blooming indicated, it will be named. In the orchid blends we fell hard for Tompkins’ Flamboyance 
—a big ruffled, fully formed flower with quality wriiten all over it. 
CREAMS 
This year we have added M. D. Wallace's Spic and Span to our list of introductions as worthy 
because of its quality and performance. Those mentioned last year are still good: Amandine, Desert 
Song, Snoqualmie and the bi-cream Ruffled Bouquet. We like Patricia Joyce, but it is best in warmer 
climates, or in the Pacific Norihwest. Our new Green Ivory might come here, also, and will surely 
be a good parent for this class. We would strongly recommend Snoqualmie be crossed with the 
best of the creams on the market, for it is quite a fine parent. 
PLICATAS 
The Sasses gave us our real breok in the yellow plicatas and did much to help bring this lovely 
class to the popularity it deserves. Tiffany, Orloff and Bonanza were the first of the yellow plicatas, 
and through them have come all the better American plicatas with the yellow or cream ground. 
Hall's Firecracker, Fay's Fire Dance and my own Rare Marble are good breeders—all descending 
from Tiffany and Orloff. Craig, combining some of Mitchell’s best seedlings with the Sass iris, 
China Maid and Los Angeles, has produced splendid new plicatas. DeForest has accomplished 
much with the yellow plicatas as well as the blue-and-wh'tes, even the latter come through Blue 
Shimmer—a Sass iris, and others have had success using Blue Shimmer, including Dr. Loomis, by 
the production of Castle Rock. We like Caroline Jane (a seedling of New Hope) very much. We 
have admired Aldura for its good quality, and later its seedling Blue Rim, really stunning as a 
garden subject and show specimen. Mrs. Carlston of Salt Lake has produced a lovely plicata from 
Snow Flurry x Aldura. Carl Larsen hos a host of fine things through Aldura in plicatas, one especially 
fine yellow-ground, big, wide cinnamon-marked, that will create quite a stir when ready for dis- 
tribution. Tompkins has produced some very fine plicatas, among them Starkist and Rendezvous, 
with still others to come. Henry Sass has some noteworthy new things, fully as striking gs ihe 
Oncocyclus and their derivities. Port Wine is a forerunner to these newer plicatas that are even 
more startling in their color and over-all beauty. In going over their pedigrees I was impzessed by 
the fact that Henry had used Midwest Gem, Dore, Prairie Sunset and other blends coupled with 
Minnie Colquitt, Blue Shimmer—even Flora Zenor (perhaps this is where Flora would shine—‘n a 
plicata breeding program) and Aleppo Plain. It is surprising how many times Aleppo Plain is 
found in the pedigrees of these unusual new plicutas. Personally I have taken a strong liking for 
the Pretty Pansy type and Henry Sass has several refinements in this color range. 
VARIEGATAS 
This class has been slow to improve. Staten Island is very fine and Paul Cook's Pretender will 
- set a new standard for this color, being different, quite, from the yellow and red variegatas. One 
similar to Pretender is Brenan’s new Valganza. It is likely Extravaganza will prove a fine breeder 
for this color. The blue and white amoecnas have a strong tendency to throw variegatas and if some 
are produced with smooth hafts they will find a place. 
HYBRIDS 
True hybrids are the result of crosses between two species of iris. Oncocyclus and Regelias 
have been crossed with the Tall bearded to give us an unusual race of plants. A goodly number of 
hybridizers are striving for that exotic Oncocyclus appearance in a large, tall, well branched 
variety. C. G. White has accomplished wonders along this line, yet his varieties, | om afraid, are 
so strongly Oncocyclus bred that they will be difficult to grow in some places. White has broken 
the fertility barrier and these new plants nearly all have large quantities of fertile pollen. Perhaps 
Capitola may still hold most promise for the average hybridizer unable to grow the onco-like plants 
that will be difficult in some localities. Ormohr, Elmohr, Parcchute 2 and other Wm. Mohr deriva- 
tives should still be employed, for they ordinarily produce cnly a few seeds and until we get the 
mass-production found among the more fertile pure tall bearded iris we cannot expect a great 
many outstanding seedlings. Jory’s line-bred Wm. Mohr derivatives like Moab, Hebron,’ Gaza and 
Askalon are interesting garden plants and may be good breeders. Most Capitola derivatives, how- 
ever, are not fertile of pollen, yet one must try them to be sure. Fred Crandall of Washington has 
some notable seedlings from Ormohr x Great Lakes and a few more from Purissima x Capitola— 
a cross that has been made again and again. The cross that produced Frances Craig is the same 
that gave Flurry Mohr—two quite different iris, so one never expects the same things from the 
same cross. Seedlings derived from Iris hoogiana very often have fertile pollen and nearly all will 
set some seed. Hoogie Boy has been an easy pollen parent, and I am bringing out Blue Fairy as 
its first named seedling. The hoogiana derivitives almost invariably are blessed with vigor and 
great increase, and they are usually quite disease resistant. 
DWARF BEARDED IRIS 
A new race of dwarfs are coming to the fore through the efforts of Walter Welch and the Dwarf 
Iris Club in America. The various species from over the world have been put to use in hybridizing 
programs ond new color combinations, size, form and substance are coming into being. Even the 
blood of tall bearded iris is being introduced and then the resulting ‘intermediates’ are crossed 
back to dwarfs (Pumila hybrids), giving true dwarf plants with qualities found only in tall bearded 
flowers. The surface has just been scratched so we know much will be accomplished in the years 
to come. It is most interesting to see these dwarf-like intermediates of Cooks—the blue of Fairy Flax 
and the Green of Green Spot. They, too, will be much used in breeding both to tall bearded and 
dwarts. 
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