■(TB) 'Color Carnival'

1949, DeForest

'Color Carnival' (Fred DeForest, R. 1949) TB 34" Midseason bloom. Color Class: R4L. Standards strawberry pink; Falls strawberry pink with purple veining near tangerine-red beard. 'Spindrift' x seedling# 6-44. Irisnoll 1949. Honorable Mention 1950.

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COLOR CARNIVAL (Deforest, 1949) Each $7.50. A startling arrangement of colors in the range of the new pinks. The ground color is a deep shade of pink in both standards and falls, with heavy markings of vivid purple on the falls. Beard is tangerine-red. Big flowers, very well formed, on excellent stalks. HM AIS, 1950. Cooley's Iris catalog 1952, p. 12.
From Schreiner's Iris Lover's catalog for 1958: "Admittedly not everyone will go for this Iris, but nine garden visitors out of ten stop an exclaim over it. A garish strawberry pink with contrasty purple veinings near the tangerine beard, it makes a highly novel clump. Novelty Iris are much in demand and this certainly qualifies as an outstanding one."
"I did not like a shell pink called Color Carnival with a row of bright purple streaks across the haft and going down the fall. This is a matter of taste, however, as a number of other people admire it". Jesse E. Wills (Tenn.), “Iris Impressions 1949,” The Bulletin of the American Iris Society, No. 115 (October 1949): 20.
"No matter how good an iris may be, if the haft is dirty or heavily striated it is slightly marred for me-with two exceptions: DeForest's Color Carnival would be just another pleasing deep pink variety without the startling violet striation which covers the haft. This sets it apart and makes it distinctive; it is one iris variety to be enjoyed as a single, well grown specimen against a green background. I should think a large clump of these stripes would be somewhat frustrating". Mrs. W. R. Matthews, “Yes-We Do Grow Tall Beardeds in Louisiana,” The Bulletin of the American Iris Society #116 (January 1950): 60.

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De Forest 1950?

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-- RolandDejoux - 2009-12-22

• My mother's favorite iris. She always dug them up and took them with her when she moved. She must have originally acquired it very early it's first introduction because they were first in her garden in Walla Walla, WA, and we moved from there in 1951. They grew beautifully in three more locations in Eastern Washington. I ordered mine online about fifteen years ago. I was so pleased to see it! They've done super well. An unbelievable number of blooms on each stalk. Probably the longest lasting of all the varieties we've planted. -- WikiGuest - 12 Jun 2022