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ORIGIN and NOMENCLATURE: Diverse names have been used for this class of wonderful hybrids 
f Oncos with Bearded Iris, but Clarence White's apt term ‘‘Oncobreds” is simplest and best. They 
e been called Pogocyclus, Eupogocyclus and Oncopongons. 
MOHRS: All of the large ever-increasing family of Mohrs belong in this category, as they all contain both 
Onco and Bearded blood, and are descendants of the original ‘‘William Mohr.” 
CHARACTERISTICS and USES: As compared with Tall Bearded Iris, these Oncobreds stand out as 
being highly distinctive and different. They have an amazing array of novel color patterns, some of which 
are just out of this world. Due to their Onco ancestry, many have broad rounded form surpassing even 
the newest and finest in Tall Bearded Iris. | have for years been predicting a RAINBOW OF ONCO- 
BREDS. Now this is being unveiled before your eyes. Below are the world’s most complete offerings in 
this line—not just the original purples and lavenders from a few breeders, but varieties from 24 hy- 
bridizers, distributed through 13 DISTINCT COLOR AND PATTERN CLASSES. You should have at 
least one or two in each class to really understand what the new Oncobreds can do for your garden. 
EXPRESSION OF ONCO CHARACTERS: Oncobreds vary greatly in the degree to which they exhibit 
externally the Onco that is in their genetic makeup. Some resemble true Oncos fairly closely, while in 
others there is no visible evidence of Onco characteristics. Yet the presence of an Onco in the genealogy 
should make them easier to cross with Arils, and other Oncobreds. The newer and finer Oncobreds are 
getting closer and closer to the alluring fascination of true Oncos, and are easier than Oncos to grow. 
BLOOMING TIMES: Vary greatly, from late March to early June, according to variety. 
CULTURE and HARDINESS: The great majority of these have inherited the sturdiness of the Bearded 
Iris and can easily be grown as explained for Tall Bearded on page 20. A few are strongly Onco-like and 
are better handled a little more like Arils (page 4). 
SHIPPING and PLANTING TIMES: Summer and fall, like Bearded Iris. 
ADDITIONAL VARIETIES AVAILABLE SOON: American Modern, Cerulean, Coronation Tapestry, 
Fancyworks, Icicle, Jalla Effendi, Mary Valentine, Mohr Majesty, Mt. Ararat, Parachute No. 2, Tantalizer, 
Westways. 
Strange MARBLED and MULTICOLORED Effects 
JOPPA PARROT (White 48) zx $7.00; 3 for $19.20 
Most startling, bizarre Iris in whole array of colorful Oncobreds! Mr. White has used 
Oncos to produce many strange color combinations bordering on the unbelieveable, but 
never one like Joppa Parrot. Standards fully rounded, cupped, Onco-like, light mauve, 
heavily, irregularly streaked soft mulberry. Falls rounded, strongly convex in Onco fashion, 
bronzy gold, with an intricate pattern of cinnamon-red and yellow, exploding into bold 
streaks of mulberry black. Beard also Onco-like, very broad, prominent, golden bronze. 
Superb for seekers of the unusual, and for hybridizers. One of the 3 most potent & useful 
Oncobred pollen parents known. Among its diverse offspring are exciting colorbreaks 
from chartreuse yellow to dark olive-green, veined in red. Onco-like, so be sure to provide 
good drainage, winter mulching in cold regions. Order TODAY if you want this. Rhizomes 
small. E-24”, 
KALIFA FATIMA (White '52) +++ Honorable Mention ’52 $7.50; 3 for $16.85 
The crowning triumph of Clarence White’s long and wondrous career in originating new 
Oncobreds. Kalifa Fatima is a colorful and almost unbelievable medley of gray, blue and 
purple with a pronounced, very dark Onco-like signal patch. And most important of all, 
it brings us the closet approach yet made in any Oncobred to the true and long-sought 
Onco form and flower coloring. Standards strongly arched, falls round, broad at haft in 
true Onco fashion. Beard very broad, Onco-like. Unlike many of the earlier Oncobreds, 
this is a vigorous, easy-to-grow plant, a fast increaser and is highly fertile, with abundant 
pore ee to be known as one of Mr. White’s greatest achievements. Be the first 
to have it E-24”. 
GREEN MOHR—Bewitching New Oncobred— $4.00 
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NEAR EAST (White '39) xx $1.50; 3 for $3.35 
An astonishing ruffled Iris, immediately reminding one of the curious colorings and dis- 
tinctive texture of a Persian rug. Light yellow, marbled and overlaid with maroon dots 
and fine lines. Bold dark maroon veins at haft. Odd and highly interesting. E-24”. 
Decorative VEINED Beauties 
BUTTERFLY WINGS (White 46) 4%: Honorable Mention '47 See Ektachrome. $3.00 
An Oncobred as beautiful and as captivating as the wings of a tropical butterfly, veinings 
that come from its grandparents, Susiana. | picture a whole cluster of Butterfly Wings, 
like a swarm of freshly alighted butterflies. Above, the coloring is translucent lilac blue 
—below, it is rich parchment prominently veined in mulberry, crimson and russet brown. 
The exotic charm of true Oncos, but borne on yard-high, well-branched stalks. A real ac- 
complishment for Clarence White, but this need not be trail’s end. This rare hybrid is 
fertile, may well be the best seed-setter of all Oncobreds. | have a wide array of promising 
new seedlings just coming into bloom from Butterfly Wings x Rocket, Chivalry and other 
favorites of mine. Now you try it. Out-sold all other Oncobreds in its price class. Order 
NOW. Later will be just too late. M-36”. 
MYOMY (White 47) % Pronounce it Mi-Oh-Mi for emphasis. $1.50; 3 for $3.35 
Petals white, faintly tinged pink, neatly edged with rosy helitrope stitchings, deeper 
in falls. Sharply pointed mulberry signal patch at end of yellow beard points downward 
into clear white fall. Style crests frilled and lascinated, lilac-rose. EM-24”. 
OYEZ (White '38) + Award of Merit '41 $1.25 
A jewel-like Oncobred of such exceptional fascination that it always draws a crowd. 
Imagine rounded pinkish white standards, etched with veins of dark rose; falls horizontally 
flaring, pinkish cream, strikingly and precisely veined in blackish maroon, culminating 
in a signal of the same color. Standards open, exposing the rich chestnut brown styles, in 
sharp contrast to the rest of the coloring. Order early. E-28”. 
ENCHANTED -~— Striking black signal and Onco-like beard. O 
Half Onco. Petals heavily veined in mulberry and maroon. E-32”. 
SUEZ—Combines colors of parents, Wm. Mohr and Mme. L. Aureau. 0 $1. 
Patterns of striking lining and dotting, oriental mulberry, heliotrope. Fertile. M-33”. 
GOLD, BUFF and BROWN 
GOLD SMOKE (Clarke 52) x $10.00; 3 for $19.95 
Here is the very newest addition to the Rainbow of Oncobreds. A beautiful and unusual 
coloring—a lustrous, smoky gold or gold russet with a suffusion of soft lilac below the 
broad brownish-tan beard. Large, perfectly proportioned flowers, with broad standards 
and falls. Flowers borne on tall, well-branched stalks. 34”. 
REAL GOLD (Austin '51) 44% My new Oncobred. | $9.00; 3 for $17.95 
The nearest approach to real golD color (not yellow) yet attained in Iris. Standards glisten- 
ing gold buff. Falls deep gold buff, enhanced by harmonizing soft brown veins and a 
golden bronze beard. Admired by our visitors. Has definite Onco characters and is quite 
unlike any other. Falls broad, quite flaring, up to 6” spread. A terrific increaser; you'll 
have a big clump with lots of bloom in short order. Yields good pollen. (Golden Majesty x 
Capitola) M-24”. 
EXPERT OPINION: "I like Real Gold. It is much the best of the Onco hybrids that 
I have seen and I've seen about all of them.’”—Geddes Douglas, Editor, Bulletin of Ameri- 
can Iris Society. 
$1.25; 3 for $2.25 
MOHRESQUE (Keith 50) % Honorable Mention 52 $2.50 
Here is a real knockout that has attracted a lot of attention because it is so different. Standards 
light brown, falls yellowish buff at edges, deepening to nearly chartreuse at hafts with purple 
flecking in the falls, which are wide and full as Oncobreds should be. Presumably came from 
Doxa x Zwannenburg, but is ever so much larger and taller than either of these. Will set some seed. 
Try crossing with other Oncobreds. M-40”. 
ELENA CHOOSING—A lovely medley of colors. “4 Onco. 0 $1.00; 3 for $2.25 
Glistening metallic gold and darker bronze gold and lilac. Orange beard. EM-37”. 
AZIM—A delight for every flower arranger. 1 $1.00; 3 for $2.25 
Buff cream and yellow buff, veined lilac and brown. Pollen plentiful. E-30”. 
MERMAID —A very early bronze bitone. $1.00 
Pale lavender standards, light yellow buff falls, marked maroon. VE-15". 
Bewitching CHARTREUSE Biends 
Variable and Surprising Approaches To Green 
GREEN MOHR (Muhlestein '51) «+ HC '50, HM '52 See Ektachrome at left $4.00 
The first new Wm. Mohr descendent resembling the world-renowned Lady Mohr, and carrying 
the marked chartreuse coloring still farther. A most surprising and appealing color. A silvery grey 
flushed with greenish yellow, greenest when flower first opens. Large soft lavender flush in center 
of falls. An extra large flower of full Mohr form and with very definite Onco characteristics. Buds 
strongly olive green indicating the large amount of green in the make-up of this flower. A sub- 
stantial step in the direction of real green selfs and should be crossed with Lady Mohr and the best 
of the greenish Tall Bearded varieties, notably those | list under the heading “The New Greenish 
Tones”. Will set seed and has plentiful pollen. Parentage: Wm. Mohr x Chosen. ML-40”. 
APPRAISAL: "Visitors were stopped ‘dead in their tracks’ by a magnificent display of git: 
Onco hybrids including... Green Mohr, a huge chartreuse variety.” Report in ALI. 
Bulletin, 128 on visit to Prof. Harrison’s garden in Massachusetts, 
“The increasing brigade of breeders of Onco-pogons will be doing their best to cross Green 
Mohr and Lady Mohr in a hunt for recessives!’”’ H, S. Fothergill, 1951 British Iris Year Book. 
“Everyone seemed to like Green Mohr.” Larry A. Gaulter, A.1.S. Bulletin 131, 
LADY MOHR (Salbach ’44) 4 HM '44, AM '46, Symposium '53 0 $1.00 
Unsurpassed value, for Lady Mohr is now a dollar and is very close to top of all Irisdom. Sixth 
from top of ’50 and ’51 Symposiums; 3rd in voting for ’49 Dykes Medal. Standards oystershell 
white infused lavender. Falls bewitching seafoam or chartreuse yellow. Thus she harks back to 
her great grandparent, the exotic Gatesii from Turkey. A tall giant, with 6 buds to a stem. Abun- 
dantly fertile. EM-36”. 
10 The more Mohrs you grow, the more you'll want! 
