Photo Courtesy of Schreiner's Iris Lover's Catalog (1941)
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ORIGINATOR: Schreiner
INTRODUCED: 1941
CLASS: Arilbred
HEIGHT: 20"
BLOOM SEASON: Early to Mid
DESCRIPTION: S. white, finely veined lilac; style crest pinkish buff; F. light lilac pink, with silver-white center with pink and maroon dots; beards bronze-maroon.
PARENTAGE: Sylphyde X Midwest
AWARDS: None
PBF: Unknown
INTERSTING INFO: From the 1941 Schreiner's Iris Lover's Catalog: An easy-to-grow Onocyclus hybrid. About three-fourths the size of Wm. Mohr, it has more delicate dottings and markings and these colorings are on a purer white background. The standards are light blue in effect while the falls are delicately pinkish. It is larger and can be visualized as improved Some Love and for us up north it has the happy faculty of being an easy grower. The flower is daintily ruffled. It arises from a cross of the Oncocyclus hybrid Sylphyde, itself a hybrid of (Gatesii x Lortetii), crossed with the bearded variety Midwest. The flower stalk has two branches, unusual for a pogo-cyclus.
From the 1955 Lloyd Austin Rainbow Hybridizing Gardens Catalog: A winsome and delicate Onco-like flower with quaint ruffling. Standards cupped and closed, white, and finely veined in lilac. Falls light lilac pink, with silvery-white center and fine pink and maroon dots. Beard wide, Onco-like, bronze and maroon. Style crests prominent and decorative, pinkish buff. Comes from two famous Oncos, Gatesii and Loretii, crossed with each other and then with the Bearded Iris Midwest. One of the few known tetraploid Oncobreds, with 48 chromosomes. So it should cross with most modern Tall Bearded and give you intriguing progeny.
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