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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.
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.
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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 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]
In 1937, Stevens Brothers began including bearded iris in its catalogues. Between 1936 and 1939, three of Jean's irises won awards of merit from the Royal Horticultural Society, and a fourth prompted the American iris breeder Robert Schreiner to introduce some of her cultivars into the North American market. [2]
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Iris is a flowering plant genus of 310 accepted species [1] with showy flowers.As well as being the scientific name, iris is also widely used as a common name for all Iris species, as well as some belonging to other closely related genera.