ORIGINATOR: Schreiner

INTRODUCED: 1964

CLASS: Tall Bearded

HEIGHT: 35"

BLOOM SEASON: Mid to Late

DESCRIPTION: S. blended copper-bronze; F. lighter, rich molten-yellow without orange.

PARENTAGE: ((Watchfire x Argus Pheasant) x Inca Chief) X Spellbound

AWARDS: HM'66

INTERESTING INFO: From its Introductory 1965 Schreiner's Iris Lover's Catalog: Here is an iris with a much higher novelty rating than our picture is able to depict. The standards are a silky, translucent coppery brown with a pronounced crepy, lacy frill at the tips. The falls are a glistening opaque yellow-gold of startling richness, atrracting attention from 30 feet away. Lacy tips of copper and ad note of harmony to the golden falls. Iris are normally lighter in the standards and deeper in the falls, but Gay Lights reverses the customary contrast with striking effect. As a garden iris the popularity of Gay Lights seems assured. A clump of this gleaming novelty seems struck by shafts of sunlight. $25.00