■(TB) 'Spring Prom'

1938, Hall

'Spring Prom' (David Hall, R. 1937). Sdlg. 36-06. TB. Midseason bloom. Color Class-Y4L. ('Rameses' x 'Dolly Madison') x 'W. R. Dykes'. Maple Valley(Whiting) 1938. Honorable Mention 1937.

Also listed in the following nursery catalogs: Fairmount 1946

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From Fairmount Gardens catalog, 1942: SPRING PROM (D. Hall 1938) E. M. A primrose yellow self, lightly flushed with olive around the bright yellow beard. The very large flowers with ruffled standards and broad semi-flaring falls are borne on tall widely branched stalks. H. M., A. I. S. 1937. Per. R. 87 1939. 40 in. $1.00.
From Maple Valley Gardens catalog, 1938: Introducing Spring Prom H. M., A. l. S. 1937. Rating 92. We. Are very proud to present this lovely new yellow iris from the garden of Mr. David F. Hall. To many of you it needs no introduction as it has been greatly admired by iris visitors in the originator’s garden. Mr. E G. Lapham saw its first bloom in 1936 under No. 36-6. and wrote thus highly of it in Bul. 63. p. 29 - “A grand, pale yellow, very large, tall, well branched and of splendid substance. No. 36-6 will bear watching as an outstanding star.” Mr. Bruce Maples wrote the following in the same Bulletin on p. 44: “No. 36-6 goes in with my list of best yellows. It is somewhat lighter than the deepest yellows I have seen and it is lighted up with an orange beard. The falls are flaring. The blooms are large and plentiful. The stalk branches low and three ways and it is about forty inches tall. The flowers have substance like parchment; they do not seem to wilt; they just gradually dry up while keeping their original shape. it was the hardest iris to cut in rating." The color reproduction of Spring Prom used on our cover was made from a kodachrome transparency, a natural color picture taken by Mr. Hall in his garden. (Note: see photo below)The name “Spring Prom” was suggested by Mr. and Mrs. Hall’s son, a recent graduate of Northwestern. The flower is truly suggestive of a fresh and lovely formal gown. Mrs. Fred H. Clutton, who visits the Hall gardens often. wrote the following in Bulletin 66. p. 46: “Spring Prom (36-6) is one of the beautiful yellow seedlings that bloomed for the first time in Mr. Hall's garden last year. It carries Dykes blood and its large size, but is of entirely different form; no streaks or spots and a height of forty-four inches. Light primrose yellow with deeper reticulations at the haft and very slight ruffling; it is a daintily crisp, clean colored flower. One can easily imagine a young girl going to Spring Prom in just such a dainty frock, possibly with a sash of the color of the rich orange beard. The standards arch and the falls flare, the haft is wide and the falls have a delicate picot edge of deeper yellow. Last year we measured a flower and found it to be seven and a half inches across. Four branches, beginning very low, carry nine flowers, well spaced." These comments were all sent in to the Bulletin without our knowledge and from people, with the exception of Mr. Lapham, whom we have never met. They leave us little more to tell, except that Spring Prom is positively the most vigorous. hardy and prolific iris in our whole garden. Its growth and bloom are simply amazing. It is in keeping then with our aim of bringing fine, hardy, robust irises to the middle west that we introduce Spring Prom. And it is in line with our policy of moderate prices that we offer it at $15.00.

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