Re: Tell-Tale TC
- To: hosta-open@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Tell-Tale TC
- From: "* O* <e*@ibm.net>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 13:42:01 -0400
At 07:53 AM 6/25/98 EDT, you wrote:
>Gerry,
>
>Many of the best named and registered hosta around today are in fact
>sports/mutations. In fact 'Great Expectations' is itself a sport of
>sieboldiana 'Elegans' found in a garden here in England. When a sport is
>found it can/should be removed from the mother plant and evaluated for a
>number of years, to be sure it is stable and worthy of naming. If in time
this
>new sport throws up a division that is the same as the original mother
plant ,
>this division should be removed.
>
>Glen UK
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Thanks, Glen. You and Diane are bringing me up to speed quite nicely...
Gerry>
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