Burleigh Mohur was registered in 1954 as a cross of Gold Mohur and Burleigh Brae. It's the only cross registered with Burleigh Brae as a parent; Gold Mohur was a spectacular parent, with almost 100 grexes to its name, many of them being important early yellow breeders. Burleigh Brae itself is 1/2 Gold Mohur, and therefore Burleigh Mohur contains includes amost 60% parents of unknown origin. It's consequently a very interesting grex. One of the parents of Gold Mohur is an early complex called Goliath AM/RHS (1913), which passed from W.R. Lee to G.F. Moore in the late 19-teens. Goliath made Gold Mohur in 1925, Gold Mohur made Burleigh Brae in 1938 (by Armstrong and Brown), and backcrossed to Gold Mohur made Burleigh Mohur in 1946.
At the time, in the US in Wellesley, Massachusetts was a company called the L. Sherman Adams Co., which was interested in making paphs. L. Sherman Adam's wife Helen was instrumental in the early history of the AOS, and many credit her with two very important "creations". The first was the creation of the first AOS Handbook on Judging, and with it the inception of the AOS judging system. The second was the revelation that paphs need a complex carbohydrate source to initiate germination; she was the first to use coconut milk in paph agar for germination.
L. Sherman Adams brought in alot of the early English breeder paphs to the US before anybody else. The cross of Burleigh Brae, from the stud houses of Armstrong and Brown and its parent Gold Mohur, from the esteemed collection of H.G. Moore, was registered by Sherman Adams in 1946. Two clones were awarded, 'No. M', with an FCC in 1947 and 'No. 2', with an AM in 1954. 'No. M' is most interesting because it is white. I cannot for the life of me explain why it is white, as nothing in the parentage of it seems like it could possibly account for white. But there it is...
Burleigh Mohur 'No. 2' was destined for great things, crossing the country to end up in the paph collection at McClellans. It is the parent, along with F.C. Puddle 'Bodnant' of Paph. Freckles, registered in 1968, which went on to produce Via Ojai, arguably the finest American white until White Knight was registered in the late 1980s. There are almost 50 awarded clones of Freckles, and a dozen awarded Via Ojai.
In addition, 'No. 2' made Harbur, Van Ness and Deadwood Trail (which made Anja, then Lippewunder), and all the plants that came from that group for McClellans. Talk about a touchstone of breeding - here we are almost 70 years later still looking at the chocolate dorsal of Burleigh Mohur in the finest yellow of our age in Lippewunder.
So here it is then, quite possibly the first time pictured in color online anywhere...Paph. Burleigh Mohur 'No. 2' AM/AOS
At the time, in the US in Wellesley, Massachusetts was a company called the L. Sherman Adams Co., which was interested in making paphs. L. Sherman Adam's wife Helen was instrumental in the early history of the AOS, and many credit her with two very important "creations". The first was the creation of the first AOS Handbook on Judging, and with it the inception of the AOS judging system. The second was the revelation that paphs need a complex carbohydrate source to initiate germination; she was the first to use coconut milk in paph agar for germination.
L. Sherman Adams brought in alot of the early English breeder paphs to the US before anybody else. The cross of Burleigh Brae, from the stud houses of Armstrong and Brown and its parent Gold Mohur, from the esteemed collection of H.G. Moore, was registered by Sherman Adams in 1946. Two clones were awarded, 'No. M', with an FCC in 1947 and 'No. 2', with an AM in 1954. 'No. M' is most interesting because it is white. I cannot for the life of me explain why it is white, as nothing in the parentage of it seems like it could possibly account for white. But there it is...
Burleigh Mohur 'No. 2' was destined for great things, crossing the country to end up in the paph collection at McClellans. It is the parent, along with F.C. Puddle 'Bodnant' of Paph. Freckles, registered in 1968, which went on to produce Via Ojai, arguably the finest American white until White Knight was registered in the late 1980s. There are almost 50 awarded clones of Freckles, and a dozen awarded Via Ojai.
In addition, 'No. 2' made Harbur, Van Ness and Deadwood Trail (which made Anja, then Lippewunder), and all the plants that came from that group for McClellans. Talk about a touchstone of breeding - here we are almost 70 years later still looking at the chocolate dorsal of Burleigh Mohur in the finest yellow of our age in Lippewunder.
So here it is then, quite possibly the first time pictured in color online anywhere...Paph. Burleigh Mohur 'No. 2' AM/AOS