Re: Advice needed
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  • Subject: Re: Advice needed
  • From: A*@aol.com
  • Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 21:27:06 -0400 (EDT)
Definitely.  But not the cultivar. 
 
In a message dated 7/30/2011 7:10:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
dp2413@comcast.net writes:

Cornus florida on the NY Protected Plant List?

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Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2011 5:22 PM
Subject: [CHAT] Advice needed


> If there's still anyone out there, please give me some words of advice on 
> a
> problem I have.
> In the Horticulture School series I have been running for years, I always
> include a segment on the New York State Protected Plant List. The state
> list is quite lengthy, but the Federated Garden Clubs of New York State
> (FGCNYS) have prepared a selected list of those plants that might just
> appear in flower shows - a one-page list that is easy to tuck into your
> Handbook.  It is considered that the rest of the state list are either 
> wild
> flowers that wouldn't be suitable, or are so rare that they would never
> be seen.  The FGCNYS policy reads:
> Plants named on the New York State list, "Protected Native Plants,"
> cannot be exhibited in competitive classes, except in Special Exhibits
> Division as an Educational Exhibit.  Such plants must have been
> acquired in a lawful manner, and may be cut specimens and/or
> container-grown plants.
> Commercially developed hybrids or cultivars (NOT NATURAL VARIETIES)
> of plants on the NY list are permitted in competitive classes, but ONLY
> when the DISTINGUISHING FEATURE is evident.
>
> I helped write this policy more than 20 years ago, and have been trying to
> teach it in the Horticulture Schools ever since.  This year there have
> already
> been three schools, and three more are scheduled.  As State Chairman, I
> write
> the exams for the schools.  On each exam I include one question on the
> Protected Plant List.  Many times the question reads:
>
> .  May a branch of Cornus florida bCherokee Chiefb be exhibited in a
> flower show            in a class of flowering branches.  Explain.
> The answer, of course would be Yes, if the branch was in bloom, because 
> the
> Distinguishing Feature, that is the red blooms, would be evident.  If it
> were not
> in bloom, it could not be exibited.
>
> My problem is that more and more often I will get maybe one correct answer
> from each ten students.  The answers I got this spring were so depressing
> that
> I have resolved to make a greater effort to get the point across.  I 
> wonder
> if
> some of you knowledgable people can give me a clue as to where the problem
> lies.  To me, the concept is quite simple, but why do so many seem to miss
> it?
> These students are usually pretty alert to Horticultural matters - after
> all, it is a
> fairly specialized series.  I would really appreciate any thoughts on the
> matter.
> Auralie
>
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