Each website, FP page or blogger has his onw way to speak about irises. If you are interested in French historic irises please read this new article just published by Terry Johnson in his blog Heritage Irises.
The articles are always thorough documented.
A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even one solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it. -- Vita Sackville-West,