Re: Registering
PS it is not the registrar's job to judge plants. His one and only job
is to register them period.
At 11:08 PM 9/20/99 -0400, you wrote:
>It doesn't matter who or why did it its done. Lets not use it as a club.
>
>At 11:01 PM 9/20/99 EDT, you wrote:
>>In a message dated 9/20/1999 9:41:06 PM Central Daylight Time,
>>chick@bridgewoodgardens.com writes:
>>
>><< Registering
>> has no effect on the cost of the plant because the people who determine the
>> price, the buyers and the sellers, do not consider registration as a
factor.
>> Supply and demand determine price and registration does not affect either.
>> >>
>> I hate to be nasty BUT----Chick is absolutely right. The only thing that
>>registration accomplishes is to give the registrar something to do and to
>>give the AHS a reason for paying him. I keep telling you all ==THE
REGISTRAR
>>WILL REGISTER ANYTHING as long as you send in that info and the money.
>>Registration does not mean a hosta is a worthy garden plant. It does not
>>protect the registrant===someone could register the identical plant under
>>another name.
>>
>>Also, many of the registrations have absolutely no information that is
>useful
>>to anyone. Look at them: See how many are described as Tokudama x
>Sieboldiana
>>(or vice versa);OR Pedigree (Parentage) Unknown.
>>
>>The whole scheme of getting the AHS to be the International Registration
>>Authority (forgive me Roger Bowden), was the brainchild of R. Olson. He
>>simply wanted to put another scalp on his belt.
>>
>>Clyde Crockett z5
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>Butch Ragland So. Indiana zone 5
>
>"Conflict is as addictive as nicotine, alcohol, drugs, etc.
>I'm sorry to report that cooperation is not."
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Butch Ragland So. Indiana zone 5
"Conflict is as addictive as nicotine, alcohol, drugs, etc.
I'm sorry to report that cooperation is not."
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