Introducing Solveg 
Like most iris growers, we too have been bitten by the hybridizing 
bug. The disease is chronic but not usually fatal. It’s a lot of fun and 
for the most part harmless even if slightly boring to one’s friends who 
have different hobbies ..... So, we modestly but proudly present not 
twenty-five, not twelve, not even five or six new introductions but just 
 SOLVEG—a seedling of Siegfried by Mme Louis Aureau. A good- 
sized well formed iris of clear clean lemon yellow with a pronounced 
white area on the falls and a matching lemon yellow beard with the 
last hairs just barely tipped white. The flowers look very fragile 
but the substance is good, blooms withstood three days of heat and 
wind and were the coolest looking things in the garden. We had 
wanted to call is Lemon Ice as the name described it so perfectly— 
it was tentatively so named—but the name proved to be unavailable. 
But it does describe the iris perfectly. About thirty four inches tall 
with five blooms to the stalk. Standars are full and rounded, nicely 
ruffled, falls semi-flaring. Absolutely no haft markings or vena- 
tions even in years when many other iris were badly flecked ... We 
have tried not to let parental pride run away with us on this—we 
have grown and bloomed this iris three years and have checked it 
carefully with the best of its color class that we could find. Last 
year it was planted in a square flanked by Berkeley Gold, Spun Gold 
and Ola Kala. It compared very favorably with the others in gen- 
eral quality, size, height and beauty. It grows vigorously, increases 
rapidly, seems completely hardy, and blooms generously. It is as 
good a performer as we have in our garden. We have watched its 
growth and performance for three years and feel it rates introduc. 
tion even in an over-crowded field. Our garden visitors were all 
drawn to it, iris fans and people who knew nothing about iris were 
alike enthusiastic about it. So here it is and we feel it is a great bar- 
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