■(TB) 'Pinafore Lass'

1951, Cook

'Pinafore Lass' (Franklin Cook, R. 1950). TB, 36" (91 cm), Midseason bloom. Color Class-BV/W2, Campanula-violet and white. 'Snow Flurry' x 'White Wedgewood'. Cook 1951. Honorable Mention 1952.

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From Iris Test Garden Catalog, 1955: PINAFORE LASS. (F. Cook 1951). M. 38 inches. (Snow Flurry x White Wedgewood). A very novel iris, this is broad and heavily ruffled. The color is rich blue purple and the falls have a large splashed center of snowy white. Somewhat reminds one of a Japanese iris. H.M., 1952. $7.50.
From Schreiner's Catalog, 1952: BLUE PINAFORE (F. Cook 1951) EM. 38". Snow Flurry imparts a vivacity of style to its progeny which sets them in a class apart. Blue Pinafore inherits this debonair, insouciant ruffling plus a color effect equally unique, suggestive of the white blaze on Japanse Iris. From this glowing whiteness, like a deft water coloring, ever deepening tints of lavender-blue blend imperceptibly to the deeper scalloped margins. A meritorious new Iris from Dr. Franklin Cook, a past president of the American Iris Society. $7.50. NOTE: The Schreiner's description of this iris on page 12 is listed under the name 'Blue Pinafore' but obviously should be 'Pinafore Lass'. 'Blue Pinafore' is a spuria iris registered by Tom Craig in 1950.
From Rainbow Hybridizing catalog 1963: PINAFORE LASS (F. Cook '51) EM-38". See in color. Falls heavily gathered, pleated, so form of flower is like nothing you've seen before--but in a way it has the flatness and appeal of a Japanese Iris. Coloring carries out similarity, for white center suggests a blaze. From this glowing whiteness there are ever-deepening tints of lilac & violet out to deeper colored scalloped margins. Really novel. Rhizomes small. Fragrant. HM'52. (Snow Flurry X White Wedgewood). Regularly $2.00; on $10 order $1.45; on 25 order 1.20 .

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