Relative Biological Success of 1979 Registration cultivars.

• In 1979 there were 337 registrations of tall bearded irises
• 159 Had no descendants that were registered later (47%)

Top ten most Biologically successful cultivars for 1979

‘Sky Hooks’
316
‘Queen In Calico’
103
‘Ringo’
93
‘Paradise’
92
‘Earl Of Essex’
50
‘Catalyst’
45
‘In Love’
43
‘Love Chant’
36
‘Leda's Lover’
32
‘Amarillo’
32
‘Broadway’
25

Number indicates the number, of registered descendants showing the cultivar in their registration parentage.

‘Aah Soo’	0
‘Advance Notice’	0
‘Aku Aku’	0
‘Alabama Bound’	11
‘Alan Johnson’	0
‘Alison Penney’	0
‘All Business’	0
‘Alpine Castle’	12
‘Amarillo’	32
‘Angel Symphony’	1
‘Angel's Veil’	0
‘April Hope’	0
‘Arcadia Gold’	0
‘Arrowbrook’	0
‘Art Nouveau’	2
‘Art Of Raphael’	3
‘At Sundown’	1
‘Autumn Sonata’	0
‘Aviance’	0
‘Bachelor’	2

‘Ballet Rouge’	0
‘Banjo Man’	2
‘Bashful Bride’	0
‘Battle Star’	22
‘Beauty Pageant’	1
‘Beckon’	7
‘Bel Canto’	0
‘Benadoin Blue’	0
‘Berliner Design’	0
‘Berliner Mokka’	1
‘Berliner Zitrone’	0
‘Berlinetta’	0
‘Berry Wine’	21
‘Bill Bledsoe’	0
‘Black Jazz’	0
‘Bleeding Heart’	0
‘Bleeding Red’	1
‘Bleeding Rose Bronze’	2
‘Blonde Beauty’	0
‘Blue Ambition’	0

‘Bridal Wreath’	4
‘Bright Reflection’	1
‘Brimmed Cerise’	16
‘Brimmed Cerise Amo’	6
‘Brimmed Cerise Neglecta’	4
‘Brimmed Light Red’	4
‘Brimmed Mixup’	0
‘Brimmed Red’	5
‘Brimmed Red Amo’	5
‘Brimmed Red Neglecta’	0
‘Brimmed Satin’	5
‘Brimmed Satiny Red’	0
‘Brimmed Violet Amo’	0
‘Brimmed White Neglecta’	0
‘Brimmed Wine’	2
‘Brimmed Wine Amo’	1
‘Brimming’	0
‘Brindisi’	0
‘Broadway’	25

‘Bronze Bomber’	4
‘Bubbling Molasses’	0
‘Buckthorn’	2
‘Candlelight Dinner’	0
‘Carol Ann’	0
‘Caroline's Dream’	0
‘Casbah’	3
‘Catalyst’	45
‘Champagne Mist’	0
‘Champagne Snow’	3
‘Chanteuse’	9
‘Charro’	5
‘Charter Oak’	0
‘Cherry Sparkle’	1
‘Chestnut Beauty’	2
‘Chicago's LeRoy’	0
‘Chief Suckiag’	0
‘Child Of Fortune’	8
‘Chiloe’	0
‘China Dragon’	11

‘Cinema’	2
‘Cinnamon Kisses’	0
‘Clansman’	8
‘Clearfire’	9
‘Cloud Flight’	0
‘Color Burst’	0
‘Come Quick’	1
‘Communique’	1
‘Compare’	0
‘Confirmation’	0
‘Coral Magic’	13
‘Cosmic Lady’	0
‘Dancing Blue’	0
‘Dark Delight’	0
‘Dawn Melody’	0
‘Daylight Splendor’	8
‘Dear Hedley’	0
‘Deep Fire’	12
‘Delphi’	25
‘Desert Flame’	0

‘Desert Mist’	3
‘Dingley Dawn’	4
‘Dingley Diadem’	5
‘Disco Dancer’	0
‘Dixie Warrior’	0
‘Dove Call’	0
‘Dream Builder’	0
‘Earl Of Essex’	50
‘Edelweiss’	0
‘Edwin Langer’	0
‘Edyth Mae’	0
‘Eishauch’	0
'Enchanted World’	17
‘Erika Ekstein’	0
‘Eskimo Country’	0
‘Evasion’	0
‘Fabulous Jeannette’	2
‘Fair Flora’	0
‘Fairy Feathers’	0
‘Fashion Frolic’	1

‘Field Day’	2
‘Financier’	18
‘Flaming Banner’	0
‘Forbidden’	9
‘Fringed Lace’	11
‘Frosty Nymph’	0
‘Garnet Sport’	3
‘Gilded Edge’	0
‘Global Affair’	0
‘Go For Baroque’	0
‘Gold Burst’	6
‘Golden Garnet’	4
‘Good Morning America’	21
‘Grace Thomas’	6
‘Graham's Choice’	0
‘Grandeur’	3
‘Guiding Light’	0
‘Gypsy Magic’	1
‘Gypsy Piper’	0
‘Hamburg Romanze’	0

‘Happy Clown’	0
‘Happy Laughter’	0
‘Hawaiian Delight’	0
‘Heaven Helped’	4
‘High Meadow’	0
‘High Rise’	0
‘Highness’	34
‘Hombre’	11
‘Honey Mocha’	10
‘Image Maker’	1
‘In Love’	43
‘Indian Territory’	6
‘Ingleborough’	1
‘Intense Deep Gold’	1
‘Intense Yellow Jacket’	0
‘Ivory Plumes’	1
‘Jeanie C’	0
‘Jesse's Song’	18
‘Jeweled Starlight’	8
‘Joyful News’	4

‘Jubil Heart’	0
‘Kalimna’	0
‘Killibinbin’	0
‘King Of Diamonds’	2
‘Lady Vera’	2
‘Land Of Oz’	1
‘Last Call’	5
‘Last Dance’	1
‘Latest Style’	2
‘Latest Trend’	1
‘Latitude’	3
‘Lavender Goody Goody’	0
‘Leda's Lover’	32
‘Lemon Curls’	2
‘Lighted Within’	6
‘Lightly Seasoned’	0
‘Lilac Frost’	3
‘Lime Jade’	0
‘Logan's Run’	1

‘Longview Rose’	0
‘Lord Allbright’	0
‘Lorenzaccio De Medicis’	1
‘Loudoun Royal’	0
‘Love And Desire’	1
‘Love Chant’	36
‘Love Child’	2
‘Love Poem’	7
‘Love's Allure’	0
‘Love's Dawning’	0
‘Lovely Kay’	10
‘Magic Land’	0
‘Magic Man’	27
‘Magic Violet’	2
‘Mahogany Rush’	0
‘Maldoror’	0
‘Maria Dammer’	0
‘Marion Davies’	0
‘Marsh Light’	5
‘Mary O. Mahoney’	9

‘Master Designer’	0
‘Melon Supreme’	2
‘Metallic Blue’	1
‘Metompkin Violet’	0
‘Midway’	9
‘Mirror Image’	5
‘Miss Bond County’	0
‘Molten Brass’	0
‘Moonstruck’	2
‘Mountain Dew’	0
‘Mountain Greenery’	0
‘Mushroom Rings’	0
‘Musique’	1
‘My Gal Sal’	0
‘Mystery All’	0
‘Nature Scene’	0
‘Nautical Twilight’	0
‘No No Nannette’	0
‘Noldi’	0
‘Norbulinka’	0

‘Nuit Blanche’	0
‘Old Master’	1
‘Old West’	0
‘Olympic Gold’	0
‘Onkel Po’	1
‘Oriental Etching’	2
‘P. T. Barnum’	9
‘Pacific Mist’	12
‘Paradise’	92
‘Peach Melba’	0
‘Peculiar Gold’	0
‘Persian Smoke’	16
‘Phoenix Flash’	1
‘Pink 'N' Mint’	2
‘Pink Daydream’	0
‘Pink Pleasure’	2
‘Pink Pom Pom’	3
‘Pirate's Cove’	0
‘Planet Iris’	14
‘Playback’	0

‘Pleasure Dome’	8
‘Pleated Gown’	10
‘Plicata Whisper’	0
‘Poet’	7
‘Politics’	0
‘Prairie Diamond’	0
‘Preface’	16
‘Provocative’	2
‘Purple Breakthrough’	0
‘Purple Pique’	0
‘Purple Streaker’	7
‘Queen In Calico’	103
‘Radiant Star’	0
‘Real Gaudy’	0
‘Red Rufus’	0
‘Ringo’	93
‘Rive Gauche’	1
‘Ron’	18
‘Rose Chameleon’	1
‘Royal Casino’	0

‘Royal Jubilee’	0
‘Ruffled Queen’	1
‘Rustic Dance’	31
‘Sanderling’	2
‘Sanseverina’	1
‘Satin Stitch’	2
‘Savage Moon’	0
‘Sayonara’	2
‘Scented Opals’	0
‘Sehnsucht’	0
‘Sex Appeal’	0
‘Shaman’	11
‘Sharp And Sassy’	0
‘Sheer Magic’	1
‘Show Biz’	35
‘Siena Seventy-Eight’	0
‘Silver Years’	11
‘Sinaloa’	1
‘Singtime Springtime’	0
‘Sirius Shimmer’	0
‘Sky Hooks’	316

‘Sky Jack’	0
‘Skywriter’	0
‘Sleepy Lagoon’	0
‘Smoky Jo’	1
‘Snow Dove’	0
‘Snowy Wonderland’	10
‘Sonate D'O’	1
‘Song Of Salvation’	1
‘Southern Fiords’	0
‘Spirit Raiser’	0
‘Spoon Time’	3
‘Spreckles’	1
‘St. Louis Blues’	17
‘Stag Party’	0
‘Stand And Salute’	1
‘Star Billing’	0
‘Steady Pace’	1
‘Stolen Love’	0
‘Storm Center’	10
‘Stormy Seas’	1

‘Stylelite’	3
‘Subtle Announcement’	0
‘Sugarplum Fairy’	7
‘Summer Holidays’	11
‘Sunday Brunch’	0
‘Sunlit Waves’	0
‘Sunrise Melody’	0
‘Sunset Sonata’	10
‘Surf's Up’	1
‘Swinging Swinger’	1
‘Tangerine Sunrise’	2
‘Tarde’	5
‘Ted Shiner’	3
‘Texas Fancy’	0
‘Tim’	0
‘Timely Treasure’	1
‘Touch Up’	0
‘Trousseau Lace’	8
‘Tudor England’	1
‘Tut's Gold’	22

‘Twist Of Fate’	19
‘Vahine’	0
‘Valentine Roses’	5
‘Vanity Skirt’	2
‘Velours Rouge’	0
‘Veneer’	14
‘Veteran’	0
‘Victorian Waltz’	0
‘Violet Miracle’	28
‘Warm Embrace’	1
‘Wedding Party’	4
‘Weemalah’	0
‘Who'ee’	0
‘Wine Colored Days’	1
‘Winterbrook’	2
‘Wonder Struck’	2
‘Youth Dew’	0