Goos & Koenemann (D)  1899-1951

Max Joseph Goos (1858-1917)
August Koenemann (1848-1910)
Hermann Goos ( -1933)
Friedrich Bücher Leader ( -1951) 

Max Joseph Goos and August Koenemann, German Iris breeders, have been breeding and marketing 94 new Irises between 1899 and 1938. That makes them two of the most famous breeders of perennials (Iris, Peonies, Clematis as well as many fruit trees). Many of these are still displayed in gardens and collections around the world. You’ll find More info at the link on the page below.
I’d like to introduce these two breeders as an example for the ‚Netzwerk Planzensamlungen’. Personally I know of 5 collections, which contain Iris hybrids of Goos and Koenemann. I suggest that these are contacted if you are interested to exchange plants.

The list following shows that unfortunately there are still a lot of Irises of which we don’t know the whereabouts. In the worst case that might mean, that they no longer exist.  

If you have one of the missing ones I have a big favour to ask: Please contact me to exchange plants. If you have just pictures of missing ones, pls. let us know too, so we can identify those better and add pics to the list. Pls. contact:  info@irisparadise.com
   
  Collections

Name

 Class Year BI F M B Pr

Aareshorst

 TB 1927 X X X X  

Aegir

 TB 1927 X X X X X

Alfhem

 TB 1926 X X X X  

Argentea

 TB 1906 X X   X  

Asa

 TB 1927 X X X X X

Asmund

 TB 1931 X X X    

Aurea

 MDB 1920   X X   X

Balder

 TB 1924 X X X X X

Bele

 TB 1926 X X X X X

Berchta

 TB 1910 X        

Brising

 TB 1930 X X      

Bronzeschild

 IB 1927 X X X   X

Citrea

 SDB 1899          

Compacta

 MDB 1906          

Contraste

 TB 1909          

Cyanea

 MDB 1901 X X   X  

Dalmarius

 TB 1907          

Eburna

 SDB 1899          

Eckesachs

 TB 1920 X X   X  

Eppo

 TB 1926 X X   X  

Erek

 TB 1926          

Espada

 TB 1938 X X X X X

Excelsa

 SDB 1899          

Fatum

 TB 1928 X X   X  

Flammenschwert

 TB 1920 X X   X X

Floribunda

 SDB 1910       X  

Florida

 SDB 1898          

Folkwang

 TB 1924 X X X   X

Formosa

 SDB 1898          

Forsete

 TB 1924 X X X X X

Fritjof

 IB 1910 X X X    

Fro

 TB 1909 X X X    

Fuerstin Lonyay

 TB 1921          

Fylla

 IB 1931          

Gajus

 BB 1906 X X X   X

Gandvik

 TB 1927 X X X   X

Gerda

 IB 1910       X  

Goldvliess

 IB 1931 X X X X  

Halfdan

 IB 1908       X  

Havamal

 TB 1927 X X X    

Hawannah

 IB 1927          

Heimdall

 TB 1937          

Helge

 IB 1914 X X X X  

Iduna

 IB 1926 X X X X X

Ilsan

 TB 1920 X X X    

Indra

 TB 1928          

Ingeborg

 IB 1908 X X X X  

Iriskoenig

 TB 1907 X X X X X

Ivald

 TB 1931 X   X     

Iwein

 TB 1926 X X     X

Kastor

 TB 1914 X X X X X

Lenzschnee

 TB 1927 X X   X X

Lohengrin

 TB 1910 X X X X X

Loreley

 BB 1909 X X X X X

Macharia

 TB 1938 X X X X  

Mars

 IB 1909          

Mimung

 TB 1911          

Mithras

 TB 1910          

Nibelungen

 TB 1910 X X X X X

Normandy   ???

   1931          

Norraena

 TB 1930 X X X X  

Nothung

 TB 1913 X X X   X

Ochroleuca Gigantea Sulphurea

 JI ? 1906          

Odenvogel

 TB 1927 X X X X  

Orchis

 SDB 1927          

Pfauenauge

 IB 1906 X X X X  

Pfauenfeder

 IB 1928 X   X    

Pollux

 TB 1914 X     X  

Prinzess Victoria Luise

 TB 1910 X X   X  

Rheinelfe

 TB 1924 X X X X  

Rheinfels

 TB 1928 X X   X X

Rheingauperle

 TB 1924 X X X   X

Rheinnixe

 TB 1910 X X   X X

Rheinsage

 TB 1931 X X   X  

Rheintochter

 TB 1928 X X X X X

Rheintraube

 TB 1920 X X X X X

Rota

 IB 1926 X X   X X

Runstein

 TB 1927 X X X    

Schneekuppe

 MDB 1910 X     X  

Schwanhild

 IB 1921 X X   X  

Spatha

 TB 1938 X X X   X

Strandperle

 SIB 1926 X        

Sulphur

 SDB 1928          

Thora

 IB 1910 X        

Thorsten

 TB 1928 X X X X X

Thrudwang

 TB 1926 X X X   X

Titurel

 TB 1926 X X X X X

Trautlieb

 IB 1901          

Tyr

 TB 1935 X X   X X

Vingolf

 IB 1924 X X   X X

Viola

 TB 1909          

Walhalla

 IB 1918 X X X X  

Waruna

 TB 1935 X X X X X

Xiphos 

 TB 1935 X X      
   
   present in
 known collection		  Existence
 not verified		  Existence
 unknown

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Note to the iris Berchta and Thora: 
Both iris are not verified. According to recent impressions and compare I'm currently assuming that indeed the iris on the images shown Berchta and Torah - however should the name assignment be changed, so Berchta = Torah and vice versa.

Note to Strandperle:
This is an iris sibirca. This was my knowledge to be lost. I found it in the offer from Château de Vullierens. If it is real Strandperle, and G&K didn't breeding with sibiricas, it maybe an I. sibirica, growing wild in the Rhineland.
Addition: also an other dealer in switzerland does offer Rheinperle.

Note to Fuerstin Lonyay:
I don't find this iris in a collection but in a privat garden in Cologne. It fully complies with the original description of the variety and since I have been able to assign any other breeding, I go out of the authenticity.

  
Note to the breedings of G&K
The knowledge of the varieties of G & K mainly comes from the few available sales catalogs of G&K and the registration book of the AIS in 1939.

In its sales catalogs their own varieties are clearly marked. The content of the registration book 1939 almost exclusively information was gathered from sales catalogs, books, magazines and verbal transmitted knowledge. Since different breeders and dealers also have different kinds of flowers description, and in the AIS book 1939 only color codes were used was so very quickly from a two-tone red sometimes even a yellow iris.

So come, with very high probability, the varieties of Mars actually from Caparne, also Aurea breeded by Lemon and were only performed by G & K in its sales program. Due to the different description, they were considered as separate breedings and entered into the 1939 book as breeding of G&K, but later cleared.

 

23.09.2012

 

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