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■(TB) 'Professeur Mitchell'

1931, Cayeux

'Professeur Mitchell' (Ferdinand Cayeux, 1930). TB. Midseason bloom. Color Class B7D.
Note: Also list in AB web: Professeur Mitchell.

See below:
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References

Bulletin de la Société Nationale d'Horticulture de France, 1931, 5e série, Tome IV, p. 266.
From Carl Salbach catlaog 1935: Prof. S. B. Mitchell ( Cayeux 1933 ) . A new French variety just released this season. A simply huge red-violet iris which attracted much attention in our trial bed of the newest iris. Very popular. Named for Sydney Mitchell, one of, if not the most distinguished American iris hybridists. $12.50.
 
A red-purple of good, clear, color. The flowers bunch and the falls tuck. [Douglas, Geddes (1942). More Variety Comments, 1942. American Iris Society Bulletin, 88, January 1943), 63.

Synonyms

Professeur S. B. Mitchell, as listed in Bulletin de la SNHF; Professor Mitchell; Sidney B. Mitchell; Sidney Michell; Sidney Mitchell.

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