Sean I have found that the iris people I have met wither by chance at a regional or though the nationals have en-total being not only giving of their time, talent and knowledge, they spend years trying to learn just that much more about the iris in what ever form it come in. Even in adversarial situations such as this I have learned many things I did not know and I will thank you for that.
I am a beginner and if an iris is registered it is up to the hybridizer to determine classification. Of nine seedlings from an Arilbred OGB and a standard dwarf which would produce OGB_ seedling the classification was not for one of the seedlings so I registered it as an IB. It did not have enough aril traits in my opinion to be registered as an OGB-. That is my choice.
From what i understand from this list and many others those historic being changed are those that no long fit into the class they were originally registered and introduced. I might be wrong (bad habit of mine) but that is how I understood it. I think the Sections (dwarf, median species etc.) are doing a wonderful job getting some of the historics into the registration venue and on twiki with the best information available. If it is not on twiki or in the AIS internet register there are so many sources on the internet today to find the answers you seek.
Please do not rely only on one source for there are too many to be believed. I think the Twiki has a wonderful START in producing a living site that can be changed and added to but it is not finished. There are so many people that give of their time to get it as accurate as possible but it is a work in progress. I would hope that like other iris people you will give of your time and talents to all the sources of information available.
MHO
Anita
-----Original Message-----
From: "Sean A. Zera"
Sent: Jan 1, 2011 1:46 PM
To: iris-species@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [iris-species] Spec-X?
God forbid that anyone would try to learn something from other people
on this forum, instead of earning that knowledge themselves.
Anita Moran
Pilmore Gardens
USDA 6B
Maryland
AIS, ASI, FSKIS
