ithe wlveata ete 
| Rovewag a 2 Aube: x Gr of May) à is hete-_ 
rozygous for plicata, while Dora Longdon (= Queen of May X Cor- 
_delia), which has no plicala in it, shows much less red and more | 
yellow. Red star (G. 141 (10), the pedigree of which has been | 
given in the Gardener's Chronicle, Feb. 14. 1920) though not a large : 
flower, is a real advance in colour. {t is a seedling from a series of. 
crosses in which I combined Mme Chereau, Cordelia, Queen of May | 
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and Assuerus. From the same pod of seed there came two pli-. 
_ cata outof 15 red pallida-neglecta. Susan Bliss, a very pure rose- 
pink, and Saranac, the reddest pallida form I have obtained, 
are sister seedlings with a long pedigree. 
Me Chereau X Cordelia 
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Sweet lavender X macrantha 
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L. 147 X Diadem (— Assuerus X Leonidas) 
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Susan Bliss 
Saranac. 
Several plicata appeared from the same seed pod. The pedigree 
{ of Evadne and Auburn is : | 
Assuerus X Leonidas Queen of May X Cordelia 3 
} 
Diadem —————_ & —————.__ unnamed seedling À 
Evadne { 
Auburn. 
Lastly, citronella, which is remarkable for the bright and clear | 
crimson veining of the falls, has plicata in its ancestry, both from — 
_ Mme Chereau X Jacquesiana. 
M=* Chereau X Jacquesiana Queen of May X Cordelia 
x 
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citronella. 
unnamed seedling unnamed seedting 
- Perhaps after all, the crimson Iris, when it comes, as I am sure it 
will someday, will come unexpectedly as the result of a rare brea- 
king of some linkage of factors that at present defies direct effort, and 
it will be a mutation. 
neear attainment than the crimson Iris. In 1907, I first flowered a 
plicata with a pale sulphur ground, and perhaps Mercédes is even 
older. Since then, many of the same type, — squalens-plicata, — 
have been raised, and they show that the plicata type factor does. 
not affect the yellow ground colour, the weakening or dilution of 
it in these squalens-plicata being most probably due to other and. 
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The yellow-ground plicata, is also not yet obtained, but it is a much 
