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A distillation of the authors more than 40 years experience in growing and hybridizing, this book is devoted to every aspect of these lovely, exotic irises. The author was the first to introduce tetraploidy in Siberian and Japanese irises and has bred, registered, and introduced almost 100 new Siberians.
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Copyright 1996 by Timber Press, Inc. All rights reserved
ISBN 0-88192-329-X
Printed in Hong Kong
TIMBER PRESS, INC. The Haseltine Building 133 S.W. Second Avenue, Suite 450 Portland, Oregon 97204, U.S.A.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McEwen, Currier. The Siberian Iris / Currier McEwen ; with illustrations by Jean G. Witt. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and indexes. ISBN 0-88192-329-X 1. Siberian iris. I. Title. SB413.I8M275 1996 635.93424dc20 94-14643 CIP
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To Peg Edwards, founder of the Society for Siberian Irises, and Fred W. Cassebeer and William G. McGarvey, pioneers in the development of the modern siberian irises
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Contents
Preface
ix
Chapter 1. History
1
Chapter 2. Classification
7
Chapter 3. The Species
17
Chapter 4. Characteristics of Modern Cultivars
25
Chapter 5. Culture
37
Chapter 6. Insects and Other Pests
57
Chapter 7. Diseases
71
Chapter 8. Hybridizing
81
Chapter 9. Wide-Cross Hybrids
95
Chapter 10. Seeds and Seedlings
101
Chapter 11. Judging and Awards
113
Chapter 12. Siberian Irises at Home and at Show
123
Chapter 13. Evaluation, Registration, and Introduction
131
Chapter 14. Siberian Irises around the World
135
Appendix A. Favorite Siberian Irises
151
Appendix B. Where to See Siberian Irises
154
Appendix C. Sources of Plants and Equipment
164
Appendix D. Tetraploidy: Methods and Identification
171
References
177
Glossary
185
Index of Names
197
Index of Topics
202
Color Plates Follow Page
36
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Preface
This book was written with the encouragement of the Society for Siberian Irises and the expert assistance of the consultants whose names follow. Each chapter was reviewed by three or more of those friends whose judgment I especially trusted for a particular chapter. As a result, I am confident that discussion of the various topics is as correct and complete as I can make it in the light of current knowledge. Furthermore, these advisors are widely scattered from east to west and north to south, and thus their experience provides firsthand knowledge of growing conditions in most places where readers of this book may live.
The help of all these friends is most gratefully acknowledged. Particular thanks go to Jean Witt for her superb watercolors of the species and pen-and-ink drawings. I must thank her, Anne Blanco White, Leroy Davidson, Jennifer Hewitt, and James Waddick for much information regarding the chapters on history and on the species. Judith Hollingworth and Sarah Tiffney never failed to answer the many wide-ranging questions I put to them. Robert Hollingworth was a constant source of help for the chapters on pests and diseases, and he, Ben Hager, and Martin Schafer for the chapter on culture. I leaned heavily on Anna Mae Miller, Janet Sacks, and Barbara Schmieder for details on iris shows and on the uses of siberian irises in the garden and in arrangements. Kay Nelson-Keppel and Kenneth Waite were particularly helpful regarding awards and registration. William Ackerman and Tomas Tamberg provided expert advice for the discussion of wide-cross hybrids, and Chandler Fulton and
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Donald Koza for that of gene transfer. Chandler Fulton also read the entire manuscript and offered many useful suggestions. I am indebted to the friends who generously provided slides for the color plates. The chapter on siberian irises in other countries was made possible by the information kindly provided by the many in those countries who responded to my requests for assistance.
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