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Re: Names

At 03:04 PM 08/21/1999 -0500, LoWilla Wilson wrote:
>I'm not sure I know how to ask this question.  What I want to know is how to
>determine what the name should be when it doesn't match the Mother plant.
>It can look like another plant with a different plant but comes from a
>different Mother.  Should it be the one it looks identical to even though
>they come from different sources?  Does any of that make sense?

what i do is separate the changeling and if it is nice, i hope it will go
on to produce consistently for a long time. this has happened to me. in
fact, it is one of the high points in my wretched horticultural life!

and after a while i slap a cultivar name on it. not a cute  catchy one,
just something to help me remember its origins. and then i describe it in
normal English in a catalog. this is not the same as publishing a real name
as a taxonomist would do.

I do this only after the plant has displayed some time of growing true to
its self and not reverting or going on to some other kind of thing.

hermine
NOT A TAXONOMIST!!
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