■(TB) 'Golden Delight'

1959, Smith

'Golden Delight' (Eva Smith, R. 1959). Seedling# 58-1. TB, 36" (91 cm), Early midseason bloom. Color Class-Y1, Yellow self, orange-yellow beard. ('Mary Randall' x 'Cloudcap') x 'Mary Randall'.

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From AIS Bulletin #169, April 1963. GOLDEN DELIGHT (E. Smith 60) (Mary Randall X (Cloud Cap x Mary Randall» 36 in. Fine large golden yellow with orange-yellow beard. Dainty lace and nice ruffling on both standards and falls. Large, lacy style arms. Semi-flaring, fine form and good branching. $15.00. Smith's Iris Garden.
From Rainbow Hybridizing Gardens catalog 1964: GOLDEN DELIGHT (E.Smith '60) EM-36". A beautiful deep yellow self, with wide, deep orange beard. Falls semi-flaring, very heavy substance, almost a pebbled effect below beard. Should probably be classed with the Lacy Lovelies as it has dainty lace & ruffling on both standards & falls, & style arms are fringed. Good pollen. (Mary Randall x Cloudcap) X Mary Randall. Regularly $10.00; on $15 order $6.95; on $25 order $5.50.
"I was interested in Walter Moores article on 'The Overdoers' in the April (1980) BULLETIN. I seem to have a classical example of Problem Type A, too many bloom stalks. It is GOLDEN DELIGHT (E. Smith, 1960) a really beautiful iris, a slightly laced gold that is almost luminous. The first year that I planted it, it shot up eight bloom stalks and I was thrilled…by that fall, it had fat rhizomes sitting on top of each other so I divided it…now the divisions have increased beyond believing and the main clump is overgrown again. It has taken one whole end of the bed and swamped a very nice, mannerly ROYAL HERITAGE. I've given away so many pieces I can foresee every yard in east Tennessee with a clump of GOLDEN DELIGHT. Imagine, the iris that ate Chattanooga!" [Janice Badger, (TN), “Our Readers Write”, The Bulletin of the American Iris Society, No. 238 (July 1980): 55.]

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