Welcome to our library! This repository contains valuable ASI reference material generously donated by our members. Materials here include photographs, seedling records, historical notes, and a searchable checklist. These materials provide fascinating insights from accomplished aril iris growers and hybridizers from around the world.
You can submit your own photos and documents by sending them to the webmaster at the email address, below. The present ASI board members will consider all submissions.
We are also building up our ASI Photo Archive. This is our official library of photographs, prints, slides, and digital images of arils and arilbreds. When preparing to send digital photos, it is important for digital image filenames to identify the species, variety, or seedling of the plant and or flowers photographed. Or at minimum our librarian and web volunteers need a list which associates a correct plant identity with each photo sent. Photos and identifying info may also be submitted to our photo archivist:
Cindy Rivera
20 Kennedy Dr.
Los Lunas, NM 87031
cinrivera15@gmail.com
Features
2023 illustrated checklist (~32 Mb, Adobe Acrobat file)
The official ASI checklists are provided below for your reference. Printed copies are available for $15 each from the General Secretary.
Photo Content Rules
for the Seed Exchange Seedling of the Year
Yearbook Index 1958~2002
Articles
Elm Jensen’s Regelia Photo Essay
After the Seed has Been Cut
by Lars Høpfner
Another Look at The Forced Germination of Iris Seeds
by Elm Jensen
Germinating Iris Seeds
by Norman C. Deno
Hybridizing By Observation
by James Whitely
A Review of Seed Germination Data from the Genus Iris by Rodionenko (1961)
T.R. Pray and J. Arditti
University of Southern California
Germination – A Review
Yearbook 1994 – Crosstalk – Seed Germination
Yearbook 1994 – Enhanced Germination Techniques
Hybridizing Records
Howard Shocky’s Seedling Records
This compilation would not have been possible without the records that Cindy Rivera, ASI Archivist, made readily available to us. If others have valid Shockey seedling pedigrees please share it with us so we can update this file. They may send any data to the current ASI Checklist Editor.
John Holden’s Seedling Records
Here is John Holden’s stud book with data on his seedlings from ~1965 through 1989. It was submitted by Francesca Thoolen.
CG White Breeding Records