PROMISE TO ELIZABETH (Hunt, 1984) OGB Milk-white standards over honey-yellow falls. Russet beard and V-shaped signal spot. An excellent parent for all shades of white, ivory and yellow grounds – including those with a variety of brown markings. A fully fertile halfbred from the Triploid Route that I recommend highly for beginners. This should have been easy to name, with its milk-white standards and honey-yellow falls, russet beard and V-shaped signal spot – but it turned into quite a challenge. I found name after name that seemed appropriate, yet when I checked each of them it had already been used. Finally, going back through Gene's notebook for what seemed like the thousandth time, I noticed the name "Elizabeth" penciled in the margin next to this seedling on one of his maps. The name itself had already been used, of course, and I had no way of knowing what variation he'd had in mind, but this seemed to fit and was available so I decided it must have been preordained. Martha Mia X Wiloh's White Magic.