■(TB) 'Socialite'

1974, Keppel

'Socialite' (Keith Keppel, R. 1973). Seedling# 66-27A. TB, 32" (81 cm). Early bloom. White with narrow (3/8") heavily stitched edging of canterbury purple (M&P 43-K-12); beard pale blue. (('Full Circle' x 'Rococo') x sibling) X (('Happy Meeting' x 'Rococo') x ('Full Circle' x 'Rococo')). Keppel 1974.

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From AIS Bulletin #213 April 1974 Introducing SOCIALITE (Keppel) E, 32". ((Full Circle x Rococo) x sib) X ((Happy Meeting x Rococo) x (Full Circle x Rococo)). Sheer elegance, with each plicata stitch and each beard hair impeccably placed. The most precisely patterned plicata we have produced. The clean white ground carries an almost solid 3/8" stitched border of rich, bright violet (Canterbury purple). Styles are solid deep violet, beards are pale blue. Petals very broad, nicely ruffled. Three branches and terminal, about six buds. Pollen fertile. He '73. $25.00. Keith Keppel.
Four star SOCIALITE is early to appear and rarely makes a show, but the rich violet plicating, not overwhelming the snowiest of petals, is somehow so clean looking, fresh as spring. Good form, good spacing, lots of buds. [Margaret Dean, (NM), “How They Grow, New Mexico Style”, The Bulletin of the American Iris Society, No. 246 (July 1982): 13.]

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