■(TB) 'Cherub Choir'

1968, Corlew

'Cherub Choir' (Glenn Corlew, R. 1966). Seedling# 341-5A. TB, 32" (81 cm), Midseason bloom. Color Class YO4Wcm, Standards pink; falls warm white, edged pink; white beard, tangerine in throat. 'Signature' X 'One Desire'. Cherry Lane 1968. High Commendation 1967; Favorite Guest 1968; Honorable Mention 1969; Award of Merit 1971.

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From AIS Bulletin #189 April 1968 Introducing CHERUB CHOIR. $25.00. A distinctively different iris combining white and a clear, bright pink that is completely free of distracting yellow undertones. Basically white, the standards are texture veined with pink and the falls are the same shade of pink lightening to white at the center. Visible portion of the beard is white, changing to soft tangerine deep in the heart of the flower. The broad, heavily ruffled petals are lightly touched with lace. Well-branched stalks carry three buds per socket. Fertile both ways. 32". Midseason. Seedling #341-5A. SIGNATURE X ONE DESIRE. HC 1967. Cherry Lane Gardens.
CHERUB CHOIR performed nicely this year. Different: Basically white with the standards veined in the pinkest pink with the falls overlayed with the same clear pink. Good branching and bud count. Most important, it has a self-beard which is welcome after years of clashing tangerine beards on pinks. [Joe Ghio, “The Eye of the Beholder,” The Bulletin of the American Iris Society, No. 199 (October 1970): 43.]
One should never judge a flower after seeing it only one time. To illustrate the point, I was unimpressed with the pink and white blended CHERUB CHOIR the first time I saw it, because the standards were open and the branching was bunched at the top. That's the only time I've seen it looking that way, because that plant was the exception and not the rule. As lovely as its name, and it stays that way until the flower closes-never fading to white, no matter how hot the sun. [Mullin, Ron (1971). Irises I Like, American Iris Society Bulletin 204(January 1972), 12.]
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