Robert:
Do you have these statistics at hand?
1) How many taxa, approximately, do the Dutch register per year? Are there any statistics about how many they decline to register after testing?
2) How many bulbous cutlvars of the sort which we presume would not interest the Dutch would the AIS be taking on, roughly? I mean, I'd be surprised to hear it was as many as fifty?
3) How many of these are likely to be North American originations? Where else do they come from? UK? Scandinavia? Europe?
4) How likely is it that non AIS originators of these irises would actually be interested in AIS awards?
I'm just asking.
AMW
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Pries <robertpries@embarqmail.com>
To: iris-species <iris-species@yahoogroups.com>; Barton, Rodney <rbartontx@yahoo.com>; Walkup, Ken <krw25@cornell.edu>
Sent: Fri, Jan 24, 2014 4:16 pm
Subject: Re: [iris-species] bulbous irises
At present it would be rather hard for bulbous Irises to win the SPEC or SPX award. The first step would be for The AIS registrar to agree to register them. This probably could only be accomplished if we could arrive at a mutual agreement with the KAVB. I do not think this would be impossible. The KAVB is essentially only interested in registering Iris that will be mass produced in the Bulb trade by large corporations.
