FANFARE (Barr) is a medium tall mid-blue. This is notable for its garden effect in a clump. The individual flower, while of good size, is not perhaps particularly outstanding—indeed, the falls are the slightest bit pinched—but the distant effect is striking. A mass of bright blue with a blackish sheen is the best I can do in the way of description. It calls from afar. [Cave, N. Leslie (1943). Comments from England. American Iris Society Bulletin, 88(January 1943), 51-52.]