Dutch iris plant named Apollo

Abstract

A new variety of Dutch iris plant suitable for greenhouse culture or outdoors when the temperature and light conditions are suitable and proper for the commercial production of cut flowers, particularly distinguished by its very large blossom, unusual orange-yellow center blotch of its falls and terminating in a light yellow blotch, and its white standards. This plant is also characterized by its extremely large and robust stalk which carries its flower much better than normal varieties, the flower lasting longer than normal varieties, blooms earlier, and the buds are very tight whereby this variety may be shipped successfully over longer distances.

I claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinctive variety of iris plant substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by the distinctive colored falls having an orange-yellow blotch and light yellow body and by its white standards, by its very large flower, by its tight buds allowing for long distance shipping before the bud opens, by its fast early growing habit, its strong large upright stems, with little or no crinkling of the falls and upright standards, and by its minimum size bulbs and its capability of blooming at any specific time in controlled environment.