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Old 07-04-2003, 07:41 PM
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Sorority Flower question

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Old 07-04-2003, 08:56 PM
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Any wine carnation does it for us! And as for the Kappa Kappa Gamma iris, guess what? I bred their official iris 25 years ago! There's a picture of me with it in a Key from back then (MSKKG has seen it!)...the standards (upper petals) are light blue and the falls (lower petals) are royal blue.
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Old 07-04-2003, 08:58 PM
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You didn't ask about Phi Sigma Sigma's flower because we are specific that it is the American Beauty Rose (which is hard to find at florist). However this website has a great picture of what it looks like http://www.uncommongarden.com/r/americanbeauty.html if I could figure out how to put images in the thread I would have done that.

Here's information about our rose from this website (for those with old roses as your flower you may want to look there for information on it). I even bought an American Beauty Rose Bush from this site and it has already bloomed quite a few times. It's even more beautiful then I ever thought

American Beauty Rose (a.k.a. Mme. Ferdinand Jamin): A leading grower of indoor roses from the beginning of the twentieth century said that American Beauty was grown by the hundreds of thousands. "Some places," he wrote, "are given over entirely to this one variety. It brings the highest price of any cut rose, and is eagerly sought on account of its fragrance, its long stiff stem, its grandly beautiful foliage, as well as the loveliness of the bloom..." Right from its launch in 1886 the price per stem was at least two dollars, which meant that it was a rose for the rich.
Color: Quote from a 1912 catalog: An "unusual shade of carmine-crimson, with a brilliant underglow, has over it a soft violet tinge, as if a film of bluish smoke hovered over the red velvety petals


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Old 07-04-2003, 09:02 PM
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just a pink/rose colored carnation!
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Old 07-04-2003, 09:09 PM
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ADPi flower

The only color violet I have ever seen used is a purple violet. I know this is the only color of violet that my chapter used.

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Old 07-04-2003, 09:14 PM
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On the subject of Violets

ZTA's flower is the White Violet
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Old 07-04-2003, 09:40 PM
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The violets we use are the purple ones. But our colors are lavender and maroon... not having anything to do with our flower.
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Old 07-04-2003, 09:47 PM
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Adpi's flower is the woodland violet, which is a very specific violet that is almost impossible to actually find. In turn we generally use the african violet which is a violet colored violet. You can find pictures of it at the African Violet Society website.
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Old 07-04-2003, 09:55 PM
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Alpha Chi Omega's flower is the red carnation....i don't think there is a specification
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Old 07-04-2003, 09:59 PM
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For Tri Delta:
ANY color pansy...I would LOVE to say more, but alas I can't.
But any kind of pansy is fine.
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Old 07-04-2003, 10:43 PM
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Maybe I should let an AOPi at this, but isn't the offical flower the naturally thornless (Jacqueminot) rose? I remember someone telling me that the rose is thornless...
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Old 07-04-2003, 10:46 PM
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I think you listed Phi Mu's flower as the Enchantress Carnation, which it *was* -- but we switched to, I think, just any pink carnation these days. The Enchantress was far too difficult to find. If anyone has her copy of the history book, I read it there...
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Old 07-04-2003, 11:17 PM
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Maybe I should let an AOPi at this, but isn't the offical flower the naturally thornless (Jacqueminot) rose? I remember someone telling me that the rose is thornless...
Our flower is the beautiful Jacqueminot rose but alas it is not thornless. I planted one a few years ago and it does truly have LOTS of little thorns!. It is a deep red rose with a gold center. It is also said to be the grandfather of all the modern tea roses.

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Old 07-05-2003, 12:48 AM
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Our official flower is the Killarney Rose, a hybrid rose that is very difficult to find these days but was popular around the time of our founding. We usually just substitute any pale pink rose for it now.

PS Carnation, that is such an awesome story about you breeding the KKG iris! It sounds beautiful.
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Old 07-05-2003, 01:05 AM
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SDT's rose is the yellow tea rose. I plan to plant some soon. :-)
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