At the garden of Betty and Glenn Bower, (National convention at York, Pennsylvania) an unusually pretty and obviously old iris was planted in great profusion along the foundations of the house. The iris was a variegata type with clear light yellow standards up which the purple veining crawled (a la Loreley). The velvety standards were reddish purple, somewhat blue at the center, with a distinct raised white/purple rib (like Amethyst Flame) running down from the thick gold beard. No one could even hazzard a guess as to its identity. Phil Edinger was heard to say that when one goes to a new part of the country, a whole new group of unknowns are often encountered. In Pennsylvania, he had come across a number of irises that he had never seen before and which he was hard pressed to ID.

Since this unknown came from "Farr country" it is not without the realm of possibility that the 'Bower's Unknown' could be one of the missing Farr cultivars so eagerly sought by preservationists.