■(SDB) 'Green Spot'

1951, Cook

'Green Spot' (Paul Cook, R. 1951). Seedling# 2148. SDB, 10" (25 cm), Early bloom. Color class-Y1PGcm, Very pale yellow with green spot on falls. Cook seedling# 10942 X yellow I. pumila. Longfield 1951. Honorable Mention 1951; Cook-Douglas Award 1959; Cook-Douglas Medal 1968.

NOTE: Registered as an IB ( 'Green Spot') , but now considered an SDB. This is one of the first SDBs when the class was being created.

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References:

From Rainbow Hybridizing Gardens catalog 1965: GREEN SPOT E-12". Imagine a trim pure white with horizontal falls having a half-inch patch of almost unbelievable bright medium green at end of beard. HM'51, Cook-Douglas Award '59. Regularly $1.00; on $10 order 8Oc; on $25 order 70c.
From Walter Marx Gardens catalog 1962: GREEN SPOT (P. Cook 1951) Each 1.00. Fine off-white with a half inch spot of bright green in the falls. Spreading horizontal falls. Early. 12 inches. HM 1951.
Historic Iris Preservation Society gallery link.

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