Difference: HybridizerBensonCliff (r13 vs. r12)

["Hybridizers Medal", A.I.S. Bulletin 204 (January 1972): 47.] The Board of Directors, at the Oklahoma City meeting, voted the Hybridizers Medal to Clifford W. Benson. Among the major awards which Benson irises have won are the President's Cup in 1952, with BELLERIVE; an AM in 1961 with HENRY SHAW, which later was the first winner of the Clara B. Rees Cup for white irises; an AM on JEAN SIBELIUS in 1962; an AM on HELEN TRAUBEL in 1965; an AM on SKYWATCH in 1967, which won the Dykes Medal in 1970; and an AM on ARCTIC FURY, which also won the Clara B. Rees Cup in 1969.