■(TB) 'Marquita'

1931, Cayeux

'Marquita' (Ferdinand Cayeux, 1931). Sdlg. 4383. TB, 38" (96 cm), Midseason bloom, Color Class Y9L. Standards cream white deepening to light yellow at base; Falls cream white lined watermelon rose; cream beard, yellow in throat. 'Symphonie' x 'Hélios'. Award of Merit 1936. Syn: Marquitta.

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Bulletin de la Société Nationale d'Horticulture de France, 1931, 5e série, Tome IV, p. 266.
From Carl Salbach catlaog 1936: Marquita. Perhaps the largest of all variegatas, but so distinctly different in coloring from the average variegatathat it hardly seems to belong under the same classification. Simply huge blooms, standards of clear creamy yellow, frostily lustrous, and with falls of cream, but so heavily lined rose pink that it seems more like a suffusion than a lining at the end of the petals. Overlooked in the awarding of the French Dykes Medal because it was so late of bloom that most of the judges missed it. One of the finest French iris ever produced--a remarkable variety which should eventually find its way into the gardens of all iris lovers. 42-inch. $3.50.
Marquita remains queen of its type. In fact it doesn't even have a challenger. Its luminous, massive, round flowers have wide segments. The cream colored standards are without veins, whereas the falls of the same color are brushed and streaked with fine lines of old rose coloring. Who would deny that the veins in its falls are one of Marquita's many attractive features? Galyon, F. (1952). “Dark horses” of irisdom. Bulletin of the American Iris Society, 126, 22.
Marquita: (Cayeux). While the flowers are quite bunched on a tall stalk the color is so much different from others that it is quite outstanding. Standards hold together somewhat too tight. Belsley, Ray J., Varietal Comments. Bulletin of the American Iris Society 74 (July 1939), 18.
Any Cayeux creation is dependably distinctive and Marquita is no exception. This amoena type iris has crisply rounded standards of lustrous creamy ivory with falls of the same ground color veined and striped with rose pink. [Lila McCombs, “A Critical Evaluation of Older Irises”, The Bulletin of the American Iris Society, No. 110 (July 1948): 58.]
The 1939 checklist gave a color code of Y5L. The 1949 Checklist corrected to Y9L.
From Edenwald Gardens catalog, 1957: MARQUITA (Cayeux '31) L. 34". Thick, satiny, cream-white standards. Falls same, heavily veined watermelon-rose. $0.60
Dreer's 1949 catalog notes; "Marquita. 3 ft. Luminous cream standards; melon-rose falls. 60c each; 3 for $1.50; $4.75 per doz."
AIS Bulletin #38(January 1931), p. 22. States seedling number #4383.

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