(TB) 'Gratone'
1934, Gersdorff
'Gratone' (
Charles Gersdorff, R. 1930) TB. Early midseason bloom. Color Class B1L.
'Cecil Minturn' x
'Caroline E. Stringer'. Gersdorff, Kellogg 1934.
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‘Cecil Minturn’ X ‘Caroline E. Stringer’—50 seedlings giving many pinks, grays or gray lavenders, light blues and whites—12 were named of which only six were retained and later introduced. They are all garden types suitable for mass bedding, free and regularly in bloom year after year. Three whites which bloom in the order named, ‘White Sister’, ‘White Crepe’ and ‘Lilywhite’, a light blue ‘Quaker Maid’, a rose mallow color ‘Mallow Rose’ and ‘Gratone’, a silvery gray, scores, respectively, by one judge being 88, 87, 90, 87, 90 and 90. [Gersdorff, C. (1938). An iris breeder’s records. Bulletin of the American Iris Society, 69(April 1938), 25-26.] |
Peckham, E. (Ed.). (1940). Alphabetical iris check list: 1939, (p. 257). The American Iris Society. |
American Iris Society. (n.d.). Alphabetical iris check list 1949: compiled from the records of the Registrar, Charles E.F. Gersdorff and Assistant Registrar, Mrs. Walter Colquitt, (p. 119). The American Iris Society. |
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