Re: Cultivars

**t*@earthlink.net**

Did anyone ever answer this?

A "cultivar" may or may not be a hybrid....Many cultivars are simply selections and not hybrids at all. Not all hybrids become cultivars either. In horticulture a cultivar is usually a plant that is only propagated asexually, whereas many hybrid plants are grown from seed. Cultivar, to my mind anyhow, is actually an important word.

Tom Ogren

-----Original Message-----
>From: Catriona Erler <catriona@catrionatudorerler.com>
>Sent: Feb 25, 2013 3:36 PM
>To: Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: [GWL] Cultivars
>
>Reminds me of the wonderful quote from H.E. Bates' book A Love of Flowers which was published in 1974, the year he died.  By that time he was crusty and opinionated!  Here's the quote:  "(I note, by the way, a growing habit among gardening writers of using the detestable word 'cultivar', which always sounds to me like an ugly Russian cross between 'samovar' and a collective farm.  I consequently consign it to the muck-heap with such contemporary horrors as teach-in, fenestration, escalate, proliferate, reflation, where I hope it will rot.)"
>
>I guess before they just used the term hybrid.  Is there a difference?
>
>Catriona
>On Feb 25, 2013, at 2:30 PM, frielster@aol.com wrote:
>
>> Single quotes indicate the variety or cultivar (shorthand for "cultivated variety" name. 
>
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