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The founding of the AIS was prompted by the growing popularity of irises as garden plants in America, spurred in part by an award-winning exhibit of iris cultivars at the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, in part by William Rickatson Dykes' landmark 1913 book The Genus Iris, and in part by a small flood of articles in popular magazines like Country Life.
Ethel Anson (Steel) Peckham (1879–1965) was an American horticulturist and botanical artist who bred plants that grow from bulbs and rhizomes such as iris and daffodil.She was a founding member and early director of the American Iris Society (AIS), editor of its first major checklists, and author of its iris-judging rules.
Between 1917 and 1920, Grace was very active as a plant breeder, introducing numerous new hybrids and issuing a commercial catalog for the first time in 1918. Other iris experts helped in the selection of varieties for her catalog, especially the British iris breeder Arthur J. Bliss, who in 1926 would name an iris 'Grace Sturtevant' in her honor.
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's McLean Library in Philadelphia houses the Mary Helen Wingate Lloyd Collection of European and American horticultural publications from the 16th to the 20th centuries. [3] The library also holds a hand-colored lantern slide of the iris bowl garden from the 1920s or early 1930s. [4]
The Iris: A Treatise on the History, Development, and Culture of the Iris for the Amateur Gardener (New York: Orange Judd Publishing Company), 1930. Lilac Culture (New York: Orange Judd Publishing Company), 1930. Lilacs for America (Swarthmore, PA: Swarthmore College), 1943. Subtitled as: "Report of 1941 survey conducted by the Committee on ...
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When the American Iris Society was founded in 1920, Sturtevant became its first secretary and drafted the society's constitution. [6] He also served as the first editor of the American Iris Society Bulletin, a position he held for 14 years. [6] He edited the AIS's first book, The Iris: An Ideal Hardy Perennial (1947). [10]
The iris is promoted in the United Kingdom by the British Iris Society. [27] The National Collection of Arthur Bliss Irises is held in Gloucestershire. [28] The American Iris Society is the International Cultivar Registration Authority for Iris, and recognises over 30,000 registered cultivar names. [29]