Diane, if you have ever read posts on Dave's Garden, you could understand why I would not do that.
A person has an iris they can't identify. Normally a bearded, but not always.
They post a picture on Dave's Garden and twenty people come to the rescue with what they think it is. The poster picks one and says, "it's this one!" Oh come on. Now it gets passed to friends, neighbors, and traded on Daves Garden, which is a huge site, under the new name.
I never wish to contribute to that.
On Cubits our rule is that if someone posts a picture, you may make suggestions what the iris might be, but it's strongly suggested to the poster to then purchase that suggested look alike, and grow it side by side to the other, and make a determination that way. Of course, who actually buys the second iris to do that? They will spend their money for a new iris first, but we try.
I have three large clumps of not Gerald. I will label it as such, and it will be mine, all mine, LOL.
--- In i*@yahoogroups.com, Diane Whitehead <voltaire@...> wrote:
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> Polly
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> I have happily bought unnamed plants, so I don't think you should
> withdraw your plant from your catalogue. Just name it "mystery". No,
> that wouldn't do. I can see it carrying on through the years as Iris
> "Mystery".
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> Maybe "lost label".
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> Diane
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> On 7-Dec-10, at 11:24 AM, ChatOWhitehall@... wrote:
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> > I think you are to be commended on being scrupulous about the
> > identity and provenance of what you sell.
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