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(TB) 'Lovelace'

1948, Mitchell

'Lovelace' (Sydney B. Mitchell, 1948), TB, 36", Late bloom season. Color Class W8L. Seedling plicata x seedling plicata. Tom Craig 1948.

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Image scanned by David Potembski from Tom Craig Iris and Bulb Catalog, 1948. Image originally scanned from the Huntington Archives.

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ORIGINAL CATALOG DESCRIPTION: LOVELACE (Mitchell '48)--A crisp flaring slightly ruffled plicata of exquisite form; Standards buff, softly stippled pink. Falls warm white completely edged by pink stipples. Stem 36 in. nicely branched. Stock limited. $15.00.

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From Wallace Iris Gardens 1955: LOVELACE - (Mitchell '48) 36 in. EM. (Two plics., some Sass blood.) The most charming of plicatas. A ruffled, flaring orchid-ink laced flower. $2.50.
 
From Fleur De Lis Gardens catalog 1956: LOVELACE (Mitchell 1948) M. 36 in. (From Mitchell plicata sdlgs.). Another lovely plicata, this has buff white standards with a soft pink stippling and falls of warm white with a rich stippled edge of pink that deepens at the haft. Flaring ruffled form. 1.50.

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