Emily Jean Stevens (Jean) was a world leading iris hybridiser in the 1940s and 1950s, famous for creating the "Pinnacle" iris as well as a number of other outstanding amoenas.
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“It is difficult to read. The page is dark.
Yet he knows what it is that he expects.
The page is blank or a frame without a glass
Or a glass that is empty when he looks.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)