Re: ANSWERS
- To: hosta-open@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: ANSWERS
- From: h*@open.org
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 05:48:17 -0700 (PDT)
Ben:
>>This fall when I get some hosta seeds I will study their
>>germination.
>yOU HAVE NOT STUDIED THEM AND STILL" KNOWS" I AM WRONG!
I do not believe that I said you were wrong. It's just that you
haven't proven to me that you are right. I am willing to concede that
you may be correct IF you would only provide me with some proof. You
keep saying all I have to do is look in any recent book on biology.
Ben, I'm a busy man, I don't have time to look through a thousand
books to find something that will support your view. I've already
looked through one of the great books of plant anatomy and didn't find
anything to support your view. Yet, you REFUSE a simple request to
state the book(s) that support your view, the page numbers and to give
some brief quotations from those sources so that all of us on this
robin know what you are refering to. Is it really so difficult to do
this - or is it more likely that these books really don't exist! You
are making a claim that some references support your view, but yet
you refuse to give us those references and you still want us to
believe you are correct just because you say you are correct! Come on
Ben, I wasn't born yesterday.
>I DID GIVE YOU REFERENCES INCLUDING PAGE NUMBERS EG THE BOOK ON PLANT
>BIOLOGY ( 1997) OF RAVEN I WILL NOT DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN
One book! That's all you have? I don't have Raven and I doubt that
any others on this robin have it either. So Ben, how about doing us
all a big favor and QUOTE the pertinent passages so all of us on this
robin can be educated.
>THERE IS A DIFFERENCE IN STYLE BETWEEN A SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE
>AND AN ARTICLE FOR A HOBBY JOURNAL
I'll agree with you on this point, but that doesn't mean that BAD
science should be any more acceptable in a hobby journal then in a
peer review scientific journal.
When I asked you how you came to the consclusion that a mutated gene
could not have more then 99% of the activity of the original gene you
said "I DID NOT USE 100 PROCENT AS NOT TO CONFUSE IT WITH WILDTYPE."
Unfortunately, you did confuse a lot of people and this is just plain
BAD science. If you didn't want to confuse anyone, then why not
rewrite the sentence rather then make a blank, incorrect statement
that you know is incorrect. There is no excuse for this kind of bad
writing.
>NO MATTER WHAT I SAY YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE ME ANYWAY
That is not true. I'll believe you when you provide the proof. You
tend to make blanket statements that you expect people to believe just
because you say so. Ben, it's one thing to say "given such and such a
situtation it is POSSIBLE that mitotic crossing over is the cause"
compared to your "given such and such a situtation mitotic crossing
over is THE cause." You have absolutely no evidence or proof that
mitotic crossing over ever occured in hostas, yet you make a blanket
statement that mitotic crossing over is responsible for a large number
of hosta sports. Where is the proof, as we sometimes say in America
"where's the beef."
>IT DOES NOT MATTER OR THE COTYL STAYS ABOVE OR BELOW SOIL LEVEL
Now I know you don't know what you are talking about when it comes to
seed germination.
>lILIUM HAS A SINGLE COTYL LIKE HOSTA BUT I DONT KNOW HOW
>THEY LOOK LIKE
You don't know what a lily cotyledon looks like, but yet you know it
has a cotyledon just like a hosta! AMAZING! Can you explain how a
lily cotyledon is just like a hosta cotyledon when you have never seen
a lily cotyledon?
>MOST/ALL THESE CLUES CAN BE DERIVED FROM MY BOOK ON SPORTS.
Your book on sports is mostly useless.
>>You still haven't explained what vegetive seed propagation is.
>THIS IS A MISTAKE/MISPRINT MADE SOMEWHERE
I'll accept that.
>MAYBE NEXT TIME YOU CAN COMMENT ABOUT THE MAIN MESSAGE OF THE
>ARTICLE: IDENTITY /SIMILARITY OF SPORTS INSTEAD OF NICKPICKING
Actually, I would like to get to that topic, but it is difficult to do
because your rules for sports in hosta are so full of holes and there
are so many errors in your articles that it is difficult to figure out
just what you are trying to say.
>ps WHERE DID YOU PUBLISH ALL INFORMATION GLEANED IN 20 YEARS WITH
>AGGRESSIVE PROPAGATION?
I have not published it. After 20 years of propagating daylilies, and
now hostas, I've learned a few things. These are mostly trade
secretes that are not discussed very much outside the nursery trade,
but are available for those who want to make the effort to find them.
Anyone with a good knowledge of horticulture and botany should be able
to figure them out without too much trouble.
Joe Halinar
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