Awards 2019

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Image Gallery of Dykes and Class Medal Winners and Runners-Up

The information include within this page and its links captures the various awards and recognition presented by the American Iris Society (AIS) for this particular year. Annual Garden Awards of AIS are the results of accredited judges’ evaluations of garden grown irises seen by the judges and voted on. The pages and linked documents summarize the results and the AIS Garden Awards thus bestowed on iris for this award year. The Awards go from the Highest award, the DYKES MEDAL, CLASS MEDALS, AWARDS OF MERIT, HONORABLE MENTIONS, and HIGH COMMENDATIONS.

Annual popularity recognitions, Convention Awards, also summarized here, are voted on by the AIS National Convention attendees having visited the convention tour gardens as part of each annual AIS National Convention.

The awards and recognitions that are summarized by the pages and documents here, and from other years, are also recorded in each iris cultivar's page.

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DYKES MEDAL

CLASS MEDALS

• • Image Gallery of Dykes and Class Medal Winners and Runners-Up
  • The 2019 AIS Awards were published in the Fall 2019 Bulletin, pages 10-16.
  • This version of the 2019 AIS Awards includes links to each of the awarded Iris in the awards list.

AWARDS OF MERIT

• Awards of Merit winners & runners up Image Gallery

HONORABLE MENTIONS

• Honorable Mentions winners & runners up Image Gallery
• The Walther Cup winners list.

HIGH COMMENDATIONS

• • The 2019 High Commendation winners published in ?.
  • The 2019 High Commendation winners with Links to each of the iris.

CONVENTION AWARDS

• The Franklin Cook Cup winners list.
• The President's Cup winners list.
• The Ben R. Hager Cup winners list.
• The Lloyd Zurbrigg-Clarence Mahan Seedling Cup winners List.
• The Gerald Richardson Award winners list. This is the First Year of Award for the Gerald Richardson Award.
• The 2019 Favorite Guest Iris with Links to each of the iris.
  • The 2019 Convention Awards winners published in the Summer 2019 Bulletin, page 2-3.
  • The 2019 Favorite Guest Iris published in the Summer 2019 Bulletin, pages 27.

EXHIBITION AWARDS

• The 2019 Nelson Award winners published in ?.
• The J. Arthur Nelson Award winners list.
• The 2019 Exhibition Report published in the Winter 2019 Bulletin Supplement, pages 1-8.
• The 2019 Exhibition Certificate winners with Links to each of the iris.

If you find errors in these linked lists please contact the AIS Encyclopedia Manager at aisencyclopedia@irises.org

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