Quaker Lady

Bertrand Farr, 1909
Iris Class:
Bearded
Bearded Class:
Tall Bearded
Age:
1900-1919
Fall Color:
Lavender
Standard Color:
Fawn/Bronze
Pattern:
Bicolor
Beard Color:
Orange/Deep Yellow
Hybridizer:
Farr
Rarity:
Common Garden Variety
PBF:
Yes

Full Description

TB 27″ M S3L

From Cornell Extension Bulletin 112, 1925: “Color effect a smoky lavender, ageratum-blue, bronzed and blended bicolor. S. pale purplish vinaceous, of silky surface texture, bronzed thruout. F. mauvette to deeper ageratum-violet, bronzing at the edge and becoming yellow-olive on outer haft. Reticulations deep gold to olive brown.

The beard is fine, projecting, and yellow-orange, and the styles are cream-buff. The growth is vigorous, and the plant has lax, slender, deep yellow-green leaves, tinged at the base. The flowering stalks are freely produced, above medium height, well branched, and carry their numerous blooms in a fine mass. The soft, smokey lavender, blending with old gold in the fair-sized, firm-textured flowers, is very pleasing when used in mass with bright yellows. This variety is a late bloomer. Rating 84.”

(Squalens X pallida).