■(TB) 'Pierre Menard'

1948, Faught

'Pierre Menard' (Eva Faught, R. 1946) TB. Early to midseason bloom. Color Class-B1M. Faught seedling 4E1: (('Purissima' x Faught seedling B31: ('Purissima' x 'Santa Barbara')) X Faught seedling 63E1: (Faught seedling B31 x 'Santa Clara'). Honorable Mention 1948; Award of Merit 1950. Faught 1948.

Sibling to 'Cahokia' (see Bulletin of the American Iris Society No. 229).

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From Walter Marx Gardens catalog 1955: PIERRE MENARD (Faught 1948) Each 2.50. The finest medium blue iris to date and a definite advance in the darker blues. Flowers are of massive size with broad falls, ruffled and semi-flaring. Stems are strong with 3 way branching. We predict tremendous popularity for this superb iris. 40 inches. HM AIS 1948, AM 1950.
"Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" is a short story by the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. Pierre Menard was a fictional eccentric 20th-century French writer and polymath.
Pierre Menard was a French fur trapper who became the state of Illinois' first lieutenant governor. Thanks to Keith Keppel for the info!

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