Speaking of non-flowerers reminds me of the adventures of a plant of OMAHA which I bought many years ago. It flowered only once in four years with me, so I gave it to a friend who had seen a flower spike and whom I had warned about its habits. He waited for a further three years—not a sign of a bloom—so he dug it up and handed it over the garden wall to his neighbor and forgot all about it until two years later when he saw a patch of bright brick red which intrigued him greatly. On asking his neighbor what it was, he was told that it was OMAHA, and he promptly begged a bit back. This has not flowered since! [Cave, N. Leslie (1943). Comments from England. American Iris Society Bulletin, 88(January 1943), 53.]