Re: sports

Dear hosta fans
I hereby notify all of hostadom that I was the first person to discover
that hostas can be divided.  It was some time back.  I will be requiring
each of you that divides a hosta to send me a 10 cent royalty.

Since Ben discovered sports, I think it only fair that any of us that
play sports, send him a dime.  Fortunately, I only play the bongos, and I
think Desi Arnez discovered them.  He's dead.

Chick

zonneveld wrote:

> Dear Hosta Fans
> Everybody can check in the hosta journal that I was the
> first to explain in detail to the hosta community what a sport is . I
> am happy to see that others have learned from it and are at least in
> part able to reproduce it, although without any reference.
> To answer the  specific question about the difference between a
> sport and a mutation::
> First the definition:
> A sport is a shoot deviating from the mother plant.
>  A sport CAN be due to a mutation but rarely is. It is mostly due to
> a mitotic recombination or chimeral rearrangements . It is for sure a
> sport due to a mutation if a green/blue plant changes to a variegated
> one. See my Rule of thumb for sports in the hosta journal and in my
> book on sport of  hosta, where instead of a number the plants have a
> shorthand for color like we = white edge.
> Ben J.M.Zonneveld
> Clusius lab pobox 9505
> 2300 RA Leiden
> The Netherlands
> Zonneveld@RULbim.LeidenUniv.NL
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