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| Whereabouts in are you from? <a href=" http://www.warwickhughes.com/blog/?p=best-freelance-writers-websites#swan ">how to get work online</a> Bliss set about unravelling several species (I. pallida, I. amoena, I. plicata, I. neglecta and I. squalens) with the help of Dykes and used them in his meticulously recorded breeding programme in a quest to create a red iris. The red evaded him and breeders are still trying today. However, in 1917 Bliss offered 'Dominion’ for sale, a ground-breaking purple iris with rounded dark velvety falls. Laetitia Munro (writing in Roots, the journal of the Historic Iris Preservation Society), explains that Bliss crossed a rosy iris 'Cordelia’ with a purple species – I. macrantha. In 1905 two seeds were harvested, but they did not germinate until 1907. One purple two-tone iris flowered in 1909; Bliss was disappointed because he was hoping for a redder flower. In 1910, when it flowered again, it caught the eye of Bliss’s 10-year-old niece Phyllis. She admired it greatly. 'Dominion’ was the iris that would make Bliss world-famous. |