Re: New Rules
- To: hosta-open@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: New Rules
- From: C*@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 17:45:57 EDT
In a message dated 10/3/1999 11:01:49 AM Central Daylight Time,
chick@bridgewoodgardens.com writes:
<< If the editor has a good picture of a good
hosta that may not be registered, what benefit is there to the reader to
refuse to
publish it or to refuse to identify the plant by its name? >>
If one goes thru the list of registered cultivars (hostas) there are quite a
few with the parentage=="Parentage Unknown". I think it somewhat strange to
publish a pic of such a one with the caption reading: " Seedling. Parentage
unknown."
Why not put in bold face a WARNING on each color page, the following:
UNREGISTERED HOSTAS PICTURED HERE ARE SOMETIMES IDENTIFIED BY THE USE OF A
FANCY CULTIVAR NAME IN PARENTHESES. SUCH IS A NODEM NUDUM.
So, the cutline could read: " Unregistered Seedling, r x w ('Dubacks Dupage
Parkys Wonder'), seen here in the garden of the hybridizer, Chick Clyde
Bridgekett IV."
Better journalism; more informative; more in furtherance of the Purposes of
the AHS.
The AHS does not need the draconian rules that Kevin so nicely described;
rather, it needs a new Board and Executive Committee--- (and a new Registrar).
Clyde Crockett z5
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