Service 

3 Rhizome Sale note 

3 HIPS Bookstore Dorothy Stiefel 

4 From the President Paul Gossett 

4 Proposed Slate of officers 

4 2010 Convention Meetings May 31-June 5 

5 HIPsters -- officers & chairs listing 

6 Iris Gems on the World Wide Web, including 

AIS Bulletin #1-355 TOCs scanned! by Jack Finney 

7 Farewell to E. Roy Epperson 

8 Irises in a Graveyard Nigel Service 

10 Mr. Marshal’s Flower Book - 

“The Florilegium” of Alexander Marshal 

reviewed by 

Jim Morris 

12 “Vanity, vanity, all is vanity” Keith Keppel 

13 HIPS 2010 Rhizome Sale! Janice Thompson 

14 Rhizome Sale list 

18 Photos of some Rhizome Sale iris Gesine Lohr 

20 The Pickel Barrel House Historic Iris Garden~ 

How to develop a display/conservation-ofunknowns 

iris garden Nancy McDonald 

26 Cook-Williamson Memorial Iris Garden, 

Part II 

Jerry Oswalt 

28 Reader Rock Garden 

Call for Donations 

Janet Jones 

30 Commercial Sources Listing Jeff Walters 

31 HIPS Slide Sets! update Robert and Linda Karr 

32 HIPS Historic Iris Designation Survey 

Jean Richter 

33 Catalog corner 

35 In Retrospect descriptions 

35 From Your Editor Gesine Lohr 

36 In Retrospect 

Hi p s Me m b e r s h i p Ra t e s: 

Single annual $ 10.00 Single Triennial $ 24.00 

Dual annual $ 12.00 Dual Triennial $ 30.00 

Separate youth $ 5.00 Youth in add.adult $ 2.00 

Single Life $150.00 Dual Life $175.00 

Overseas – add $5.00 for postage 

TO JOIN, contact Judy Eckhoff, Membership 

EDITOR Gesine Lohr (510) 864-7962 1226 High 

Street, Alameda CA 94501 gesine.lohr@gmail.com 

Ro o t s, Jo u r n a l o f t h e Historic Ir i s Pr e s e r v a t i o n So c i e t y, 

is published biannually in Spring and Fall. Fall 

deadline is 15 September, Spring deadline is 15 

March. Ro o t s is paid for by a combination of HIPS 

membership dues, and HIPS' yearly Rhizome Sale. 

Any article appearing in Ro o t s may be reprinted 

unless specifically prohibited. Proper credit must 

accompany the reprint; please send a courtesy copy 

to Ro o t s Editor Gesine Lohr. 

Ph o t o Cr e d i t s: If not otherwise noted, graphics and 

photos by Gesine Lohr. Mike Unser contributed six 

photos on pages 18-19, Bonnie Petheram contributed 

two on page 19. 

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HIPS At Your Service! 

How do I join HIPS and subscribe to Ro o t s? 

See below left for HIPS membership rates. You 

can mail payment to Membership Judy Eckhoff 7911 

South Yoder Road, Haven, KS 67543-8114 

judy67543@gmail.com (620) 662-8083, or subscribe via 

the internet at www.hips-roots.com/visitors/v-shoppe.html 

What if I don’t receive an issue of Ro o t s? 

First, check with Judy Eckhoff to make sure your 

membership is current and that your address is correct 

on our mailing list. Then contact Editor Gesine Lohr 

(510) 864-7962 1226 High Street, Alameda CA 94501 

gesine.lohr@gmail.com 

What is the cutoff date for historics? 

Iris introduced 30 or more years ago is the 

definition used by HIPS. Some suggest calling pre- 

1950 iris, "heirloom", "antique", "old", "vintage"; 

newer historics might be termed "classics". I'm leaning 

towards "heirloom historics". What are your thoughts? 

See Historic Iris Designation Survey, p. 32. 

Where can I buy historic iris? 

-- See Commercial Sources Listing in Ro o t s 

-- See HIPS Rhizome Sale list in Spring Ro o t s, 

& same list on HIPS website after Ro o t s is mailed 

-- Contact Jeff Walters, Sources Chair 

Where do I find historic iris on the Internet? 

www.hips-roots.com 

If you don’t have internet access at home, it’s 

worth a trip to the local library to see the photos on our 

website! (Librarians are usually helpful about finding 

such things). 

Who can help me locate old irises? 

Contact Carlos Ayento, DataBank 

and Carlos Ayento's Master Historic Iris List 

http://www.brightonparkiris.com/masterhistoriclist.xls 

What reference material is there? 

See list of HIPS Bookstore in Ro o t s & website 

See list of archives on website in reading room, 

or write for paper copy to Gesine Lohr 

See the many articles in reading room on website 

Where can I see historic iris displays? 

Display Gardens! see annual list on HIPS website 

(can also order printed copy from HIPS Bookstore) 

Who can help identify old irises? 

Website ID forum, & Phil Edinger, ID Chair 

Where can I rent slide sets of historic irises? 

Contact HIPS Slide Chairs -- $12.00 rental fee 

I live outside the U.S. How do I get iris information 

and/or plants? Contact Darlene Cook, International

2010 HIPS Rhizome Sale! 

See page 13 for how to order! pages 14-17 

for the huge list of cultivars offered this year! 

and pages 18-19 for photos of SOME of the 

offerings. Thank you, donors, for really coming 

forward! and thanks to the Rhizome Sale team 

for doing this huge project! 

Ordering deadline is June 15, 2010 

As always, Mike Unser will have the Rhizome 

Sale list up on HIPS' website shortly after this 

issue of Ro o t s is mailed out. He'll have links to 

photos of many of the iris offered. 


As I've said many times, if you don't have 

a computer and internet access at home, it 

is WELL worth a trip to the library, to see 

the extensive photos and information on the 

website! Most librarians are quite happy to help 

you find www.hips-roots.com, even if you've 

never sat in front of a computer; and once you're 

at the site, it's very easy to get around and look 

at everything. 

The list on the website will also be updated 

with any last-minute additions -- the list here is 

current as of April 1st. 

The photos of 98 of the iris offered, on pages 

18-19, are a first time endeavor for me. There 

is NO correlation between an iris being pictured 

there, and how many rhizomes are available! 

Also, given my penchant for the earlier historics, 

my photos are slanted towards older iris (send 

me photos of more recent ones for next year!). 

We're working on having a list of 

descriptions up on the website, as was done the 

other year. -- Gesine 

HIPS Bookstore 

All items include postage 

HIPS Publications 

Dorothy A. Stiefel 

260 Michigan Hollow Rd. 

If you can only spend 

$24, get Cornell Bulletin 

112 & A Study of 

Pogoniris Varieties, both 

by A. W. W. Sand 

Spencer, NY 14883 

See note page 4, new edition Cornell Bulletin112! 

You can also order from the HIPS website, using Paypal, 


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~ HIPS Bookstore ~ 

(note new prices) 

Hi s t o r i c a l Ch r o n i c l e s: (p h o t o c o p i e s): 

1) History of Iris; 2) Caparne & Mitchell; 6) Goos & 

Koenemann; 16) Violet Insole; 17) Charles Wing -- 

$6.00 Each 

3) Foster; 4) Millet; 5) Vilmorin & Andrieux; 7) Barr 

& Sons; 8) W.R. & K. Dykes; 9) Cayeux Iris Varieties; 

14) Fryer; 21) Florentina; 22) Albicans; 23) Iris in 

Medicine; 29) Poems & Songs; -- $8.00 Each 

11) E. B. Williamson; 13) Farr; 15) Orpington Iris; 19) 

Louisa Pesel; 20) B. Y. Morrison; 28) Jean Stevens; -- 

$10.00 Each 

10) Lémon Irises; 12) Sturtevant; 18) Perry; 24) Hort; 

30) The Sasses -- $12.00 Each 

26. Dwarfs; 33) Simonet Doc. Thesis I; 34) Simonet 

Doc. Thesis II -- $14.00 Each 

25) Hall -- $16.00 Each 

27) Bliss -- $20.00 Each 

AIS Bu l l e t i n s: 

#1 -- 27: photocopies $5.00 Each 

Re p r i n t AIS 50 t h An n i v e r s a ry Bu l l e t i n, Ja n u a ry 

1970 $10.00 Each 

Cata l o g Re p r i n t s: 

1922 R. Wa l l a c e & Co. Ir i s Cata l o g $6.00 

1951 Te l l’s Ir i s Ga r d e n s Cata l o g & Hy b r i d i z e r’s 

Ha n d b o o k $5.00 

ROOTS b a c k issues: 

Fa l l 1988 t h r o u g h Sp r i n g 2001 $4.00 e a c h 

Fa l l 2001 o n (c o l o r) 

$7.00 e a c h 

(some issues sold out) 

HIPS Di s p l ay Ga r d e n Di r e c t o ry, 2010 $10.00 

Re f e r e n c e Mat e r i a l: 

Co r n e l l Bu l l e t i n 112 b y Au s t i n W. W. Sa n d; 

“Th e b e s t o l d iris r e f e r e n c e in e x i s t e n c e” $12.00 

A St u d y o f Po g o n i r i s Va r i e t i e s b y Au s t i n W. W. 

Sa n d (Cornell University Memoir #100, July 1926) 

$12.00 

Ga r d e n Ir i s e s, U.S. De p t. o f Ag r i c u lt u r e 

Fa r m e r s Bu l l e t i n 1406 $8.00 

Re v. C. S. Ha r r i s o n Om n i b u s $25.00 

Lo u i s v i l l e Hy b r i d i z e r s o f t h e Pa s t – 

Ro b e rt St r o h m a n $6.00 

Co m p r e h e n s i v e Ch e c k l i s t o f Ar i l a n d Ar i l b r e d 

Ir i s. Softcover, 200+ pages $20.00 

De s c r i p t i o n s o f Historic Ar i l a n d Ar i l b r e d 

Cu lt i va r s: Su p p l e m e n t to a b o v e $5.00 

Note that prices for overseas orders are different -- see 

them at www.hips-roots.com/members/shoppe2.html

From the President ~ 

WOW! Spring is here and we are in another 

Iris bloom season. This last year sure went by very 

quickly. I hope everyone will have an excellent 2010 

bloom season. 

I have been contacted by several people asking 

for assistance with locating historic irises for home 

gardens as well as public gardens, and identifying 

historic irises found. The latest request has come from 

the Reader Rock Garden in Calgary, Alberta Canada. 

You will find more information about the garden and 

the irises they are looking for in this issue of Ro o t s. 

Hopefully you are planning on attending 

the AIS Convention in Madison, WI from May 31, 

2010 through June 5, 2010. To help the Society For 

Siberian Irises celebrate their 50th Anniversary as a 

society, Anne and Mike Lowe will be presenting a 

program on Historic Siberians at the HIPS General 

Membership Meeting/Program. I hope to see you 

there. CONGRATULATIONS to the Society For 

Siberian Irises as they celebrate 50 years. 

I hope you will consider participating in the 

2010 Rhizome Sale by either donating rhizomes or 

purchasing rhizomes. The list is in this issue; you can 

also go to the HIPS Web Site at www.hips-roots.com 

for the list of irises or contact Janice Thompson at 

ciris03@yahoo.com or Barbara Jackson at jacksonb@ 

mts.net for more information. 

On behalf of the HIPS Board of Directors and 

the HIPS Membership, I would like to extend our 

condolences and sympathy to the family of E. Roy 

Epperson and to the American Iris Society in the loss 

of Dr. E. Roy Epperson, President of the American Iris 

Society. 

It would be interesting to hear from you about 

how historic irises are doing in your area whether it be 

in the garden or in a show. So, please write to me or 

Gesine Lohr, Ro o t s Editor. 

Please support the commercial gardens listed 

in Ro o t s and on the HIPS Web Site, under Sources, by 

ordering a catalog and buying some historic irises to 

add to your garden. 

As always, keep growing those Historic Irises. 

If you have any questions about HIPS, please 

feel free to contact me at pwgossett@juno.com. 

Paul 

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Proposed Slate of Officers 

The slate of officers proposed by the Nominating 

Committee is: 

Treasurer Rita Gormley (2nd Term) 

Northwest Director Robert Karr (2nd Term) 

Southwest Director Susan Boyce (2nd Term) 

Nominating Committee: 

Judy Hunt, Chair judyhunt1@bellsouth.net 

Laetitia Munro 

Robert Strohman 

As always, a vote will be taken at the HIPS General 

Meeting at the 2010 Convention. 

New reprint of Cornell Bulletin #112 

Again available! Cornell Extension Bulletin 

#112, 'Bearded Iris, A Perennial Suited to All 

Gardens' by Austin W.W. Sand, first published 

in 1925. This high-quality reprint is archival 

paper, with a protective plastic cover. Spiral 

bound for easy opening and use in the garden! 

Our #1 seller in the quest for learning to see 

and recognize the details that help identify old 

irises. Price $12.00 postpaid in North America; 

$15.00 postpaid elsewhere. -- Dorothy A. Stiefel 

"Mad About Iris!" 

AIS 2010 Convention May 31-June 5 

Madison, Wisconsin 

www.irises.org/conventions.htm 

www.madisoniris.org/Convention/Welcome.htm 

I love the slogan, “Mad about iris”! 

HIPS BOARD MEETING 

Tuesday June 1, 2010 

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm 

HIPS GENERAL MEETING & PROGRAM 

Looks like their website is calling the section 

meetings “programs” 

Friday June 4, 2010 

5:30pm - 6:30pm HIPS Program (immediately 

before the Geek Dinner & Auction) 

Anne and Mike Lowe will be presenting a program 

on Historic Siberians 

(Rooms not yet listed)

President 

Paul Gossett 

Rhizome Sale Chair Janice Thompson 

(918) 853-6204 (new #) 129 E 33rd Place 

ciris03@yahoo.com 2970 Luella Road 

pwgossett@juno.com Tulsa, OK 74105-2542 (903) 893-9195 Sherman, TX 75090 

Vice President 

Gary White 

Rhizome Sale Co-chair Barb Jackson 

(402) 421-6394 701 Old Cheney Rd. jacksonb@mts.net 2421 McDonald Avenue 

in2iris@yahoo.com Lincoln, NE 68512 

(204) 725-4696 Brandon, MB R7B 0A6 

CANADA (Manitoba) 

Secretary 

Linda Sercus 

Rhizome Sale Co-chair Judy Eckhoff (see Membership) 

(973) 783-5974 474 Upper Mountain Ave. 

ls1124@aol.com Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 

Treasurer 

Rita Gormley 

Slides Co-chair Robert Karr 

Phone & fax (386) 277-2057 205 Catalonia Avenue Slides Co-chair Linda Karr 

cell 314-606-9709 P. O. Box 177 

(509) 671-1539 (Robert) 205 N. Craig Avenue 

gormleygreenery@aol.com DeLeon Springs, FL 32130 (509) 671-1540 (Linda) Newport, WA 99156 

iris@sprucecorner.com 

Imm. Past President Donna James (see NE Dir.) Variety ID Philip Edinger 

(707) 894-3225 P.O. Box 637 

oldflag@sonic.net Cloverdale, CA 95425 

Archive Gesine Lohr (see Editor) Webmaster Mike Unser www.hips-roots.com 

(360) 432-8900 PO Box 6308 

garden.of.mu@gmail.com Olympia, WA 98507 

Commercial Sources Jeff Walters 

(864) 594-6736 1175 Woodburn Rd 

iriscomsource@yahoo.com Spartansburg, SC 29302-3440 

Directors: 

Cultivar Preservation Jean Richter 

(510) 864-7962 1226 High Street 

richter@eecs.berkeley.edu Alameda CA 94501 

DataBank 

Carlos Ayento 

6108 S. Natchez Avenue 

brightonparkiris@yahoo.com Chicago, IL 60638 

Display Gardens Laetitia Munro 

(973) 208-8490 49 Hilltop Rd. 

sugarbean1@optonline.net Newfoundland, NJ 07435 

Editor 

Gesine Lohr 

(510) 864-7962 1226 High Street 

gesine.lohr@gmail.com Alameda, CA 94501 

International 

Darlene Cook 

0649-827-7386 20 Tane Street 

threesisters@woosh.co.nz New Lynn, Auckland 0600 NZ 

Honoraries & Awards Anne Lowe 

(804) 265-8198 12219 Zilles Road 

anne@worldiris.com Blackstone, VA 23824-9394 

Membership 

Judy Eckhoff 

(620) 662-8083 7911 South Yoder Road 

judy67543@gmail.com Haven, KS 67543-8114 

Publications Sales Dorothy Stiefel 

(607) 589-7465 260 Michigan Hollow Rd. 

Irisacher@aol.com Spencer NY 1488 

Northeast Donna James (R. 1, 2, 3, 19) 

(315) 598-3346 887 County Rte. 3 

ron2don@twcny.rr.com Hannibal, NY 13074 

North Central 

Barbara Jackson (see R. Sale) 

(R. 6, 8,9,11,16, 21) 

Northwest 

Robert Karr (see Slides) 

(Reg. 13, 14) 

Southeast Judy Hunt (Reg. 4, 5, 7, 24) 

(502) 267-5074 6701 Echo Trail 

judyhunt1@bellsouth.net Louisville, KY 40299 

South Central Joe Spears (R. 10, 17, 18, 22) 

(940) 464-3680 910 Pioneer Circle 

irises@argyleacres.com Argyle, TX 76226 

Southwest Susan Boyce (R. 12, 15, 20, 23) 

(801) 985-0255 5123 S. 3500 W. 

irisgal@hotmail.com Roy, Utah 84067 

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Searchable PDFs of scans of 

AIS Bulletin Table of Contents 

for Bulletins #1-355 (!) 

From first bulletin, June, 1920 thru October 2009 

Jack Finney has done a labor of love -- 

Dear Friends, 

I have just completed a project that has 

literally been years in the making. I scanned the tables 

of contents (TOCs) of all the American Iris Society 

Bulletins with Optical Character Recognition 

software so that you can use the Search function in 

Microsoft Word to look for articles on a particular 

subject. The software wasn't very good, so some of 

the formats got weird, and I had to almost retype a 

lot of the first 80 or so TOCs because the paper had 

deteriorated so badly. It was a chore, and the result 

is not pretty, but it is serviceable. The scholar 

in me just couldn't stand for all the wisdom in the 

Bulletins not to be readily accessible to those who 

wanted to use it. Of course, the AIS's official indexing 

project continues, and someday it will offer 

much more than my work provides. 

John R. "Jack" Finney, PhD 

www.hips-roots.com/articles/ref-aisb-toc-downloads.html 

This is a huge amount of work, thank you 

so much, Jack! I've already had a lot of fun searching 

for various articles; quite easy to use. 

Royal Horticultural Society Color Charts - 

an approximation on the internet! 

www.azaleas.org/index.pl/rhsmacfan1.html 

www.azaleas.org/index.pl/azcolorsystems.html 

has information about a number of formal color 

description systems 

www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/RHS-Publications/RHScolour-charts 

"The RHS Colour Chart is the standard 

reference for plant colour identification. Used 

by the RHS, the chart is indispensable to gardeners 

who value accuracy in the identification of plant 

colours....It is because the chart has been specially 

developed to match nature's own colours that it 

has become such a useful tool. 76 new colours 

have been added to the existing 808. These fill 

gaps in the dark purple-black, green, grey, orangered 

and bright orange ranges providing colour 

references for previously difficult to match plants 

including dahlias, chrysanthemums and irises. 

How To Say It! 

www.finegardening.com/pguide/pronunciationguide-to-botanical-latin.aspx 

has a neat "how to pronounce botanical names" 

section -- scroll down thru the alphabet to Iris..... 

it'll show you phonetic pronunciation, and will 

speak the names you click on! 

www.botanicgardens.ie/educ/names3.pdf 

discusses nomenclature. Thanks to Patty Del 

Negro for finding this and mentioning it in the 

forum at HIPS website. 

Iris Gems on the World Wide Web 

A very helpful list of cultivars by vendor, is compiled 

each year by Carlos Ayento (thank you Carlos!) -- 

MASTER HISTORIC IRIS LIST 2010 

www.brightonparkiris.com/masterhistoriclist.xls 

AIS Check List database -- Iris Register 

$10/year, well worth it! You can search by name, 

hybridizer. www.irises.org/irischecklist.htm 

Mike Lowe's site, the original HIPS website 

www.worldiris.com/public_html/Frame_pages/ 

QFix.html Thank you, Mike, for keeping this 

available! I've spent many many happy hours here! 

HIPS' website www.hips-roots.com 

It's easy to read PDFs -- PDFs are 

"portable document format" files, just a way to 

put files that were made in many different programs, 

into a basket so anyone can read them 

using the free Adobe Reader. For example, I 

make my slideshow in PowerPoint, but send it 

out as a PDF document, which makes it accessible 

to anyone whether they have the PowerPoint 

program or not. This is neat! If your computer 

doesn't have Adobe Reader, get it free at http:// 

get.adobe.com/reader/ 

Free copy of combined "How to 

look at historic iris" slideshow 

If anyone would like a free copy of my combined 

"How to look at historic iris" slideshow, please 

let me know, I could mail you one on a CD if you 

send me postage. If you have an email account 

that can accept 15 MB size attachments (the free 

gmail does, sign up at www.google.com, see 

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en/about. 

html), I can email it to you very easily. -- Gesine 

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Farewell to E. Roy Epperson 

We were sad to hear that our AIS President, 

E. Roy Epperson, had died. Below, he 

is smiling at ‘The Red Douglas’ ( J. Sass 

1937) at the HIPS planting at 2009 AIS 

Convention. He told me this iris was the 

first one he’d ever bought, ordering it from 

Sears & Roebuck about 60 years ago. 

above & below: 'Elmohr' (Loomis-Long 1942) 

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Irises In A Graveyard 

by Nigel Service (France) 

The unsophisticated magnificence of 

an iris I saw last spring, widespread across 

northeast Greece in Muslim cemeteries, put 

me in mind of other graveyards seen. The 

tradition of Irises planted on tombs has been 

widespread, a mourning flower not confined 

to the white Iris albicans; forms of Iris 

germanica are quite often used in European 

graveyards for planting. 

What about the graveyards of the 

USA? I cannot recall, though I could easily 

enough be wrong, mention of such places in 

Roots. 

But I have had one small experience 

myself which convinced me that interesting 

things might easily be found and anyone 

who does not like the idea of lifting bits 

of Irises from graves would bear in mind 

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that a dead person could have no finer 

memorial than that the rediscovery of a lost 

Iris should be linked, in memory and in the 

records, with the name on their tombstone. 

I am thinking of one occasion in 

particular but there is no reason why it 

should be unique, as numerous small towns 

must have been founded and abandoned 

in the earlier days of the American west. It 

was in Colorado where I was looking for I. 

missouriensis and, as happens when you are 

looking for a wild iris, you tend to inquire 

of anybody around if they have seen such 

flowers anywhere. “Have you been to the 

cemeteries of the dead towns above Central 

City? Turn left in the town, there are plenty 

of Irises up there,” advised a friend. 

Not quite the sort of irises I was 

thinking of perhaps, but a visit to Central 

City became a previously unplanned part of 

the expedition. The cemeteries were not that 

easy to find; left turns seemed rare. No, not 

easy unless you were lucky, and we were 

lucky. 

It was more a complex of graveyards, 

covering a large area and mostly quite 

sparsely furnished with tombs which were 

often highly imaginative. The sections were 

separated, each faith having its own space. 

Certainly the Roman Catholic burials were 

clearly distinct and a notice announced the 

fenced off space as this. 

All sign of the town, which must have 

been sizable to justify such a complex, had 

gone. Or was it a collective burial ground? 

he had said “dead towns” in the plural -- a 

burial center for several now abandoned 

townships? In that case, the sparseness of 

tombs is even more remarkable. Perhaps 

it did not work out well right from the 

beginning. Anyway, we are thinking of 

irises, not of settlements and their failure. 

And there were irises, or their foliage, 

left: Tall bearded 

Iris in a Muslim 

cemetery at Organi, 

northeast Greece, 

May 2009 

on a good number 

of the graves. The 

altitude was about 

9,000 feet and 

there was no sign of 

flowering, but foliage

above: Cemetery above Central City, Colorado, 

June 2006; the grave of Elizabeth A., died 1877, is 

in the middle with Iris leaves clearly evident 

in plenty was on and around numerous 

tombs. One of the first graves was that of 

the Jeffery family dying at the end of the 19 th 

century -- here was Fred’s grave and that of 

M.J. with iris plants growing around them. 

Not far away was the collective tomb area 

of the Martin family where a different iris 

grew, and more irises were further over at 

the grave of Elizabeth A., who had died, aged 

just over one year, in 1877. 

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So, as the place dates from the late 19 th 

century, it would not be unreasonable 

to suggest that the plants would be 

from that sort of period also. But I am 

afraid I noted no other dates; I was not then 

thinking of historic hybrids. I am glad to 

say, though, that I did find one patch of the 

species I was looking for, growing wild, not 

associated with a tomb but well within the 

boundaries of the cemetery. 

[Editor’s note: Did you dig up a little piece of 

any of the bearded iris you saw?]

Mr. Marshal’s Flower Book - 

“The Florilegium” of Alexander Marshal 

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2008 

Book Review by Jim Morris 

When you pick up 

a book copyrighted 

by the Queen of 

England (HM 

Queen Elizabeth 

II, 2008) one 

rather expects it to 

be something of 

substance. This book 

is that and more. 

The modern title 

of “Mr. Marshal’s 

Flower Book” 

means the same 

as “The Florilegium” of Alexander Marshal (c. 1620- 

1682). It is the only compilation of flower watercolors 

from seventeenth-century England. Marshal was a 

horticulturist and entomologist who was highly skilled 

as an artist, but he painted for his own pleasure – not for 

publication or to document scientific discoveries such as 

presented by Pierre Vallet, Jardin du Roy (Paris 1608) or 

Basil Besler, Hortus Eystettenis (Eichstatt 1613). Most 

florilegia of the age were part of the scientific desire 

to identify, classify and record the plants pouring into 

England, France, Germany and the Netherlands from 

all over the world. Marshal was different, he just liked 

flowers and the bugs and birds associated with them, and 

he painted them to his own exacting standards. 

Marshal’s masterpiece of watercolors took him 

thirty years to complete. This modern compilation 

of 140 illustrations is stunning in its beauty. House & 

Garden said, “Exquisitely beautiful, the flower paintings 

of Alexander Marshal have a timeless resonance that 

makes them look as fresh today as they did when they 

were first created more than 350 years ago.” What 

appears to be a totally distaff production, the abridged 

text is by Henrietta McBurney and Prudence Sutcliffe 

with Marshal’s illustrations gleaned from the Royal 

left: Picture of German Flag iris germanica 

(two forms) 

above: I. susiana L. Mourning Iris 

Alexander Marshal, c.1650 

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markings and in some species, the beard.” 

It goes on to report that the English Royal 

Society was so impressed by Marshal’s 

work that they asked him how he 

obtained the vivid colors in his paintings. 

His response was read to the members 

of the Royal Society on December 19, 

1667. He derived pigments from flowers, 

berries, gums and roots as well as verdigris 

and arsenic. His paint formulas give his 

paintings a unique vibrancy of color. This is a marvelous 

book for amateur and professional alike. 

above: I. pumila L Alexander Marshal, 1650 

left: Siberian Flag Iris Alexander Marshal, 

The Florilegium, c. 1670 

below: English Iris Alexander Marshal 

c.1650 

Collection (since King George IV). 

Marshal painted everything he grew and more, 

from snowdrops, squill, hyacinths and daffodils in the 

English “winter” to star anemones, tulips and irises in 

the spring. With sufficient means he acquired and grew 

exciting plants from the Near East, Virginia, Canada and 

all the British colonies. He grew them in all seasons out 

of doors and under glass, and painted them as well as 

any man or woman. 

Among the various genera depicted are irises 

such as I. susiana L. the mourning iris, I. pumila L., 

I. persica L., the common German flags (two forms), 

English irises, Spanish irises and Siberian flag iris. The 

text reports, “The forms of irises in particular seem to 

have fascinated Marshal – the way the flower rises from 

its stem, the papery calyx, the contrast between the 

shapes of the drooping and upright petals, the flower’s 

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"Vanity, vanity, all is vanity..." ~ Historical Vanity 

by Keith Keppel 

The AIS Registrations system 

is noteworthy for its extent, both in 

numbers of cultivars recorded and 

the appropriate information per each. 

However, sleuthing can sometimes 

disclose inaccuracies or omissions. We 

might cite an example, The Case of the 

Missing Vanities. 

In 1928 B. Y. Morrison registered 

‘Vanity’ which is shown in the 

1939 Check List as having been introduced 

in 1930. It is also shown in 

1939 as superseded ($) and obsolete 

(*)! Earl Sheets, in his Treholme Gardens 

“Iris lover’s guide and descriptive 

catalogue” gives more information: 

“M.S. to L., 38” S. Lilac; F. 

Bishop’s purple to Madder purple. All 

habits good. A striking color resembling 

Leverrier but a flower of better 

form on stronger, low and widely 

branched stalks.” 

He gave ‘Vanity’ his personal 

quality ratings of Exhibition 87 (= fine) 

and Garden 90 (= extra fine). 

In 1945 Frances Horton introduced 

fourteen dwarf irises in her 

Elkhart, Indiana, Irisdale Gardens catalogue. 

“Parentage mixed in moving”, 

she noted. Twelve of the fourteen are 

shown as registered in the 1949 Check 

List, the exceptions being ‘Princeling’ 

and ‘Vanity’. She described the latter as being an 11” 

clean light yellow self, falls slightly veined olive at the 

haft, with matching beards and semi-horizontal falls. 

Now back to a tall bearded. A few months later, 

in a Stevens Brothers catalogue issued in New Zealand, 

we find ‘Vanity’ to be: 

“A gay, rosy lilac blend, large and of good form. 

In the standards the lilac is shot with light bronze. Falls 

are a lovely blending of lilac and gold with a flash of 

heliotrope below the yellow beard. Flowers several times 

a year when established. Early. 3 ft.” 

From information in Jean Stevens’ notebooks we 

find it first bloomed in 1943 and was saved as seedling 

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6/P80. Its parentage is ‘Miss California’ X ((‘Rewa’ x 

‘New Dawn’) x (‘New Dawn’ x ‘Radiant Morn’)). We 

also know that it reached southern California, for plants 

were shipped to C. S. Milliken in December, 1947, and 

Tom Craig the following month. Did it receive further 

distribution in this country? 

Finally, in 1974 Ben Hager registered ‘Vanity’, 

which was introduced by Melrose Gardens in 1975 

and was awarded the Dykes Medal in 1982. It was the 

fourth ‘Vanity’….or were there more? 

{Editor's note -- One of these 'Vanities' is available in 

this year's HIPS Rhizome Sale}

HIPS 2010 Rhizome Sale! 

The Annual HIPS Rhizome Sale is the main fundraising event for our Society. Rhizomes are donated by 

our generous members and growers; the sale is open to both members and the public. HIPS is grateful for the 

generosity of our members and donors and the support of all who place orders. 

Sale conditions: 

-- The Iris listed below are on a first come, first served basis. Demand is such that we must set a limit of no 

more than one of each cultivar per order. 

-- Rhizomes are $5.50 each, with a minimum order of five. 

-- Postage charges are included in the price. 

-- Cut off date for orders is June 15, 2010. Shipment will begin the last week of July. 

-- Due to import restrictions shipping is limited to the US and Canada. 

-- Orders from Canada must come thru Paypal or Money Order in US funds. 

-- While we will do our best to see that you get the correct cultivar, HIPS cannot guarantee identity of 

sale rhizomes. 

Please note: Include in your order acceptable substitutions or a note indicating if you'd prefer a refund if one 

you want is not available; also any acceptable bonuses if wanted with your order. 

How to order: There are two ways to get your order in. 

1) The customary way -- mail a check/Money Order and your list with all shipping information to: 

Janice Thompson 

2970 Luella Road 

Sherman,Tx. 75090-5151 

2) Or order online using your Paypal account (you must be registered with Paypal to use this option). Go to 

Paypal at www.paypal.com and then follow these instructions 

-- Click on ’Send money’. 

-- In the ‘To' field use: hipsshop@gmail.com 

-- Enter the full amount of your order (Postage is included in the price). 

-- Select ‘Goods’, then click Continue 

-- On the next page in the subject line type: rhizome sale-member order (you MUST indicate MEMBER to get 

preference over non-member orders) 

-- Add your list of varieties you'd like in the message box and your mailing address as well. 

-- When complete simply click Send Money and your order is on its way! 

Please send questions about the sale or your order to Janice Thompson at: ciris03@yahoo.com. Please send 

questions about using Paypal or online ordering to Mike Unser at: garden.of.mu@gmail.com. 

Thank you for supporting HIPS! 

What a splendid bunch of possibilities for this year's Rhizome Sale! This is the largest list to date. 

Thank you, all, for donating! Those of you ordering by mail, if you're ordering a number of cultivars, might 

want to photocopy the list pages and circle or highlight your choices, rather than writing them all out. -- Editor 

Photo credits: The photos on pages 18-19 of 'Golden Majesty', 'Gypsy', 'Harvest Splendor', 'Klamath', 

'Marquita', and 'Rebellion' were taken by Mike Unser; the photos of 'Rhythm' and 'Sacramento" are by Bonnie 

Petheram; all other photos are by Gesine Lohr. 

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Abelard (Sass, H.P. 1933) 

Accent (Buss 1953) 

Acolyte (Taylor, JD 1963) 

Alcazar (Vilmorin 1910) 

Allegiance (Cook 1958) 

Alpine Glow (Kleinsorge 1944) 

Alta California (Mohr-Mitchell 

1931) 

Amas (Foster 1885) 

Amethyst Flame (Schreiners 1958) 

Amigo (Williamson 1934) 

Angels Robe (Williamson, B. 

1979) 

Apache Warrior (Brown, A. 1972) 

Aphrodite (Dykes 1922) 

Appleblossom Pink (Boushay 

1974) 

Arctic Night (Brown, A. 1966) 

Argus Pheasant (DeForest 1947) 

Arrangement (Goett 1963) 

Autumn Sunset (Lapham 1939) 

Avalon Bay (Hamner 1975) 

Az Ap (Ensminger 1980) 

Babbling Brook (Keppel 1965) 

Baby Blessed (Zurbrigg 1979) 

Baby Snowflake (Peterson 1963) 

Bali Rose (Sass, H. 1955) 

Banberry Ruffles (Schreiners 

1970) 

Barbara Walther (Casselman 

1959) 

Barrister (Meek 1980) 

Bashful Bride (Roderick 1980) 

Bayberry Candle (DeForest 1966) 

Beauty Mark (Schreiners 1979) 

Beaux Arts (Plough 1969) 

Beckon (Daling 1974) 

Bel Canto (Hager 1981) 

Belize (unregistered ) 

Bella Mohr (Ohl 1955) 

Bengal Tiger (Maryott 1980) 

Beowulf (Schreiners 1936) 

Beverly Sills (Hager 1978) 

Big Brother (Tolman 1976) 

Black And Gold (Kleinsorge 

1943) 

Black Baby (Sass, H. 1955) 

Black Bart (Schmelzer 1969) 

Black Hope (Austin 1963) 

Black Market (Plough 1974) 

Black Swan (Fay 1960) 

Black Taffeta (Songer 1954) 

Black Watch (Rosenfels 1972) 

Blackberry Wine (Bledsoe 1976) 

Blanc De Chine (Moldovan 1978) 

Blazing Bonnet (Galer 1972) 

Blazing Fury (Smith, E. 1968) 

Blazing Saddles (Dyer 1978) 

Blessed Again (Jones, F. 1978) 

Blond Goddess (Shoop 1974) 

Bloodstone (Schreiners 1980) 

Blue Ace (Rosenfels 1964) 

Blue Denim (Warburton 1959) 

Blue Doll (Warburton 1958) 

Blue Luster (Brown, O. 1973) 

Blue Rhythm (Whiting 1945) 

Blue Ruffles (Barton by Maxwell 

1954) 

Blue Sapphire (Schreiners 1953) 

Blue Sparks (Welch 1964) 

Blue Staccato (Gibson 1977) 

Blue Theme (Palmer 1977) 

Blue Whiskers (Welch 1960) 

Blushing Pink (Rudolph 1977) 

Bold Accent (Brown, O. 1978) 

Bold Chase (Jones, B. 1971) 

Bonanza (Sass, J. 1939) 

Brahms' Lullaby (Spahn 1978) 

Brandy (McWhirter 1981) 

Breaking Dawn (Schreiners 1971) 

Bridal Wreath (Weiler 1979) 

Bride (Caparne 1901) 

Brides Halo (Mohr 1971) 

Brigantine (Tompkins 1966) 

Bright Reflection (Brown, O. 

1979) 

Brimmed Red Amo (Morgan 

1981) 

Bristol Gem (Leavitt 1965) 

British Blue (Willott 1979) 

Broadmeadow (Brown, O. 1962) 

Broadway Star (Schreiners 1957) 

Brook Flower (Schreiners 1973) 

Brown Heart (Dyer 1975) 

Brown Lasso (Buckles 1972) 

Bryce Canyon (Kleinsorge 1944) 

Bubbling Springs (Brown, O. 

1971) 

Buddha Song (Dunbar 1970) 

Buffy (Brown, O. 1968) 

Burgundy Splash (Craig 1948) 

Burnt Toffee (Schreiners 1977) 

Buto (Sass, H.P. 1926) 

Butterscotch Trim (Buckles by 

Niswonger 1972) 

Caldron (Schreiners 1957) 

Calendar Girl (Smith, E. 1973) 

California Blue (Essig 1929) 

California Gold (Mohr-Mitchell 

1933) 

Camelot Rose (Tompkins 1965) 

Can Can Red (Gibson 1978) 

Candy Apple (Hamblen 1972) 

Candy Shop (Corlew 1970) 

Canton Jewel (Galer 1973) 

Caprice (Vilmorin 1898) 

Caramba (Keppel 1975) 

Cardinal (Bliss 1922) 

Carnival Time (Schreiners 1976) 

Carolina Gold (Powell 1970) 

Carved Pink (Rudolph 1975) 

Cascade Splendor (Kleinsorge 

1944) 

Catalyst (Keppel 1980) 

Cathedral Bells (Wallace 1953) 

Celestial Snow (Bro. Charles 

1957) 

Chalk Talk (Thomkins 1970) 

Charcoal (Plough 1969) 

Chatterbox (Schreiners 1978) 

Cheerio (Ayres 1934) 

Cheers (Habge 1975) 

Cherie (Hall 1945) 

Cherished (Corlew 1973) 

Cherry Garden (Jones, B. 1966) 

Cherry Jubilee (Wood 1969) 

Cherry Smoke (Meek 1978) 

Cherub Tears (Boushay 1976) 

China Dragon (Shoop 1979) 

China Maid (Milliken 1936) 

Chinese Coral (Fay, R. 1962) 

Chivary (Wills 1943) 

Chocoleto (Deru 1959) 

Christmas Angel (DeForest 1960) 

Christmas Rubies (Hamblen 1978) 

Christmas Time (Schreiners 1965) 

Cindy Ellen (Brown, O. 1972) 

Cindy Mitchell (Palmer 1979) 

Cinnabar (Williamson 1928) 

Circus Stripes (Plough 1976) 

City of David (Boushay 1977) 

Clair de Lune (Wareham 1934) 

Clancy (Roach 1972) 

Clara Noyes (Sass, H.P. 1930) 

Cliffs Of Dover (Fay, R. 1953) 

Cloverdale (Brown, O. 1969) 

Colonel Candelot (Millet 1907) 

Color Carnival (DeForest 1949) 

Colorado Sunshine (Magee 1978) 

Columbia Blue (Schreiners 1978) 

Columbine (Murrell 1930) 

Condottiere (Cayeux 1978) 

Congo Magic (Hooker 1973) 

Copper Classic (Roderick 1977) 

Copy Cat (Ghio 1974) 

Coral Magic (Schreiners 1979) 

Coral Ribbon (Berndt 1974) 

Coralie (Ayres 1932) 

Corn Harvest (Wyatt 1977) 

Coronation (Moore 1927) 

Corsage (Watkins 1955) 

Cosmic Lady (Keppel 1980) 

Cotton Blossom (Jones, B. 1970) 

Country Manor (Kegerise 1973) 

Cozy Calico (Schreiners 1980) 

Cracken (Schreiners 1974) 

Cranberry Ice (Schreiners 1973) 

Crimson King (Barr 1893) 

Crinkled Lilac (Schreiners 1957) 

Crinoline (Schreiners 1965) 

Crown Point (Tompkins 1958) 

Crystal Dawn (Rudolph 1976) 

Cuban Cutie (Dyer 1977) 

Curtain Call (Schreiners 1967) 

Daisy (Palmer 1977) 

Dappled Dragon (Payne 1969) 

Dark Chocolate (Murray 1954) 

Dark Fairy (Brown, A. 1960) 

Dasher (Brown, O. 1977) 

Dauntless (Connell 1929) 

Dawn (Yeld 1911) 

Dazzelier (Hall by Bloese 1952) 

Dazzling Gold (Anderson 1977) 

Debby Rairdon (Kintz 1964) 

Decolletage (Hager 1970) 

Deep Pacific (Burger 1975) 

Demi-Deuil (Denis 1912) 

Dera (Craig 1962) 

Desert Echo (Meek 1980) 

Desert Song (Fay, O. 1946) 

Dignitary (Ghio 1976) 

Diligence (Brown, A. by Boushay 

1976) 

Disco Music (Williamson, B. 

1977) 

Discovery Bay (Brown, O. 1970) 

Distant Light (Plough 1976) 

Dogrose (Insole 1930) 

Doll Dear (Blodgett 1980) 

Dolly Madison (Williamson 1926) 

Dominion (Bliss 1917) 

Dorothy K. Williamson (Williamson 

1918) 

Dot And Dash (Hall 1960) 

Double Dip (Rawlins 1978) 

Double Rose Amo (Morgan 1979) 

Dove Wings (Roberts 1968) 

Dover Beach (Nearpass 1972) 

Dragonfly (Dykes 1923) 

Dream Affair (Gatty 1978) 

Dream Lover (Tams 1971) 

Dream Maiden (Smith, E. 1963) 

Dreamcastle (Cook 1943) 

Dualtone (Brown, O. 1977) 

Dusky Dancer (Luihn 1967) 

Dusky Evening (Schreiners 1971) 

Dutch Chocolate (Schreiners 

1970) 

Dutch Doll (Sass by Graham 

1957) 

Early Snowbird (Gibson 1971) 

Easter Bonnet (Maxwell-Norton 

1943) 

Eastertime (Schreiners 1980) 

Easy Grace (Tompkins 1976) 

Ecstatic Night (Cook 1963) 

Edenite (Plough 1959) 

El Capitan (Mohr-Mitchell 1926) 

Eleanor Roosevelt (Sass-McDade 

1933) 

Eleanor's Pride (Watkins 1956) 

Embroidery (Keppel 1971) 

Emerald Fountain (Brown, O. 

1961) 

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Emma Louisa (Buckles 1969) 

Enchanted World (Schreiners 

1979) 

End Play (Spence 1976) 

English Cottage (Zurbrigg 1976) 

Erleen Richeson (Roderick 1979) 

Ermine Robe (Schreiners 1969) 

Eros (Mead-Reidel 1934) 

Esther, The Queen (Hunt 1967) 

Etched Apricot (Gibson 1967) 

Everlasting Love (Dyer 1979) 

Exotic Blue (Randolph 1957) 

Exotic Star (Plough 1975) 

Eyebright (Taylor 1979) 

Fairy Ballet (Sarro 1973) 

Fairy Carillon (Payne 1969) 

Fairy Magic (Schreiners 1969) 

Falbala (Cayeux 1977) 

Fancy Tales (Shoop 1980) 

Fantastic Blue (Palmer 1975) 

Far Corners (Moldovan 1978) 

Far Hills (Wills 1947) 

Fascination (Cayeux 1927) 

Fashion Fling (Hall 1965) 

Fashionable Pink (Schreiners 

1976) 

Faustine (Lemon 1859) 

Feminine Charm (Kegerise 1974) 

Festive Aire (Brown, O. 1976) 

Festoon (Hall 1958) 

Fiesta Sun (Schmelzer 1970) 

Fiji Dancer (Zurbrigg 1978) 

Fine Precedent (Blyth 1977/78) 

Fine Taste (Nicholls 1977) 

Fire Chief (Gaylon 1959) 

Fire Dance (Fay, O. 1947) 

Fire Power (Plough 1977) 

Firenze (Brown, O. 1958) 

Firewater (Keppel 1977) 

Firey Furnace (Niswonger 1971) 

First Edition (Lorenz 1970) 

First Violet (DeForest 1952) 

Five Star Admiral (Marsh 1974) 

Flamboyant Dream (Boushay 

1978) 

Flamenco (Flamenco 1977) 

Flaming Dragon (Fay 1966) 

Flaming Light (Brown, R. 1973) 

Flaming Star (Plough 1967) 

Flash Fire (Plough 1978) 

Flavescens (collected, DeCandolle 

1813) 

Flirty Mary (Rawdon 1977) 

Florentina (collected 1500) 

Flounced Premiere (Austin 1961) 

Flower Power (Plough 1969) 

Fluted Lime (Noyd 1966) 

Flutter-by (Sturtevant 1924) 

Focus (Keppel 1976) 

Footnote (Keppel 1969) 

Fragrant Too (Schmelzer by Baldwin 

1979) 


Frank Adams (Lapham 1937) 

Fresno Calypso (Weiler 1978) 

Frivolity (Schreiners 1970) 

Frost And Flame (Hall 1957) 

Frosted Glass (Becherer 1943) 

Frosted Starlight (Ghio 1963) 

Frosted Sunbeam (Bakke-Messer 

1974) 

Full House (Meek 1976) 

Full Tide (Brown, O. 1972) 

Funtastic (Plough 1978) 

G. P. Baker (Perry 1930) 

Gala Madrid (Peterson 1967) 

Galatea Marx (Marx 1961) 

Galleon Gold (Schreiners 1977) 

Garden Magic (Griner 1936) 

Gay Geisha (Olson 1961) 

Gay Hussar (Williamson 1929) 

Gay Parasol (Schreiners 1973) 

Gay Paree (Plough 1956) 

Geisha Gown (Maddox 1963) 

Gemini (Knopf 1966) 

Gene Buckles (Buckles by Niswonger 

1975) 

Generosity (Keppel 1979) 

Gentle Grace (Boushay 1979) 

Gentle Rain (Keppel 1977) 

Gerald Darby (Darby by Coe 

1967) 

Giant Rose (Schreiners 1959) 

Gigglepot (Blyth 1980/81) 

Gingerbread Castle (Tompkins 

1967) 

Gingersnap (Schreiners 1965) 

Gizmo (Hager 1976) 

Glacier Magic (Plough 1977) 

Glazed Orange (Schreiners 1969) 

Glory Bound (Nelson 1978) 

Glowing Embers (Sturtevant 

1923) 

Going My Way (Gibson 1972) 

Gold Cadillac (Gaulter 1979) 

Gold Fever (Nichols 1979) 

Gold Galore (Schreiners 1978) 

Gold Smoke (Clarke 1952) 

Gold Soverign (Whiting 1949) 

Golden Delight (Smith, E. 1959) 

Golden Filigree (Gibson 1965) 

Golden Frost (Brown, A. 1972) 

Golden Garnet (Gibson 1980) 

Golden Knight (Pond 1974) 

Golden Lady (Combs 1956) 

Golden Majesty (Salbach 1938) 

Golden Spectator (Haney 1968) 

Golden Streaker (Bledsoe 1978) 

Golden Years (Hall 1957) 

Goldfish (Wareham 1925) 

Gracchus (Ware 1884) 

Gracie Pfost (Smith, E. 1961) 

Grand Canyon (Kleinsorge 1941) 

Grandma's Hat (Mahood 1957) 

Graphic Arts (Hager 1978) 

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Great Lakes (Cousins 1938) 

Green Smoke (Smith, E. 1959) 

Green Spot (Cook 1951) 

Greenan Castle (Beattie 1971) 

Grenadine (Gersdorff 1946) 

Guardian Gate (Moldovan 1979) 

Gypsy (Kleinsorge 1944) 

Gypsy Baron (Schreiners 1942) 

Gypsy Caravan (Moldovan 1978) 

Gypsy Fire (Smith, E. 1967) 

Gypsy Melody (Smith, E. 1966) 

Gypsy Prince (Hamblen 1974) 

Hagar's Helmet (Nichols 1977) 

Hammered Copper (Roberts 1974) 

Hanky (Magee 1988) 

Happy Mood (Brown, A. 1968) 

Harland K Riley (MacMillan 

1974) 

Harriet Thoreau (Cook 1944) 

Harvest Splendor (Kleinsorge 

1956) 

Hawaiian Holiday (Brown, T. 

1965) 

Hazel's Pink (Schmelzer by Baldwin 

1978) 

Heather Blush (Hamner 1977) 

Heaven's Best (Smith, E. 1972) 

Hee Haw (Innerst 1980) 

Helen Boehm (Schreiners 1977) 

Helen Collingwood (Smith, K. 

1949) 

Helen McGregor (Graves 1946) 

Helios (Cayeux 1928) 

Hell's Fire (Roberts 1976) 

Henna Stitches (Gibson 1961) 

Henri Riviere (Millet 1927) 

Henry Shaw (Benson 1959) 

Hey Looky (Brown, W. 1970) 

High Jinks (Williams 1970) 

High Life (Schreiners 1964) 

High Sierra (Gaulter 1967) 

Highland Chief (Gibson 1972) 

Hold That Tiger (Lauck 1957) 

Holy Smoke (Smith, E. 1958) 

Honest Pleasure (Plough 1979) 

Honey Chile (Salbach 1940) 

Horned Amethyst (Austin 1959) 

Horned Dragonfly (Austin 1965) 

Horned Flamingo (Austin 1963) 

Horned Royalty (Austin 1958) 

Horned Skylark (Austin 1957) 

Horned Sunshine (Noyd 1968) 

Howdy Folks (Nelson, J. 1979) 

Hula Doll (Brown, A. 1964) 

Humoresque (Keppel 1962) 

I Do (Zurbrigg 1974) 

I. albicans (Lange 1860) 

I. kochii (Kerner 1887) 

I. ochroleuca (Linnaeus 1771) 

I. pallida (Lamarck 1789) 

I. pallida argentea / Zebra (G&K 

1906) 

I. pallida aurea variegata (Krelage 

& sons 1930) 

Ice Fairy (Witt 1966) 

Image Maker (Williamson 1983) 

Imperial Blush (Sass, H.P. 1932) 

Indian Chief (Ayres 1929) 

Indian Hills (Grant 1935) 

Indigo Rim (Gibson 1974) 

Inferno (Schreiners 1975) 

Inner Circle (Ghio 1977) 

Inscription (Boushay 1978) 

Instant Charm (Brown, O. 1974) 

Instant Love (Hamblen 1977) 

Intensity (Ferguson 1968) 

Interpol (Plough 1972) 

Irish Doll (Brown, A. 1963) 

Ishmael (Boushay 1977) 

Island Fiesta (Plough 1979) 

Ivory Plumes (Plough 1980) 

Ivy League (Nearpass 1969) 

Jacaranda (Gaulter 1980) 

Japanesque (Farr 1922) 

Java Charm (Plough 1975) 

Jean Cayeux (Cayeux 1931) 

Jean Sibelius (Benson 1959) 

Jeanne Price (Jones, B. 1977) 

Jesse's Song (Williamson, B. 

1979) 

Jet Fire (Tompkins 1964) 

Jewel (Whiting 1952) 

Jewel Tone (Schreiners 1966) 

Jeweled Starlight (Burch 1980) 

Joyance (Dykes, K. 1929) 

Joyce Terry (Muhlestein 1974) 

July Sunshine (Brown 1965) 

Junaluska (Kirkland 1934) 

June Prom (Brown, A. 1967) 

June Sunset (Niswonger 1980) 

Jungle Shadows (Sass by Graham 

1959) 

Kalahari (Plough 1972) 

Kaleidoscope (Katkamier 1929) 

Kayo (Niswonger 1980) 

Kentucky Bluegrass (Jones, B. 

1970) 

Kentucky Derby (Mohr, D. 1976) 

Kermesina (collected 1901) 

Key Lime (Zurbrigg 1977) 

Kharput (Barr 1895) 

Kilt Lilt (Gibson 1970) 

Kimberly (Schreiners 1960) 

King's Jester (Stevens 1945) 

Klamath (Kleinsorge 1929) 

Knick-Knack (Greenlee 1961) 

Knotty Pine (Goett, 1961) 

Koala (Mohr 1975) 

Kona Coast (Plough 1973) 

Kontiki (Plough 1966) 

L.Merton Gage (Lapham 1942) 

La Bohemienne (Millet et Fils 

1926) 

Laced Cotton (Schreiners 1978)


Laced Lemonade (Warburton 

1970) 

Lacy Snowflake (Schreiners 1976) 

Lady Boscawen (Graves 1942) 

Lady Friend (Ghio 1980) 

Lady In Red (Willott 1973) 

Lady Marie (Muhlstein 1975) 

Lady Serena (Soults 1972) 

Ladyslippers (Suiter 1958) 

Land Of Oz (Brown, O. 1979) 

Last Dance (McWhirter 1979) 

Late Returns (Wright 1967) 

Late, Late Display (Nelson, J. 

1974) 

Latin Lover (Shoop 1969) 

Laurel Park (Gaulter 1978) 

Laurie (Gaulter 1976) 

Lavender Blue Lace (Schortman 

1978) 

Lavender Petticoat (Osbourne 

1975) 

Lavender Sparkle (Schreiners 

1965) 

Leda's Lover (Hager 1980) 

Lemon Brocade (Rudolph 1974) 

Lemon Duet (Smith, R.G. 1978) 

Lemon Lark (Seedon by Hanson 

1980) 

Lemon Mist (Rudolph 1972) 

Lemon Parfait (Soults 1972) 

Lent A. Williamson (Williamson 

1918) 

Licorice Stick (Schreiners 1961) 

Liebestraum (Spahn 1978) 

Light Fantastic (Brown, O. 1968) 

Lighted Within (Blodgett 1980) 

Lightning Ridge (Brown, O. 

1966) 

Lilac Mist (Luihn 1969) 

Lilac Thrill (Niswonger 1979) 

Lilac Treat (Niswonger 1970) 

Limelight (Hall 1952) 

Limerick (Keppel 1973) 

Little Champ (Brown, A. 1961) 

Little Chestnut (Brizendine 1971) 

Little Dandy (Riley 1976) 

Little Mark (Quadros 1966) 

Little Sunbeam (Brown, A. 1968) 

Little Susie (Quadros 1970) 

London Fog (Plough 1976) 

Loop The Loop (Schreiners 1975) 

Lord Baltimore (Nearpass 1969) 

Loreley (G&K 1909) 

Lothario (Schreiners 1942) 

Louvois (Cayeux 1936) 

Love Child (Knocke 1979) 

Love Note (Brown, A. 1972) 

Love With Lace (Plough 1971) 

Lustre (Dykes 1925) 

Lynn With Love (Boushay 1973) 

Madame Louis Aureau (Cayeux 

1934) 

Madison Cooper (Fryer 1919) 

Maestro Puccini (Benson 1972) 

Magenta Rose (Gibson 1977) 

Magic Man (Blyth 1979/80) 

Magic Memories (Clark by Nichols 

1973) 

Magnifique (Ghio 1978) 

Malaysia (Ghio 1974) 

Mandolin (Ghio 1977) 

Maraschino (Keppel 1979) 

Margarita (Schreiners 1968) 

Mark (Love 1973/74) 

Marquita (Cayeux 1931) 

Mary Frances (Gaulter 1971) 

Mary Geddes (Stahlman/Washington 

1931) 

Mary Randall (Fay 1951) 

Master Charles (Williamson 1943) 

Master Touch (Schreiners 1980) 

Matinata (Schreiners 1968) 

Matterhorn (Sass, J. 1938) 

Maumelle (Butler 1976) 

Melanie (Hill 1941) 

Melted Chocolate (Daling 1977) 

Mercedes (Reuthe 1938) 

Meredith Hues (Powell 1969) 

Metallic Blue (Niswonger 1980) 

Mexicali Rose (Spahn 1979) 

Mexicana (Salter 1859) 

Michael Paul (Jones, W. 1979) 

Michigan Pride (Berndt 1975) 

Mildred Presby (Farr 1923) 

Mini Dynamo (Brown, A. 1978) 

Mischief (Reinhardt 1955) 

Miss California (Salbach 1936) 

Miss Indiana (Cook 1961) 

Mission Ridge (Plough 1973) 

Missouri (Grinter 1933) 

Misty Watercolors (Niswonger 

1976) 

Mme. Chereau (Lemon 1844) 

Mme. De Sevigne (Denis 1916) 

Mohr Pretender (Rich 1977) 

Monsignor (Vilmorin 1907) 

Moon Madness (Smith, E. 1970) 

Moonlight (Dykes, W. R. 1923) 

Moonlit Sea (Sass, J. 1942) 

Moonstruck (Schreiners 1979) 

Morocco Rose (Loomis 1937) 

Mount Spokane (Smith, E. 1971) 

Mrs. Nate Rudolph (Rudolph 

1975) 

Mulberry Rose (Schreiners 1941) 

Mussolini (Dykes, K. 1932) 

Mystic Eye (Denny 1978) 

Mystique (Ghio 1975) 

Nassak (Sass, H.P. 1933) 

Navajo Blanket (Schreiners 1978) 

Navy Doll (Brown, A. 1968) 

Navy Strut (Schreiners 1972) 

Neglecta (collected, Horne 1813) 

Neon Magic (Brown, O. 1974) 

Neptune's Pool (Moldovan 1972) 

New Covenant (Boushay 1974) 

New Era (Sass Bros. 1949) 

New Moon (Sexton 1968) 

New Rochelle (Hamblen 1974) 

New Snow (Fay 1945) 

Nifty (Palmer 1975) 

Night Blizzard (Payne 1964) 

Night Deposit (Steinhauer 1974) 

Night Owl (Schreiners 1970) 

Night Time (Cook, P. by Cook, E. 

1969) 

Now And Later (Zurbrigg 1972) 

Odyssey (Babson 1971) 

Oklahoma Bandit (Nichols, H. 

1979) 

Ola Kala (Sass, J. 1942) 

Old Gold (Sass, H.P. 1929) 

Old Master (Ghio 1980) 

On Line (Schreiners 1980) 

On The Go (Plough 1974) 

One Desire (Shoop 1960) 

Opening Night (Gibson 1970) 

Orange Caper (Warburton 1964) 

Orange Empire (Hamner 1974) 

Orchid Cloud (Applegate 1974) 

Orchid Mist (Sass 1950) 

Orelio (DeForest 1947) 

Othello (Lemon 1848) 

Ovation (Tompkins 1969) 

P. T. Barnham (Meek 1979) 

Pacific Mist (Schreiners 1979) 

Pacific Panorama (Sexton 1960) 

Painted Desert (Milliken 1942) 

Paradise (Gatty 1980) 

Paradise Pink (Lapham 1949) 

Parthenon (Connell 1934) 

Patches (Gaulter 1979) 

Patina (Keppel 1978) 

Peach Bavarian (Willott 1978) 

Peach Frost (Schreiners 1972) 

Peach Sundae (Hamner 1978) 

Pearl Chiffon (Varner 1972) 

Peek A Boo (Brown, O. 1968) 

Penny A Pinch (Steinhauer 1977) 

Pepper Blend (Moores 1977) 

Perfume Counter (Zurbrigg 1972) 

Perique (Beattie 1960) 

Persian Berry (Gaulter 1976) 

Petite Posy (Schreiners 1975) 

Pharaoh's Gold (Brown, O. 1980) 

Picadilly (Bunyard 1939) 

Pinafore Pink (Persian Berry 

1977) 

Pink Bubbles (Hager 1980) 

Pink Cameo (Fay 1946) 

Pink Challenge (Brown, O. 1975) 

Pink Champagne (Lauer 2001) 

Pink Cheer (Plough 1969) 

Pink Confetti (Gibson 1976) 

Pink Formal (Muhlstein 1949) 

Pink Fringe (Rudolph 1967) 

Pink Horizon (Schreiners 1968) 

Pink Kitten (Wood 1977) 

Pink Magnolia (Brown, O. 1970) 

Pink Marble (Austin 1955) 

Pink Opal (Sass, J. 1934) 

Pink Pussycat (Tompkins 1969) 

Pink Sleigh (Rudolph 1970) 

Pink Swirl (Wedow 1974) 

Pink Taffeta (Rudolph 1968) 

Pink Tiger (El Dorado Gardens 

1965) 

Pink Unicorn (Austin 1960) 

Pinwheel (Schreiners 1962) 

Piute Pass (Daling 1975) 

Pixie (Sass, H.P. 1928) 

Playgirl (Gatty 1977) 

Pleasure Faire (Gatty 1974) 

Pleated Gown (Roderick 1981) 

Plicutie (Brown, A. 1967) 

Popcorn (Hager 1977) 

Porta Villa (Gibson 1973) 

Portrait Of Larrie (Gaulter 1979) 

Post Time (Schreiners 1971) 

Potpourri (Hamblen 1976) 

Powder Peach (Kegerise 1974) 

Prairie Sunset (Sass, H.P. 1936) 

Praise The Lord (Boushay 1972) 

President Pilkington (Cayeux 

1931) 

Pretender (Cook 1951) 

Pretty Pansy (Sass Bros. 1946) 

Priceless Pearl (Schreiners 1972) 

Pride Of Ireland (Noyd 1970) 

Prospector (Kleinsorge 1950) 

Prosper Laugier (Verdier 1914) 

Puppy Love (Hager 1980) 

Purissima (Mohr-Mitchell 1927) 

Purple Haven (Reynolds 1957) 

Pussycat (Schmelzer 1967) 

Quaker Lady (Farr 1909) 

Queen In Calico (Gibson 1980) 

Queen Of May (Salter bef. 1859) 

Quiet Isle (Plough 1972) 

Quiet Kingdom (Boushay 1977) 

Quietude (Keppel 1972) 

Quilting Party (Kavan by Ennenga 

1977) 

Quivering Flame (Zurbrigg 1960) 

Radiant Apogee (Gibson 1966) 

Radiant Smile (Danielson 1968) 

Rain Dance (Jones, B. 1979) 

Rain Shadow (Plough 1971) 

Rainbow Bridge (Moldovan 1970) 

Rainbow Room (Sass, J. 1946) 

Rainy Pass (Plough 1978) 

Rameses (Sass, H.P. 1928) 

Ramona S (Smith, E. 1971) 

Rare Edition (Gatty 1980) 

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Raspberry Blush (Hamblen 1975) 

Raziza (Plough 1975) 

Rebellion (Kleinsorge 1937) 

Red Cloud (Farr 1913) 

Red Heart (Brown, A. 1966) 

Red Polish (Craig 1967) 

Red Ruler (Craig 1969) 

Regents' Row (Denney 1979) 

Returning Glory (Smith, R.G. 

1972) 

Reva (Plough 1974) 

Rhages (Mead-Reidel 1934) 

Rhea (Williamson 1928) 

Rheinfels (G&K 1928) 

Rheingauperle (G&K 1924) 

Rhythm (Ballard 1950) 

Right On (Nelson, J. 1974) 

Ringo (Shoop 1979) 

Rippling Waters (Fay 1961) 

Ritz (Schreiners 1968) 

Rival (Shoop 1976) 

River Hawk (Plough 1979) 

Rocket Thruster (Plough 1978) 

Ron (Hamblen 1981) 

Rondo (Schreiners 1973) 

Rose Unique (Farr 1910) 

Rosy Veil (Sass, H. E. 1953) 

Rosy Wings (Gage 1935) 

Roustabout (Brown, A. 1976) 

Royal Ballet (Mohr, K. 1978) 

Royal Cape (Mayberry 1973) 

Royal Contrast (Brown, A. 1962) 

Royal Touch (Schreiners 1967) 

Ruffled Ballet (Roderick 1973) 

Russet Wings (Wills 1945) 

Sable (Cook 1938) 

Sable Night (Cook 1952) 

Sacramento (Mohr-Mitchell 1929) 

Saddle Shoes (Plough 1971) 

Saint Teresa (Nichols 1977) 

San Francisco (Mohr-Mitchell 

1927) 

Sans Souci (Van Houtte 1854) 

Santa Cruz (Mitchell 1945) 

Santana (Keppel 1978) 

Sapphire Gem (Schmelzer 1975) 

Sapphire Hills (Schreiners 1971) 

Saramohr (Loomis by Gates 1961) 

Saturday Night Fever (Nichols 

1979) 

Saucy Sue (Gibson 1968) 

Sayonara (Spahn 1980) 

Scandal (Beattie 1962) 

Séance (Ghio 1969) 

Seaside (Brown, O. 1967) 

Sentry (Noyd 1970) 

Seventh Heaven (Lapham 1955) 

Shaft Of Gold (Sexton 197) 

Shaman (DuBose 1980) 

Shasta (Mohr-Mitchell 1927) 

Shawano (Williamson, M. 1939) 

Sheriffa (White, C.G. 1941) 

Shipshape (Babson 1969) 

Show Biz (Gatty 1980) 

Showcase (Schreiners 1975) 

Sierra Blue (Essig 1932) 

Silent Majesty (Hamblen 1977) 

Silkie (Hager 1969) 

Silver Heather (Niswonger 1978) 

Silver Peak (DeForest 1962) 

Silver Skies (Corlew 1966) 

Silver Years (Hager 1980) 

Sindjkha (Sturtevant 1918) 

Sing Again (Plough 1966) 

Singing Rain (Daling 1973) 

Skip Stitch (Rawdon 1977) 

Sky Gem (Leavitt 1973) 

Sky Hooks (Osborne 1980) 

Skyfire (Schreiners 1980) 

Skylab (Sexton 1974) 

Skywatch (Benson 1964) 

Sleepytime Gal (Spahn 1978) 

Smoke Rings (Gibson 1971) 

Smoky Mountain (Smith, E. 1964) 

Sneak Preview (Nelson, J. 1980) 

Snow Cloud (Schreiners 1970) 

Snow Flurry (Rees 1939) 

Snow Goddess (Becherer 1955) 

Snowy Wonderland (Brown, O. 

1979) 

So Rare (Shoop 1980) 

Social Butterfly (Denney 1980) 

Soft Air (Warburton 1973) 

Solid Gold (Kleinsorge 1951) 

Solid Mahogany (Sass, J. 1944) 

Son Of Star (Plough 1969) 

Song Of Erin (Roach 1971) 

Song Of Norway (Luihn 1979) 

Songster (Corlew 1975) 

Sophisticated Lady (Spahn 1979) 

Sostenique (Blyth 1975/76) 

Soul Music (Meek 1978) 

Sound Of Music (Brown, O. 1966) 

Southland Grape (Burch 1978) 

Space Dream (Smith, E. 1970) 

Spanish Peaks (Loomis 1946) 

Sparkling Sunrise (Schreiners 

1970) 

Spartan (Schreiners 1972) 

Spinning Wheel (Nearpass 1976) 

Spirit Of Memphis (Zurbrigg 

1977) 

Spring Bride (Brown, O. 1976) 

Spring Butterfly (Hobbs by 

Hanson 1978) 

Spun Gold (Glutzbeck 1939) 

Square Dance (Mohr, K. 1979) 

Stage Door (Corlew 1979) 

Stained Glass (Wilhelm 1939) 

Star At Midnight (Rich 1964) 

Starring Role (Palmer 1973) 

Staten Island (Smith, K. 1947) 

Steppin Hi (Neubert 1972) 

Stepping Out (Schreiners 1964) 

Storm Center (Schreiners 1979) 

Storm Warning (Schreiners 1953) 

Storybook (Corlew 1980) 

Strange Child (Brown, A. 1974) 

Study In Black (Plough 1967) 

Sultans Palace (Schreiners 1977) 

Summer Olympics (Smith, R.G. 

1976) 

Summer Storm (Marx 1955) 

Summer Sunshine (Gibson 1972) 

Sun Fire (Hamblen 1977) 

Sun Worshiper (Hager 1972) 

Sunday Brunch (S. Stevens 1981) 

Sunday Chimes (Hamblen 1978) 

Sunday Punch (Crandall 1977) 

Sunlit Charm (Rosenfels 1964) 

Sunol (Mohr-Mitchell 1933) 

Sunrise (Cook, F. 1939) 

Sunset Blaze (Kleinsorge 1948) 

Sunset Sky (Roe 1969) 

Sunset Sonata (Hamblen 1980) 

Super Frill (Austin 1964) 

Super Indiglow (Shortman 1974) 

Superstition (Schreiners 1977) 

Susan Bliss (Bliss 1922) 

Suzette (Knowlton 1943) 

Swahili (Plough 1965) 

Swan Ballet (Muhlestein 1955) 

Swazi Princess (Schreiners 1978) 

Sweetwater (Woodside 1974) 

Swerti (collected 1612) 

Swift River (Niswonger 1974) 

Symphonette (Noyd 1969) 

Tahiti Sunrise (Ernst 1963) 

Tangerine Sky (Schreiners 1976) 

Tarn Hows (Randall 1955) 

Taste The Wine (Plough 1979) 

Tea Apron (El Dorado Gard. 1961) 

Temple Gold (Luihn 1978) 

Tenino (Plough 1978) 

Tequila Sunrise (McWhirter 1978) 

Thai Silk (Smith, C & K 1970) 

The Black Douglas (Sass, J. 1934) 

The Mad Hatter (Lyon 1951) 

The Red Douglas (Sass, J. 1937) 

Thick And Creamy (Weiler 1978) 

Think Pink (Hamner 1972) 

This I Love (Chowning 1976) 

Tiburon (Gaulter 1971) 

Tickled Pink (Tomkins 1958) 

Timmie Too (Wolff 1962) 

Tinkerbell (Douglas 1954) 

Tinted Porcelain (Brown, G. P. 

1952) 

Toast An' Honey (Kleinsorge 

1953) 

Toll Gate (Cook 1959) 

Torch Parade (Bledsoe 1979) 

Touch Of Coral (Daling 1975) 

Touch Of Sky (Schreiners 1980) 

Touch Of Spice (Plough 1973) 

Treasure Island (Kleinsorge 1937) 

Tres Elegante (Michel 1979) 

Tropical Butterfly (Carstensen 

1963) 

Trudy (Tompkins 1964) 

True Delight (Sturtevant 1924) 

Truly Yours (Fay 1949) 

Trump Card (Palmer 1977) 

Tulip Tree (Morgan 1972) 

Turkish Topaz (Austin 1962) 

Tut's Gold (Schreiners 1979) 

Ultra Shadow (Craig 1966) 

Unicorn (Austin 1954) 

Valvouche (Hamblen 1977) 

Vanity (Hager 1974) 

Vaudeville (Keppel 1969) 

Victor Herbert (Benson 1977) 

Victoria Falls (Schreiners 1977) 

Victorine (Lemon 1840) 

Villa Shimmer (Gibson 1969) 

Violet Harmony (Lowry 1952) 

Virginia Moore (Shull 1920) 

Vitafire (Schreiners 1968) 

Voodoo (Kleinsorge 1948) 

W. R. Dykes (Dykes-Orpington 

1926) 

Wabash (Williamson, M. 1936) 

Warbler (Williamson 1935) 

Warm Embrace (Dyer 1980) 

Well Endowed (Ghio 1979) 

West Coast (Knopf 1968) 

Western Spring (Luihn 1978) 

White City (Murrell 1939) 

White Goddess (Nesmith 1936) 

White Lightning (Gatty 1974) 

White Smoke (Rees 1949) 

White Unicorn (Austin 1962) 

Whole Cloth (Cook 1958) 

Whoop Em' Up (Brady 1974) 

Wild Apache (Gibson 1965) 

Wild Berry (Hamner 1978) 

William A. Setchell (Brehm 1938) 

William Mohr (Mohr 1925) 

Wine And Roses (Hall 1963) 

Winter Olympics (Brown, O. 

1963) 

Woodland Rose (Brown, O. 1970) 

Words Of Love (Williamson, B. 

1971) 

Wyomissing (Farr 1909) 

Youth Dew (Zurbrigg 1980) 

Yo-Yo (Schreiners 1978) 

Yves Lassailly (Cayeux 1928) 

Zantha (Fay 1947) 

Zipper (Sindt 1979) 

Zowie (Boushay 1980) 

Zwanenburg (Denis 1912) 

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Alcazar 

Alta California 

Aphrodite 

Black Hope 

Blue Rhythm 

Bryce Canyon 

Burnt Toffee 

Camelot Rose 

Caprice 

China Maid 

Circus Stripes 

Crimson King 

Crinkled Lilac 

Dauntless 

Dawn 

Dogrose 

Dominion 

Easter Bonnet 

Eleanor Roosevelt 

Eros 

Faustine 

Flounced Premiere 

Flutter-by 

Frank Adams 

Frosted Starlight 

Full House 

Gay Geisha 

Gingerbread Castle 

Golden Majesty 

Goldfish 

Grand Canyon 

Great Lakes 

Gypsy Baron 

Gypsy 

Harvest Splendor 

Helen Collingwood 

Henna Stitches 

Holy Smoke 

Horned Dragonfly 

Horned Skylark 

Horned Sunshine 

I. kochii 

Indian Chief 

Indian Hills 

Jean Cayeux 

King's Jester 

Klamath 

Lent A. Williamson 

Loreley 

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Madison Cooper 

Marquita 

Master Charles 

Mildred Presby Miss California 

Missouri 

Monsignor 

Mulberry Rose 

Mussolini 

Neglecta 

Orelio 

Pink Unicorn 

Prairie Sunset 

Pretty Pansy 

Quaker Lady 

Queen of May 

Rameses 

Rebellion 

Red Cloud 

Rheingauperle 

Rhythm 

Rose Unique 

Rosy Veil 

Rosy Wings 

Sable 

Sacramento 

San Francisco 

Sheriffa 

Sierra Blue 

Sindjkha 

Snow Flurry 

Staten Island 

Super Frill 

Susan Bliss 

Swerti 

The Black Douglas 

The Red Douglas 

Tinted Porcelain 

Toll Gate 

Tropical Butterfly 

True Delight 

Victorine 

W.R. Dykes 

Wabash 

White Unicorn 

Whoop 'Em Up 

William A. Setchell 

Wyomissing 

Yves Lassailly 

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The Pickle Barrel House Historic Iris Garden 

How to develop a display/conservation-of-unknowns iris garden 

by Nancy McDonald 

photos by Nancy McDonald unless otherwise noted 

Old bearded irises gone wild in Cathy’s field 

Unidentified iris – study name Austin Healey, named 

after the owner’s dog, who was named after the car 

Our town sits at the end of a 25-mile 

driveway, in the middle of blessed nowhere on 

the shore of Lake Superior. Built for the lumber 

industry in the 1880s, it was a boomtown for a 

couple of decades. When timber played out in the 

early 1900s, pretty well everyone upped and left. 

The last train went south, and railroad workers 

pulled up the tracks behind them. 

When the white settlers had come – and 

especially, I imagine, the women – they brought 

their favorite flowers with them. I suppose that 

when they left, they took some away. But you 

don’t dig a whole clump of irises when you’re 

packing your trunk, you just tuck in a toe or two, 

so they left a lot of irises behind. We find them 

now in fields, at old home sites, in the woods, in 

forgotten corners, and in gardens. 

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Trudy, my mother-in-law, always wanted 

to plant a garden full of these beautiful old 

bearded irises. She thought it would be fun to 

collect them and their stories; she always did like 

a good story. We never got around to it, and now 

she is gone. But last summer, when the chance 

came to plant such a garden, I did. 

The Pickle Barrel House, in Grand Marais, 

Michigan, is a fascinating little building that’s 

on the National Register of Historic Places. (You 

can find out more about its history at http:// 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickle_Barrel_House.) 

Now owned and operated as a museum by the 

Grand Marais Historical Society (http://historicalsociety.grandmaraismichigan.com), 

the Pickle 

Barrel House sits on a 1/8-acre corner lot, surrounded 

by a wooden rail fence, right downtown. 

A small garden of Michigan native plants 

grows behind the building. 

This summer I volunteered to work on the 

little garden there with my friend Cathy, who is 

a member of the Historical Society. One day, as 

we weeded, I told her of Trudy’s dream, and how 

the Old House Gardens catalog (www.oldhousegardens.com), 

which has just begun carrying old 

irises, had reminded me of the project. Cathy 

said, “Why not plant them here?” Why not, indeed? 

We quickly obtained permission from

The Pickle Barrel House (photo: Cathy Egerer) 

the members of the Historical Society, and plans 

began. 

When the bearded irises bloomed around 

town, I put a small article in the Grand Marais 

Gazette requesting pups of any older irises people 

might have – and did people ever respond! 

Over the next few weeks, I photographed dozens 

of irises and took measurements and notes, 

securing promises for plants later on. I asked the 

international Historic Iris Preservation Society 

(HIPS) for help in identifying the old treasures 

we found. From them I learned how to photograph 

the flowers for identification, and what 

plant parts to measure. The history of the irises, 

their provenance, is vital information, too, and 

this I carefully recorded for every iris photographed. 

Delay followed delay in the construction 

of the garden, but in the end 

we got the space prepared. The new 

garden sits on the former site of the 

warehouse for Hill’s Store, torn down 

in 1975. The soil is essentially glorified 

beach sand, plentifully larded with 

broken glass, old nails, and odd bits 

and pieces of junk. A friend came with 

his excavator and removed the sod, 

such as it was. Another kind person 

donated a dump truck load of topsoil. 

My neighbor owns a former sawmill, 

with a mountain of 30-year-old, partially 

decomposed sawdust out back. 

We shoveled one trailer load after 

another of this brown gold onto the 

garden. Two wonderful men with tillers 

ground it all in for us. 

above: The garden under construction 

below: The garden ready to plant 

left: The 

garden 

site, 

with 

Grand 

Marais 

Harbor 

in the 

background 

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Meanwhile, the friendly folks at HIPS had 

a proposal for us. Would we like to become an 

official HIPS Display Garden? All we’d need is a 

minimum of 15 positively identified, labeled, historic 

irises, in addition to however many as-yet 

unidentified irises we cared to grow. (Unidentified 

irises have no ID; therefore they are called 

“noids.”)[or "unknowns" -- Editor]. The garden 

must also be open to the public; this one certainly 

is, all the time, and it’s free. Incredibly generous 

donations from HIPS members allowed us to 

far exceed the 15-named-variety minimum. We 

bought a few others from the Tennessee nursery 

Iris City Gardens (www.iriscitygardens.com/ 

frame2.html). We’re well on our way to officialdom. 

above: The grid system 

above: Irises for Pickle Barrel garden 

In a display garden, people should be able 

to get an intimate view of the flowers. Therefore 

the large corner bed is divided by two L- 

shaped paths, each wide enough for a walker or 

a stroller. The planting beds are only 3 feet wide, 

so no iris is too far off the path to see and smell. 

Because of these narrow beds, the space allotted 

each variety is only 15″x15″, so we’ll have to stay 

right on top of dividing the irises as they grow. 

Pups, carefully labeled, will be sold at fund-raising 

events for the Historical Society. 

Mapping and labeling are vital in a 

display garden. With string and tent pegs we 

marked out a grid, so each plant could be accurately 

placed and mapped. At planting time, 

we buried a label northwest of every iris. Large 

display labels set out in the spring will be taken 

in for the winter. For noids, we’ll show the study 

name (that is, the name we’re using until we can 

identify the iris; e.g., Linnamaki Purple) and 

where the plant was found. For identified irises, 

we’ll give the cultivar name, the breeder, and the 

date of introduction. 

We’re keeping careful computer records of 

every plant, with its history, measurements, and 

digital photos. A print-out of this ever-expanding 

Reference Book will be available for use by Pickle 

Barrel House visitors. We plan a tri-fold brochure 

about the garden that visitors may have for free, 

and a larger, more detailed brochure costing a 

nominal buck or two. 

Many people around town are finding 

that “that old thing” is actually an exciting bit of 

living history, and perhaps of some value after 

all. Here we have Argie’s iris, that she found 

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elow: Linnamaki Purple – study name of an iris from 

the old Linnamaki farm 

above: Planted at last! 

more than 50 years ago down by the railroad 

tracks. below: Argie's iris 

We have the Baker Grade iris, found at the site 

of the switchman’s cabin, at the foot of the Baker 

Grade on the old railroad line (below) [looks like 

possibly 'Monsignor' (Vilmorin 1907)? -- Editor] 

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We have Judy’s grandpa John Krempa’s little 

gold iris (below) 

We have Sal’s irises, and Dick & John’s, and 

Eva Mae’s. 

below: Dick & John’s soft gold iris 

We have pale yellow irises, probably ‘Flavescens’ 

(De Candolle 1813, from the old Webb farm. 

Is that little variegata-type from the old Linnamaki 

place ‘Sans Souci’ (Van Houtte 1854) 

or ‘Honorabile’ (Lemon 1840) or something else 

again? How about the one from Abrahamson’s 

old house? Are all the tall, small-flowered, superfragrant 

lavender irises the same variety of Iris 

pallida, or are they each a little different? 

The first round of irises has been planted; a few 

await transplanting after next summer’s bloom. 

We planned space for about 130 irises, so there’s 

room for more as we find them. 

Other plants in the garden include a 

young Preston hybrid lilac ‘Minuet’, Rosa glauca, 

peonies ‘Mikado’ and ‘Chestine Goudy’, and 

my favorite historic Siberian iris, ‘Summer Sky’ 

(Mrs. Frances Cleveland 1935). A generous donor 

bought us many spring bulbs from Old House 

Gardens, and Scott Kunst, owner of that wonderful 

bulb company, very kindly donated some 

extras for us. 

Spring bulbs will give us early bloom, 

beginning with snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis), 

tiny Iris reticulata ‘Cantab’, and white Anemone 

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elow: Siberian iris ‘Summer Sky’ (Cleveland 1935) 

blanda, followed by a troupe of glorious daffodils. 

Then the bearded irises will bloom, with 

the peonies and lilac. And will the garden then 

be a restful green for the rest of the year? No, 

that won’t do at all. Even now we pore over seed 

catalogs, seeking annuals popular in the Pickle 

Barrel Era, the 1920s and 1930s. We’ve discovered 

a curious thing: although there are many lists of 

antique annual species, it’s remarkably difficult 

to find introduction dates for cultivars of those 

species. Our best resources so far have been seed 

catalogs from those decades, and great fun we’ve 

had collecting them. The next challenge will be to 

find modern sources. Many catalogs claiming to 

carry seeds of heirloom plants offer mostly modern 

cultivars of old favorites. Finding the older 

cultivars is a pleasant winter game, a fine pursuit 

for snowy days. 

[This piece originally appeared at 

www.gardeninggonewild.com/?p=10949; thanks 

to Joe Spears (former HIPS president) for suggesting 

we print it in Roots. I look forward to 

seeing more bloom photos from Nancy later!] 

A note on starting your own 

display/conservation iris garden 

Nancy's article describes very excellent 

rigorous methods of starting a conservation iris 

garden. But please don't think you must gather 

the same level of resources in order to conserve 

unknown iris! After my Da died in 1992 and I 

couldn't save the 1848 house, I dug up some of 

my late Ma's iris. The only place I had to put 

them was in 12" and 14" plastic pots on the second 

floor walkway outside my little apartment, 

so that's where they went. Since I didn't know 

anything, no one told me "bearded iris don't grow 

well in pots", and apparently the iris hadn't heard 

this either, as they did very well (you must use a 

planting mix like Supersoil, not regular garden 

dirt, which is far too heavy for use in pots unless 

you amend it with a lot of stuff)(and I had to use 

Supersoil because I had no garden dirt). 

Mapping and labeling ARE things that anyone 

can do, no matter how tiny their iris empire 

is. I numbered the plastic pots with Sharpie pens, 

and buried a copper garden tag with that pot 

number in each pot. I kept lists of who was in 

each pot, in a notebook. When I started to collect 

unknown iris from other people, I recorded 

everything they could tell me about them, which 

was often nothing! but I'd record where I got them 

from, and info such as "from backyard of a house 

where a little old lady lived, in X town". 

So far, my favorite adventure of finding 

unknowns is finding 'Sindjkha' (Sturtevant 1918) 

in the compost pile of a friend's backyard. She'd 

bought the house from an older couple, who'd 

bought from an elderly woman. She'd dug up the 

existing old iris and put them in the big city compost 

bin, planting all 'Indian Chief' (Ayres 1929), 

who I'd given her and who had gloriously multiplied, 

there; she told me this after the fact. Oy 

vey, I cried! wait, there were some neat looking 

oldies in the photos we took. Nope, too late, gone, 

she said. Well, I couldn't stand it, I took the bus 

there and upended her compost bin, and dragged 

home a bunch of rhizomes who were a bit the 

worse for wear after over a week in a closed compost 

bin. (No one would sit near me on the bus). 

And one was 'Sindjkha'! And I would've loved 

her even if we never found out she had a human- 

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given name. -- Gesine

Cook-Williamson Memorial Iris Garden, 

Part II 

How I got started researching Bluffton iris 

history 

by Jerry Oswalt, Bluffton, Indiana 

In 1958, I was a boy of 16 years of age and had 

a small flower garden behind our house in town. Just 

around the corner from our house was a large iris field. 

I saw an ad in the paper where the iris garden was going 

out of business and that you could dig your own iris for 

$1.00 a bag. I walked around the corner to the iris field 

and through a small grove of trees at the entrance to 

what years later I learned was Longfield Iris Farm. 

Standing in the shade was a beautiful lady with 

blonde hair and beautiful sparkling light blue eyes, and a 

warm smile. She handed me a large paper sack and said 

‘dig all you want. There are some real expensive ones, but 

they all have to go.’ I remember she had such a gentle 

and warm personality, I felt as if I were in the presence of 

an angel. I took the bag and headed into the field, and, 

needless to say, had the bag full in the first two rows. 

I’ve always wondered, had I ventured into this vast sea of 

color, what I might have found. 

Years later, I saw Mary, and informed her I’d 

lost most of the iris due to neglect; then twice later, she 

called me when she was dividing her iris in her garden, 

and both times gave me about 20 sacks of iris. The last 

time I was there we walked around her yard talking 

about flowers, trees, shrubs, etc. She showed me how 

to hybridize an iris. In her conversation, she mentioned 

her dad had hybridized an iris so unique, he wanted to 

patent it, but never did. She mentioned it was black. 

Her dad died in 1933 and she still had this iris in her 

garden. 

In 1987, I heard Mary’s health was failing and I 

went to see her. At 78, she was still a beautiful lady. A 

week later, Mary passed away. Mary never married, so 

two nieces came and took things pertaining to family 

from the home. 

Mary and I both volunteered at the local 

Historical Museum, and every once in a while we’d 

talk iris. Knowing the museum kept history of local 

businesses, I wanted to put something into the museum 

about the iris field and preserve its history. Still 

knowing nothing of the history of the iris field, or 

Mary’s father E.B. Williamson, or of Paul and Emma 

Cook, I went to Mary’s estate sale hoping to retrieve 

anything that would preserve the history of the iris 

field. There wasn’t very much as far as personal material, 

mostly household, books, and records. I purchased 

2 copper watering cans of Mary’s and an iron trivet 

made of two letters “M and W “ and a box of gardening 

books, one of which was her 1929 iris check list. I 

didn’t know what it was at the time. Feeling let down 

that I hadn’t found anything related to the iris field, I 

made one last bid on two cardboard boxes of table trash 

-- papers, junk mail and a few magazines, looking like 

stuff that should have been burned. I paid 50¢ each for 

these boxes and came home. I let the boxes set for 2 or 3 

days, then decided to go through them. Under the junk 

mail and magazines at the bottom of the box, I found 4 

small pages of the family genealogy Mary had worked on 

Below it, I found Mary’s typed history of the Longfield 

Iris Farm, history of Edward Bruce Williamson, and 

history of Paul Cook. 

I’m not a religious person by any means, but of 

all the people at that sale, I was the only one looking 

to preserve the iris field history, and it came home with 

me in two boxes of trash paper. I felt Mary had to be 

looking down on me that day and guided me to those 

two boxes that normally I wouldn’t have bought. I 

contacted Mary’s niece and sister about the genealogy . 

They had looked for it and couldn’t find it so I sent it to 

them and asked if they could send me family pictures or 

anything of the iris fields. Soon, I received two boxes 

of family history and clippings relating to Bruce and 

Mary, and the iris field, plus pictures and a few of the 

awards they had won with their iris. Reading this and 

Mary’s history, I learned this wasn’t just a flower garden, 

it was one of the first large scale iris businesses in the 

country; prominent iris people came from all over the 

country each year to help evaluate and select seedlings 

to be registered. As many as 70,000 iris seedlings were 

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planted one year. Iris were sent all over the world from 

Longfield Iris Farm. 

Eighteen years after receiving the Williamson 

history, I heard a niece of Emma Cook was living here 

in Bluffton Indiana. I showed her what I’d collected on 

Longfield and the Williamsons. I asked if they would 

share any history of Paul and Emma Cook. They gave 

a beautiful frame of 8 or 10 of Paul’s medals, Emma’s 

scrapbook, and a few other items. This rounded out the 

Cook-Williamson history. 

Thinking this was all being forgotten, I began 

copying [as the voice in the wilderness], and sending 

this information to the AIS and HIPS and anyone else

I thought would be interested. I soon received a big 

surprise -- the world knew about the Williamsons and 

the Cooks. There was collected history on them, as I 

found Clarence Mahan was writing a book on early 

hybridizers, and was including them. My worries were 

over, the world knew them and they weren’t going to be 

forgotten. 

Since I had a few of the iris from Mary’s yard, 

I decided to search for more and create a Memorial Iris 

Garden to keep the history alive here in Bluffton where 

it originated. Many of the older people here remember 

the iris field but almost no one remembered the history 

that took place here. Now people are excited about the 

iris returning to Bluffton, and the story behind them and 

their hybridizers. 

The Memorial Garden is a work in progress, and 

hopefully in two or three years will be a beautiful little 

garden to visit. // 

You can contact him via email at Jerry Oswalt 

, or by mail at 

Jerry Oswalt 

PO Box 131 

Bluffton, Indiana 46714 

'Decennial' (Williamson R. 1929) TB-MLa-Y9M. 

From the Royal Iris Gardens, 1933: A striking variegata 

of a new type of rounded and finished flower of firm 

substance. S. bright picric yellow; F. dahlia carmine with 

a narrow yellow margin. At the center of the falls, is an 

overdash of brilliant electric blue, a feature which makes 

this a very unusual iris. Longfield Iris farm 1930. Named 

for the 10 th anniversary of AIS. 

www.worldiris.com/public_html/Frame_pages/QFix. 

html , scroll down to see 'Decennial' photo. 

Part I was previously printed in American Iris Society 

Region 6 Newsletter, Spring 2009. 

Part II was previously printed in American Iris Society 

Region 6 Newsletter, Summer 2009. 

Jerry Oswalt sends this update in March 2010 -- 

Larry McFarren, who had worked for Mary as 

a teenager, was fighting lung cancer, the day we planted 

iris at the Memorial Garden in August 2008. He’d 

just gotten out of the hospital. I’d wanted Longfield 

workers, and family, to plant the first iris in the bed, and 

he wanted to be there for the planting. When I received 

the Ro o t s edition of the article on the garden, I went out 

to have it copied to give him the copy, but he had passed 

away that day, February 10, 2010. 

Emma Cook’s niece planted Paul’s ‘Allegiance’ 

(Cook 1958), the first iris planted in the bed. Then 

another worker, Jerry Christianson, planted Mary’s 

‘Wabash’ (M. Williamson 1936). E.B.’s grandson 

and great grandson planted ‘Lent A. Williamson’ 

(Williamson 1918) and ‘Wabash’. The grandson, David 

Wilkins, Sr., son of Jane (Williamson) Wilkins, Mary’s 

sister, planted ‘Lent A. Williamson’ which was named 

after his great grandfather, L.A.W. (E.B.’s dad). 

above: 'Sunol' (Mohr-Mitchell 1933) 

below: 'Zingara' (Williamson 1928) 

Jerry is particularly looking for four cultivars: 

‘E. B. Williamson’ (P. Cook, R. 1937) 

‘Progenitor’ (P. Cook, R. 1951) 

‘Decennial’ (E. B. Williamson 1930) 

‘Ethel Peckham’ ( E. B. Williamson 1932) 

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Call for donations -- Iris Wish List for the Reader Rock Garden, 

Calgary, Alberta, Canada 

The Reader Rock Garden is one of Calgary's most unique built cultural landscapes. This Provincial Historic Resource 

is one of a very few remaining historic gardens in western Canada. 

The garden is a tribute to one man's passion for plants and beauty. William Roland Reader was the Superintendent 

for Calgary Parks from 1913 - 1942. He actively collected plants and seeds both locally and from distant countries, 

trialing over 4000 different plant species over the years. He transformed a bare hillside into an internationally-acclaimed 

garden as he demonstrated the horticultural potential of the chinook region of Alberta to Calgary’s citizens. 

Since the re-opening of the garden in 2006, Calgary gardeners have been working to reintroduce Reader’s many 

plant collections. They are seeking the iris listed below; they have a budget of $500.00, and are also seeking donations of 

iris. If you can help, please contact Janet Jones, Gardener, City of Calgary Parks, Reader Rock Garden, at 

403.221.3578 or Janet.Jones@calgary.ca . 

Jean Richter vetted D-Z of the list, Carlos Ayento vetted A-C, and Phil Edinger and Joe Spears contributed helpful comments. 

Synonyms of names are shown in [brackets] after the listing. 

Iris germanica: 

Afterglow (Sturtevant 1917) TB 

Aika (Lemon 1848) 

Albert Victor (Barr 1885) 

Alcazar (Vilmorin 1910) 

Amas (coll. Foster 1855) 

Ambassadeur (Vilmorin 1920) 

Amber (W.R. Dykes 1924) 

Anne Leslie (Sturtevant 1918) 

Aphrodite (W.R. Dykes 1922) 

Archeveque (Vilmorin 1911) 

Argynnis (E. Williamson 1925) 

Arnols (Barr 1874) 

Asia (Yeld 1920) 

Askabadensis (coll. Van Tubergen-Dykes 1914) 

[Askabad] 

Assuerus (Lemon bef. 1859) 

Aurea (Jacques 1830) 

Autumn King (H.P. Sass 1924) 

Azure (Bliss 1918) 

Ballerine (Vilmorin 1920) 

Benbow (Bliss 1917) 

Berchta (Goos & Koenemann bef. 1909) 

Black Prince (Perry 1900) 

Blue Boy (Foster 1913) 

Bluejay (Farr 1913) 

Boismilon (Lemon 1840) 

Britannicus (Van Houtte 1864) 

Bronze Beauty (Barr 1884) 

Bruno (Bliss 1922) 

Buriensis (De Bure 1820) 

Canary (Caparne 1901) 

Canary Bird (Perry 1903) 

Candelabre (Vilmorin 1909) 

Caprice (Vilmorin 1898) 

Cardinal (Bliss 1919) 

Carthusian (J.W. Marshall abt. 1906) 

Castor (George Bunyard & Co. 1923) 

Caterina (Foster 1909) 

Cecil Minturn (Farr 1922) 

Celia (Yeld 1902) 

Charmant (Caparne 1901) 

Chester J. Hunt (Farr 1913) 

Citrea (Goos & Koenemann 1899) 

Citronella (Bliss 1922) 

Clarence Wedge (Willis E. Fryer 1919) 

Clarissa (Van Houtte 1867)[ Clarissima] 

Cluny (Vilmorin 1920) 

Colias (E.B. Williamson 1925) 

Corrida (Millet & Fils 1914) 

Cynthia (R.E. Allen 1944) 

Dalmarius (Goos & Koenemann 1907) 

Dalmatica (coll. bef. 1600) 

Darby (Dropmore 1940) 

Darius (Brown 1873) 

Dawn (Yeld 1911) 

Donna Maria (Lemon 1840) 

Dorothea (Caparne 1901) 

Drake (Bliss 1919) 

Dr. Bernice (Hooper 1867) 

Dream (Sturtevant 1918) 

Eburna (Goos & Koenemann 1899) 

Eden Philpotts (Perry 1921) 

Edouard Michel (Eugene Verdier 1904) 

Etta (Caparne 1901) 

Fairy (Kennicott 1905) 

Flavescens (De Candolle 1813) 

Florence Barr (Barr 1876) 

Florentina (coll. abt. 1500) 

Frederick (R. Wallace & Co. 1896) 

Fritjof (Goos & Koenemann 1910) 

Fro (Goos & Koenemann 1909) 

George Yeld (Perry 1923) 

Gloire de Hillegom (Krelage & Son bef. 1907) 

Glow (Sturtevant 1919) 

Gold Crest (W.R. Dykes 1914) 

Gold Imperial (Sturtevant 1924) 

Gypsy Queen (Salter bef. 1859) 

Halfdan (Goos & Koenemann 1908) 

Harmony (W.R. Dykes 1923) 

Harriet Presby (Presby 1922) 

Her Majesty (Perry 1903) 

Hiawatha (Farr 1913) 

Hochelaga (Morgan 1931) 

Honorabile (Lemon 1840) 

Hugo (Farr 1913) 

Ignacite (Salter 1859) 

Imperator (Cayeux et LeClerc 1922) 

Ingeborg (Goos & Koenemann 1908) 

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Innocenza (Lemon 1854) 

I. germanica (Linnaeus 1753) 

I. kochii (Kerner 1887) 

I. pallida (Lamarck 1789) 

Iris King (Goos & Koenemann 1907) 

Iroquois (Farr 1909) 

Isoline (Vilmorin 1904) 

Ivorine (Caparne 1901) 

Jacquesiana (Lemon 1948)[Concience] 

James Boyd (Farr 1915) 

Jeanne d’Arc (Eugene Verdier 1907) 

Jenny Lind (Van Houtte 1854) 

Jungfrau (Phipps bef. 1920) 

Juniata (Farr 1909) 

Justinian (Salter 1878) 

Kastor (Goos & Koenemann 1914) 

Kathleen (Barr 1910) 

Kharput (coll. Barr 1895) 

Lady Seymour (Van Houtte 1854) 

La Neige (Eugene Verdier 1912) 

Lavandulacea (Van Houtte 1854) 

[Agnes Sorrel] 

Lent A. Williamson (E.B. Williamson 1918) 

Le Pactole (Lemon 1848) 

Lohengrin (Goos & Koenemann 1910) 

Lord of June (Yeld 1911) 

Loreley (Goose & Koenemann abt. 1909) 

Loute (Vilmorin 1897) 

Macrantha (M. Van Waveren & Sons 1907) 

Madam X (Tharp 1932) 

Magnifica (Vilmorin 1919) 

Majestic (Bliss 1923) 

Ma Mie (Cayeux et LeClerc 1906) 

Mandraliscae (Todaro 1861) 

Maori King (Reuthe 1890) 

Marion Cran (Perry 1921) 

Marsh Marigold (Bliss 1919) 

Mary Garden (Farr 1913) 

Mary Gibson (Perry 1922) 

Massasoit (Farr 1916) 

Medrano (Vilmorin 1920) 

Mercedes (Eugene Verdier 1905) 

Mildred Presby (Farr 1923) 

Miranda (Hort 1919) 

Mithras (Goos & Koenemann 1910)

Mlle. Schwartz (Denis 1916) 

Mme. Chereau (Lemon 1844) 

Mme. Cheri (Sturtevant 1918) 

Mme. Chobaut (Denis 1916) 

Moa (Bliss 1919) 

Moliere (Vilmorin 1920) 

Monsignor (Vilmorin 1907) 

Moonstone (Cleveland 1920) 

Morning Splendor (Shull 1923) 

Mount Penn (Farr 1909) 

Mount Royal (Morgan 1929) 

Mozart (Van Houtte 1854) 

Mrs. Alan Gray (Foster 1909) 

Mrs. Horace Darwin (Foster 1888) 

Mrs. Marion Cran (Perry 1923) 

Mrs. Neubronner (Reuthe bef. 1898) 

Mrs. Reuthe (Ware 1899) 

Mrs. Smith (Willis E. Fryer 1917) 

Nancy Lea (Simpson 1925) 

Nibelungen (Goos & Koenemann 1910) 

Opera (Vilmorin 1916) 

Oriflamme (Vilmorin 1904) 

Othello (Lemon 1848) 

Pacquita (Lemon 1848) 

Pallida dalmatica (1600) 

Pallida Perfecta (Farr 1912) 

Parc de Neuilly (Eugene Verdier 1910) 

Perfection (Barr 1880) 

Pioneer (Bliss 1924) 

Prairie Gold (H.P. Sass 1926) 

Princess Beatrice (Barr 1898) 

Prinzess Viktoria Luise (Goos & Koenemann 

1910) 

Prosper Laugier (Eugene Verdier 1914) 

Purple King (Wallich 1830) 

Quaker Lady (Farr 1909) 

Queen Alexandra (Barr 1910) 

Queen Caterina (Sturtevant 1918) 

Queen of May (Salter bef. 1859) 

Red Cloud (Farr 1913) 

Regina (Barr 1876) 

Rhein Nixe (Goos & Koenemann 1910) 

Rose Unique (Farr 1910) 

Ruberrima (Barr 1875) 

Sapho (Lemon 1840) 

Seminole (Farr 1920) 

Shekinah (Sturtevant 1918) 

Shelford Chieftan (Foster 1909) 

Sherwin-Wright (Kohankie 1915) 

Sirius (Bunyard 1923) 

Souv. De Mme. Gaudichau (Millet & Fils 

1914) 

St. Clair (Lemon 1854)[Compte de St. Claire] 

Standard Bearer (Ware 1904) 

Sunset (Bliss) 

Susan Bliss (Bliss 1922) 

Sweet Lavender (Bliss 1919) 

Taj Mahal (Sturtevant 1921) 

Tamerlan (Vilmorin 1904) 

Tecumseh (Farr 1910) 

Titan (Bliss 1919) 

Tom Tit (Bliss 1919) 

Trautleib (Goos & Koenemann 1899) 

Victorine (Lemon 1840) 

Violacea Grandiflora (coll. DeBarry abt. 1856) 

Virginia Moore (Shull 1920) 

Walhalla (Goos & Koenemann 1908) 

Walneriana (Lemon 1840) 

Wedgwood (W.R. Dykes 1923) 

White Knight (Arthur Percy Sanders 1916) 

White Nymph (McKinney 1920) 

Wyomissing (Farr 1909) 

Zouave (Vilmorin 1922) 

Zua (Crawford 1914) 

Iris pumila: 

Bride (Caparne 1901) 

Eburna (Goos & Koenemann 1899) 

Floribunda (Goos & Koenemann 1910) 

Pumila Atroviolacea (Todaro 1856) 

Iris latifolia: 

Almona (Krelage 1892) 

Duke of Clarence (Van Tubergen 1914) 

Duke of York (Tegelaar Bros. Ltd. 1927) 

Grand Lilas (Perry 1910) 

King of the Blues (Barr 1898) 

Montblanc (Van Tubergen 1883) 

Prince Albert (Floricultural Cabinet and Florists 

Magazine (1842)) 

Sunset (Backhouse 1902) 

Iris latifolia hispanica: (I. xiphium) 

Blue King (Hubert 1904) 

Bronze King (Krelage 1898) 

Cajanus (General Bulb Co. 1896) 

Golden King (Barr 1898) 

King of the Whites (Krelage 1906) 

La Nuit (Barr 1908) 

L’Unique (Krelage 1906) 

Queen Wilhelmina (Van Tubergen 1909) 

Snowball (Kelway & Sons 1906) 

Iris sibirica: 

Emperor (coll. Barr 1916) 

Madawaska (Preston 1932) 

Sibirica Alba (Van Houtte 1879) 

Snow Queen (coll. Barr 1900) 

above: 'Pink Tiger' (El Dorado 1964) 

below: 'Swan Ballet' (Muhlestein 1955) 

below: 'Flounced Marvel' (Austin 1961) 

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2010 Commercial Sources Listing 

The Commercial Source Listing is in each 

issue of ROOTS and on the HIPS web site and is 

updated annually. The information is from the sources 

themselves; please contact them directly for more 

info. While HIPS will not offer listing privileges to 

any nursery known to give poor service, we cannot 

guarantee your satisfaction. 

We have a three-part process for finding 

historic iris -- 

1) Ask the Commercial Source Chair 

2) If not found that way, refer to Databank Chair 

3) If not found that way, send request to ROOTS for 

insertion in the Locator. 

Anyone desiring commercial sources of a 

particular iris for the current year should contact the 

Source Chairman by July 1, as many growers have 

a limited supply of rhizomes and may not fill orders 

received late in the season. E-mail inquiries are gladly 

accepted. If writing please include a stamped, selfaddressed 

envelope and address your request to: 

Jeff Walters, HIPS Commercial Sources Chair 

1175 Woodburn Rd. 

Spartanburg, SC 29302-3440 

iriscomsource@yahoo.com 

Argyle Acres Iris Gardens 

Joe & Donna Spears 

910 Pioneer Circle East, Argyle, TX 76226 

(940) 464-3680 

FAX: (866) 320-IRIS (toll-free) 

E-mail: irises@argyleacres.com 

Website: www.argyleacres.com 

On-line catalog. No Export. Specializing in Texashardy, 

heat & drought tolerant irises. 

Bluebird Haven Iris Garden 

Mary Hess 

6940 Fairplay Rd., Somerset, CA 95684 

(530) 620-5017 

E-mail: mhess1863@innercite.com 

Website: www.bluebirdhavenirisgarden.com 

On-line catalog now includes all; click on a letter 

to see list (some not available for sale yet); printed 

catalog extensive but less complete. Printed catalog: 

$1.00. No Export. Extensive historic iris. Large 

selection of Tall-Bearded, 1930’s-1970’s; we 

specialize in Lloyd Austin introductions. 

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Historics & Rarities 

Bruce Filardi 

P.O. Box 18124 

Portland, OR 97218-0124 

[no phone # provided by source] 

E-mail: bfilardi@comcast.net 

Website: www.internationaliris.com/contact.html 

List available as e-mail attachment or with stamped, 

self-addressed large envelope; No export at present. 

Many extremely rare varieties. Guaranteed true-toname. 

Chuck Chapman Iris 

Chuck Chapman 

R.R. #1, 8790 WR124, Guelph, ON 

CANADA N1H6H7 

(519) 856-0956 

E-mail: chuck@chapmaniris.com 

Website: www.chapmaniris.com On-line catalog. 

Catalog: US$3.00 (refundable with order). Export to 

All. Canadian Historics, including good selection of 

Preston Siberians; large Median list. 

Dowis Ranch 

Janell & Eric Denham 

P.O. Box 124, Marseilles, IL 61341 

(815) 795-5681 

E-mail: pollen@mtco.com 

Catalog upon Request. No Export. 

Historic Tall Bearded irises; Modern, Reblooming, 

and Space Age TBs 

Iris City Gardens 

Macey & Greg McCullough 

7675 Younger Creek Rd., Primm Springs, TN 38476 

(615) 799-2179 

E-mail: info@iriscitygardens.com 

Website: www.iriscitygardens.com On-line catalog. 

Catalog $3.00 (refundable with order). No Export. 

Primarily Beardless and antique & modern Bearded . 

Lakeside Gardens 

Winona Stevenson 

8280 Entrada Blvd., Lake Isabella, CA 93240 

(760) 378-3841 

E-mail: lakesideiris@aol.com 

List: $3.00 (refundable with order). No Export. 

Historic Tall Bearded irises, including all American 

Dykes Medal winners.

Newport Naturals At Spruce Corner 

Robert and Linda Karr ~ Iris and Alpaca Farm 

205 N. Craig Avenue 

Newport, WA 99156 

(509) 671-1539 (Robert) 

(509) 671-1540 (Linda) 

www.sprucecorner.com 

Newburn’s Iris Gardens 

Gene Newburn 

1415 Meadow Dale Dr., Lincoln, NE 68505 

(402) 464-7232 

E-mail: EUGMARN@aol.com 

Catalog upon request. No export. 

Beautiful Tall-bearded and Median irises, 1940 -1970. 

Ozark Iris Gardens 

Tammy & Tom Skahan 

25 Wembly Dr., Bella Vista, AR 72715 

(479) 685-5004 or (479) 685-4323 

E-mail: ozarkirisgardens@cox.net 

Website: Available this Fall with on-line catalog. 

Historic Median, Tall Bearded, and Louisiana Irises. 

Superstition Iris Gardens 

Rick Tasco & Roger Duncan 

2536 Old Highway, Dept. H9, Cathey’s Valley, 

CA 95306 

(209) 966-6277 

E-mail: randrcv@sierratel.com 

Internet Photo Album: http://community.webshots. 

com/user/rickt103 

Catalog $1.50 ($1.00 to HIPS members) 

Export to all, except New Zealand, Ukraine, & EU 

countries. A unique assortment featuring selections 

for both the beginner and advanced collector. 

Ever Seen A Historic Iris You Didn’t 

Love/Want/Need? 

HIPS Slide Shows now available as 

CDs! 

-- Robert and Linda Karr, HIPS Slide 

Co-Chairs 

The HIPS Slide Co-Chairs now have 

Slide Show Sets 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6 available in 

CD format. Each picture includes the name 

of the iris, the hybridizer, and date, thereby 

reducing reliance on the written script. 

Slide Set 2 is also available on CD, but the 

quality of the pictures is poor. If anyone 

has good photographs of the iris in Set 2 

(see list in the Fall 2009 Roots) that could 

be scanned or has slides to loan to remake 

this show, please contact the HIPS Slide Co- 

Chairs. 

CDs may be rented for $12.00 and will 

include a written script. CDs may be purchased 

for $15.00 and will include a written 

script. All HIPS Slide Show sets are being 

converted to DVD as well. 

Robert and Linda Karr, 

205 N. Craig Avenue, Newport, WA 99156; 

509.671.1540; iris@sprucecorner.com 

below: 'Truly Yours' (Fay 1949) 

Wildwood Gardens 

Will Plotner 

P.O. Box 250, Molalla, OR 97038 

(503) 829-3102 

E-mail: gardens@molalla.net 

Website: http://wildwoodgardens.net On-line catalog. 

Printed Catalog: $5.00 (refundable with order). 

Export: contact owner. Featuring Historic bearded & 

beardless irises & species. 

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2010 HIPS Historic Iris Designation 

Survey 

Background 

At the request of a HIPS member (and AIS 

board member), the HIPS board was asked to consider 

a revision of the current designation of historic iris 

as iris which were introduced 30 years ago or longer. 

It is a matter of concern to some AIS board members 

(and some HIPS members) that many recent historic 

iris are quite similar in appearance to modern iris, and 

that this may cause confusion among the public at iris 

exhibitions. There was also concern expressed at the 

fact that the HIPS 30-year designation is out of step 

with the Department of Interior historic designation 

of 50 years. After considerable discussion, and the 

formation of a separate committee to study the issue, 

the board has decided to poll the membership of HIPS 

to get their opinions on this issue. This is an important 

decision - there has been no change to the historic iris 

designation in the 20+ year existence of HIPS. We 

value your opinion as a HIPS member, and request 

that you complete the following survey on this topic. 

Procedure 

You can respond to the survey in one of three ways. 

1. You can respond in writing to Historic Iris 

Designation Committee chair Jean Richter, 1226 High 

Street, Alameda, CA 94501. 

2. You can respond via email to 

hist.designate@gmail.com 

3. You can respond to the survey on the HIPS 

web site: www.hips-roots.com 

Whichever way you choose to respond, please 

indicate your name in your response, so we can verify 

your membership in HIPS. This will also allow us to 

prevent any member from voting more than once. 

Question I: What is your opinion on changing the 

30-year rolling designation of historic iris (i.e. designating 

iris which have been introduced 30 years 

ago as historic): 

Note - the effect of changing the rolling designation to, 

say, 50 years would be as follows: no new iris would 

be designated as historic until the year 2031 (the point 

at which iris introduced in 1981 would be 50 years 

from introduction). If the designation were changed 

to 40 years, a similar “freeze” in historic designation 

would occur until 2021. 

_____ Option 3: Remove the rolling designation - no 

iris introduced beyond a certain date would be considered 

historic. This date will be: 

_____ a. 1959 _____ b. 1969 _____ c. 1979 

This would mean there would be no more iris (newer 

than the given introduction date) designated as historic. 

If you prefer this option, do you want iris introduced 

beyond this date but introduced more than 30 years 

ago to be: 

_____ a. Classified in a separate class 

(say, "Collectible"), or 

_____ b. Just be considered modern iris? 

Question II. Do you support using fixed introduction 

years to separate various eras of historic iris? 

This would enable iris of similar appearance to be 

shown as a group in iris exhibitions. Please choose as 

many or as few classifications (including none) as you 

feel are appropriate, but choose only one date for each 

classification. 

_____ Antique iris: iris introduced before 

_____ a. 1900 _____ b. 1910 _____ c. 1920 

_____ Heirloom iris: iris newer than antique iris, but 

introduced before 

_____ a. 1950 _____ b. 1960 

_____ Option 1: Do nothing - leave the 30-year rolling 

designation as is. 

_____ Option 2: Change the rolling designation to: 

_____ a. 50 years _____ b. 40 years 

_____ Contemporary historic iris: iris introduced after 

_____ a. 1949 _____ b. 1959 _____ c. 1969 

_____ d. 1979 

Thank you very much for giving us your opinion on 

this important issue! Jean Richter 

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Catalog Corner 

‘Clara Noyes’ (H.P. Sass 1930) An unusual 

new variety with colors blended much as 

in a Talisman rose. Low growing, but so distinct 

that it is entirely different from any other iris. 

Standards tan, flushed heliotrope; falls reddish 

bronze, lined deeper bronze. yellow beard and 

haft undertone of the same color. 

Decidedly popular. Should be ordered 

early, as the demand is heavy. A.M., AIS, 1932. 

Rhizomes naturally small. Mid-season. 22-inch. 

[1937 Iris - Carl Salbach] 

‘Dauntless’ (Connell 1929) The Dykes 

Medal Iris of America for 1929. A Cardinal x 

Rose Madder seedling. A plant imported in August 

1931, produced a spike three feet six inches 

tall of great sturdiness and well branched. The 

flowers are beautifully carried and are of excellent 

form with almost horizontally-held falls. 

The colour effect is red bronze. At the time of the 

award I can well understand that this Iris marked 

a very great advance in regard to both colour and 

all-round excellence, but in the light of newer 

American “reds", I would suggest that the falls 

might be more velvety in appearance, which 

would considerably brighten up the flower. Still 

we can’t “have it all ways,” and I have not yet 

seen a “red” touch it for real aristocratic bearing. 

[The Iris Year Book, 1932, The (British) Iris Society] 

‘El Capitan’ (Mohr-Mitchell 1926) One of 

the largest iris grown, supreme in its color class, 

graceful and well proportioned, this magnificent 

giant is an iris of dignity and grandeur. Striking 

for garden effect, and each of the candelabrum 

type stalks carry a large number of the immense 

blooms, giving it signal value as a cut flower. No 

garden should be without this most outstanding 

long-blooming, light violet blue iris. A sell-out 

for the past two seasons, so early ordering is 

advisable this season. H.M., AIS, 1929. Early. 

Mid-season. 38-inch. [1937 Iris - Carl Salbach] 

‘Eros’ (Mead-Reidel 1934) Considered 

the “pinkest” iris. A fine flower characterized by 

iridescent shades of near-pink with warm yellow 

haft and beard, giving a definite garden effect of 

salmon pink. Silky texture, and reported with as 

many as 12 flowers on a 42-inch stem. Color by 

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Ridgway -- “Vinaceous.” A.M., AIS, 1936. Midseason. 

36-inch. [1937 Iris - Carl Salbach] 

‘Fire Dance’ (O. Fay 1947) M. ((Elsa Sass 

x Orloff) x (sister sdlg.)). Lovely, heavily marked, 

red plicata. Would like to see seedlings from this 

and Rare Marble. H.M. ’47. [1951 Tell’s Iris Gardens] 

‘Harriet Thoreau’ (P. Cook 1944) M. 

(Sister to Dreamcastle.) Clean orchid-pink. Fine 

parent. H.M. ’45. [1951 Tell’s Iris Gardens] 

‘Indian Chief’ (Ayres 1929) M. 38”. Still 

one of the most outstanding irises in any list. S. 

pinkish red; F. velvety red; the huge flower is of 

exceptionally heavy substance and holds its color 

well. A rampant grower and prolific bloomer. 

Should be in every collection. [1936 Quality Gardens] 

Well named, for while classed as one of 

our superior reds, it carries a bronzy overcast, 

being regarded by some as a red blend. At any 

rate, Indian Chief is one of the most popular of 

the newer things, and a credit to Dr. Ayres, its 

introducer. The velvety falls are deep bloodred, 

blended with bronze, and the standards are 

considerably lighter in tone. A large flower, quite 

tall, and very well branched. [1937 Cooley’s] 

‘Jean Cayeux’ (Cayeux 1931) Beautiful 

blending of Havana or coffee brown, with golden 

glint. Considered one of the finest iris ever imported 

from France, including among its many 

laurels the W. R. Dykes medal. Mid-season. 34- 

inch. [1937 Iris - Carl Salbach] 

'Klamath' (Kleinsorge 1929). 40 in. 

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Dauntless or Desert Gold, its parents. Produced 

from a cross definitely planned for pinks, Miss 

FOR $50.00 FOR A SINGLE PLANT. In fact I California was easily the choice from among a 

paid that price for my original stock. It is just as number of pink-toned seedlings, and coming 

fine to-day as it was then and is one of the largest from two hardy parents, its own hardiness is assured. 

Growth vigorous, flowers very large, and 

and finest Irises we have. The flowers are of huge 

size, perfect form, and heavy substance, with lobelia 

violet standards and rich velvety mulberry season. 48-inch. [1937 Iris - Carl Salbach] 

of perfect form and excellent substance. Mid- 

falls, with a border the color of the standards. A ‘Paradise Pink’ (Lapham 1950) L. 33 

gift at the present low price. [1940 Rare Irises and in. This is the deepest colored of all the famous 

Peonies -- Robert Wayman] 

flamingo-pinks. A clear flamingo-pink, nicely 

‘Lady Boscawen’ (Graves 1946). E.- formed flowers and a vigorous grower. A plant 

M. (Purissima x Cloud Castle.) Large white of soon makes a clump, so thrifty is its growth and 

quality. Sister of Helen McGregor. Can’t miss profusion of bloom. Nor does it pale out and it 

as a parent for blues and whites. A.M. ’48. [1951 withstands wind and rain. A most meritorious 

Tell’s Iris Gardens] 

development. H.M., 1950. [1958 Gilbert H. Wild 

‘Marquita’ (Cayeux 1931) One of the and Son Peonies-Iris-Daylilies] 

finest French iris ever produced -- a remarkable 

‘Prospector’ (Kleinsorge 1950). M. Lovely 

flaring yellow with light area in falls which 

variety which should eventually find its way into 

the gardens of all iris lovers. 

surely harks back to its progenitor Treasure 

Overlooked in the awarding of the French Island. [1951 Tell’s Iris Gardens] 

Dykes Medal because it was so late of bloom that ‘Rainbow Room’ (J. Sass 1946) M. 34”. 

most of the judges missed it. perhaps the largest 

of all variegatas, but so distinctly different in creamy, mellow yellow, which blends into lilac 

Standards and bordering of the falls are rich, 

coloring from the average variegata that it hardly on the falls, punctuated by a blaze of metallic 

seems to belong under the same classification. blue below the yellow beard. [1958 Edenwald Gardens 

Iris and Daylilies] 

Simply huge blooms, standards of clear creamy 

yellow, frostily lustrous, and with falls of cream, ‘Rosy Veil’ (H. E. Sass 1953) M. 38”. One 

but so heavily lined rose pink that it seems more of the loveliest of iris, a cleanly marked plicata of 

like a suffusion than a lining at the end of the glistening white with delicately applied stitching 

petals. Late. 42-inch. A.M., AIS, 1936. [1937 Iris of rosy heliotrope. Fairly large flowers of graceful 

form on a well-branched stalk; this is a quality 

- Carl Salbach] 

A Spanish dance in a flower. Something iris of first rank. [1958 Edenwald Gardens Iris and 

entirely different that is so striking that it immediately 

attracts your attention. The standards are ‘Sable’ (Cook 1938) E.M. 37 in. Almost 

Daylilies] 

a very clear ivory flushed with yellow and the black, a uniform shade of deepest blue-blackviolet 

with blue beard. Has every attribute that 

falls are the same color, evenly veined with brilliant 

ruby lines. The petals are stiff and round, a fine Iris should possess -- large size, tall stalks, 

giving a very trim appearance to the flower. If thick substance; a wonderfully lustrous sheen. 

you wish to light up a spot in your garden with [1964 Gilbert H. Wild and Son Peonies-Iris-Daylilies] 

gay colors, try a clump of Marquita. over 3 feet 

"Suzette' (Knowlton 1945). M. (Seduction 

x Tiffany.) Delicately marked light yellow 

tall and a strong grower. [1939 Milliken Iris 

Gardens] 

plicata. H.M. '45. [1951 Tell’s Iris Gardens] 

‘Miss California’ (Salbach 1937). At last, 'White Smoke' (C. Rees 1950). M.-L. 

a beautiful and entirely distinct tone of pink in a (Snow Flurry x "Big Dipper".) Very large, beautifully 

formed white with blue-smoke cast. One 

fine, upstanding iris. The color, lilac pink (Tyrian 

pink to amaranth pink by Ridgway) was most of the last to fade at the end of the tall bearded 

popular and certainly marvelled at by our garden season. We think it has promise as a white and 

visitors this season. The flowers were of Dauntless 

form, but larger, and it is taller than either 

blue parent. [1951 Tell’s Iris Gardens] 

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In Retrospect . . . 

{note -- these cultivars are available in our 

2010 Rhizome Sale} 

'Santa Cruz' (Mitchell 1945) 

A striking new type variegata 

that always catches 

the visitor’s eye as it is so 

different from ordinary 

Iris. Standards clear yellow; 

falls yellow, gaily 

decorated with heavy red 

veining. Colorful and 

intriguing, as may be seen 

from my new true-to-life 

photo. EM 38”. [1950 

Rainbow Offerings, Lloyd 

Austin] 

'Sable Night' (P. Cook 1950) A rich blackviolet 

with a claret undertone. The uniformity of 

coloring, coupled with a harmonious dark brown 

beard, makes this one of the most sensational of 

all new dark Iris. The flowers are large and full 

petaled and with heavy substance and a smooth 

finish. 

(Captain Wells x Indiana Night) x ((Modoc 

x Black Wings) x Sable), HM 1952, AM 1954, 

Dykes Medal 1955. [1952 Marble Iris Gardens] 

'Demi-Deuil' (Denis 1912) We are told 

this French name means 'half-mourning' so you 

must not expect this Iris to contain bright colors. 

S. pansy-violet shaded copper; F. red-violet with 

white markings; yellow beard stippled brown. 

[1926 Descriptive List, Irises, Bonnewitz] 

'Mexicana' (Salter pre-1859) Color effect 

a brilliant light yellow, maroon veined bicolor. S. 

pinard yellow, brown dotted and reticulated on 

claw. F. velvety Hay's maroon, veined the same 

on the lavender-white outer haft, which bronzes 

toward the center. 

The edge of the narrow fall is brightly 

tinted and bronzed yellow. The plant is of moderate 

growth, and has stiff, slender, deep glaucousgreen 

foliage. The flowers are rather flat in carriage, 

with spread segments. The unusual color 

contrasts are interesting in mass. Gold Bound is 

very close to this if not identical with it. [Bearded 

iris - A Perennial Suited to All Gardens, by Austin W. 

W. Sand, Cornell Extension Bulletin 112, June, 1925] 

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From your Editor 

Thank you to the people who have 

sent me articles for Ro o t s! and to the people 

who have articles in process. It feels to me 

as if we're starting to wake up the garden 

spirits. 

I hope you will all take a few moments 

to respond to the HIPS Historic Iris Designation 

Survey on page 32 -- the HIPS board has 

been asked to consider revising the current 

definition of historic iris as "iris which were 

introduced 30 years ago or longer". This of 

course speaks to the heart of HIPS, and our 

definition of "what is a historic iris" affects 

many aspects, including conservation and 

availability. Let us hear from you! 

Thank you's go as always to Jean Richter, 

Bonnie Petheram, and Phil Edinger. 

"Imperative necessity"! Gesine Lohr 

above: 'Malibran' (Cayeux 1938) 

with mountain

In Retrospect . . . 

above: 'Santa Cruz' (Mitchell 1945) 

below: 'Demi-Deuil' (Denis 1912) 

above: 'Sable Night' (P. Cook 1950) 

below: 'Mexicana' (Salter pre-1859) 

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roots - Historic Iris Preservation Society

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